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	<title>The Downey Obesity Report &#187; ECONOMICS</title>
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	<description>No other human condition combines obesity&#039;s prevalence and prejudice; sickness and stigma; death and discrimination.</description>
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		<title>Competitive Food Sales in Schools Not Affect Obesity</title>
		<link>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2012/02/competitive-food-sales-in-schools-not-affect-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MorganDowney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Childhood Obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DAILY DOWNEY]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dietary pattern]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most US middle and high schools sell soft drinks, candy and chips to their students. These practices have been widely criticized as contributing to childhood and adolescent obesity. However, a new study followed  approximately 19,450 children from fifth to eight grade. Researchers found the children’s weight gain was not associated with the introduction or the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Would Have Thought?</title>
		<link>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/12/who-would-have-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MorganDowney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DAILY DOWNEY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schools & Children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gee, teen-agers want to eat junk food? Eating advice of experts and parents rejected? No way, right? Well, if you were skeptical before about school meal reforms, this article will be right up your alley. It shows the ‘creativity’ of teenagers in frustrating the nutritional advice of adults.  L.A. schools&#8217; healthful school lunches panned by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Struggle with Obesity-Related Issues, Mandates</title>
		<link>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/12/republicans-struggle-with-mandates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/12/republicans-struggle-with-mandates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MorganDowney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DAILY DOWNEY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food stamps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Metz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mandates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Bachmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Santorum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SNAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soft drinks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/?p=2602</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are following the debate over health care reform and the Republican presidential race, you know that governmental mandates are a hot issue. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)  made Texas Governor Rick Perry’s mandate that girls in Texas receive the HPV vaccine a big issue. Michele Bachmann’s mistakes pile up &#8211; The Washington Post Now comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicalizing Obesity</title>
		<link>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/12/medicalizing-obesity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/12/medicalizing-obesity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MorganDowney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DAILY DOWNEY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ECONOMICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HEALTH & STIGMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Blackburn]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/?p=2439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[George Blackburn, M.D., one of the founders of the obesity field, has written a short but insightful article on the pros and cons of medicalizing obesity. See VM &#8212; Medicalizing Obesity: Individual, Economic, and Medical Consequences, Dec 11 &#8230; Virtual Mentor]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do Obese Employees Earn Less? Productivity or Bias?</title>
		<link>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/11/why-do-obese-employees-earn-less-productivity-or-bias/</link>
		<comments>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/11/why-do-obese-employees-earn-less-productivity-or-bias/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MorganDowney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DAILY DOWNEY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment and Wage Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Cawley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wage penalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weigh bias]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/?p=2401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been well documented that obese workers are paid less than their co-workers for the same job. But is this because employers are deducting for lost productivity and higher health care costs or because of bias against persons with obesity. The best expert in the field lends his conclusion at The Obesity Wage Penalty &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staggering New Cost Projections for Obesity</title>
		<link>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/11/staggering-new-cost-projections-for-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MorganDowney</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global economic perspective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Type 2 diabetes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[utilization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/?p=2346</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Simulation model predicts increased health care costs and utilization in rising obese populations in the United States and the United Kingdom, predicting 65 million more obese in the US and 11 million more in the UK, meaning 6 to 8.5 million cases of diabetes, 5.7 to 7.3 million cases of heart disease, 492,000 to 669,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Donuts the Next Fruit?</title>
		<link>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/11/are-donuts-the-next-fruit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/11/are-donuts-the-next-fruit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MorganDowney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DAILY DOWNEY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commodity programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[french fries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Dairy Council]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/?p=2324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No doubt by now you have heard that House Republicans attached a provision to the government funding bill to un-do a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulation calling for more nutritious school lunches, paid for by the USDA. The politics of pizza (and ketchup, too) &#8211; Charleston Charleston Democrat &#124; Examiner.com There is more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War on the Obese &#8211; More Employers To Impose Penalties</title>
		<link>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/11/war-on-the-obese-employers-impose-penalties/</link>
		<comments>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/11/war-on-the-obese-employers-impose-penalties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MorganDowney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Costs of obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DAILY DOWNEY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employer Incentives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[penalties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safeway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/?p=2287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reed Abelson of the New York Times reports that that higher penalties for employees who are obese are coming. He writes, “Policies that impose financial penalties on employees have doubled in the last two years to 19 percent of 248 major American employers recently surveyed. Next year, Towers Watson, the benefits consultant that conducted the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Magazine blogger calls for abusing persons with obesity</title>
		<link>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/11/time-magazine-blogger-calls-for-abusing-persons-with-obesity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/11/time-magazine-blogger-calls-for-abusing-persons-with-obesity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MorganDowney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DAILY DOWNEY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment and Wage Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HEALTH & STIGMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NEWS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shannon Brownlee]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/?p=2270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Time magazine blogger, Shannon Brownlee wants us to get serious about obesity with a ‘novel’ idea:  insulting,  discriminating and penalizing persons with obesity. Boy, bet that will help. Shannon Brownlee: Let&#8217;s Stop Being Passive About Obesity &#124; TIME Ideas &#124; TIME.com (Ever notice that the folks who espouse the most mean-spirited attacks on persons with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s New in Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan-stan or the serious picture of global obesity</title>
		<link>http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/2011/11/whats-new-in-ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan-stan-or-the-serious-picture-of-global-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MorganDowney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DAILY DOWNEY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global economic perspective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NEWS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diabetes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metabolic syndrome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nepal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uzbekistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.downeyobesityreport.com/?p=2217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans tend to think that obesity is a home-grown phenomenon, a reflection of our consumer-oriented society. Yet, obesity is a global phenomenon and not only in other Western industrialized countries. In fact, obesity is occurring throughout the world at a rapid pace and in a lot of countries you might not expect. Here’s a sample [...]]]></description>
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