A blog about Food & Eating, Health & Wellness, and Kern County.
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Your top tunes to tone up to Bill bans weight, height discrimination Welcome to the 'calorie valley' Study: Obesity, smoking reduce some women's life expectancy Taking away recess is 'cruel and unusual' Schlosser gives some food for thought Author talks fries, farming, immigration Who's to blame? Bill: Do not feed the obese In her words January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 This blog accompanies The Califiornian's series of stories on obesity. To read the stories, go to www.bakersfield.com/weigheddown. 
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A Massachusetts bill aims to add weight and height to the list of characteristics people cannot use to discriminate with.
From the Chicago Tribune:
Currently, people can seek protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act, but they must prove their obesity is a disability and, in some cases, that it is caused by physical traits beyond their control.
"Right now, fat is just a marker of bad character, an undesirable personal trait that people bring on themselves," said...
In reporting the story yesterday about Kern being No. 3 for its concentration of fast food and convenience stores, I came across a couple of buzz words.
Fast food jungle. Food desert.
Considering we live in neither a jungle nor desert — well, most of us anyway — I came up with my own: calorie valley.
A new study released today has Kern third, among the most populous California counties, with 5.23 times as many fast-food restaurants and convenience stores than supermarkets and...
For once, we're not among the worst.
A new study has found that women's life expectancy declined significantly in 180 U.S. counties from 1983 to 1999.
And, happily, Kern County isn't among those.
Most of the counties are in the deep South and Appalachia, according to the study, which was done by researchers at Harvard University, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Washington.
There wasn’t a big change in our life expectancy over the last 40 years,...
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