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Cut calories in the New Year

Getting healthy
Several Portland restaurants will offer menu items at the price of their calorie count on Tuesday, January 3 — a nod toward the city's obesity prevention initiative and recent efforts to get local, non-chain eateries to provide nutrition information to their diners.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | December 28, 2011

Strong-arming the First Amendment

Plus activist judges and fat versus gay
President Barack Obama is a bright guy. In fact, he's a former constitutional-law professor.
By EDITORIAL | December 15, 2010

Review: Lbs.

A double-wide in the woods
With obesity now a pop-culture as well as a medical issue, Lbs. offers insight — as well as laughs and heartstring tugging — into the struggles of a food addict.
By BETSY SHERMAN | April 06, 2010

Hearty and sweet

Sonny's finds the right mix of flavors and textures
America's war on obesity is going nowhere.
By BRIAN DUFF | March 17, 2010

Fat city

Talking Politics
You wouldn't buy a suit from a tailor who wears ill-fitting clothes. You wouldn't take suggestions for summer-reading from somebody who's illiterate. You wouldn't cast your ballot for a candidate who's completely clueless.
By AL DIAMON | July 15, 2009

By | January 01, 0001

The other side of the mountain

New winter-sport challenges for snow-klutzes and hotshots
If you don’t ski or snowboard, winter is the longest, loneliest season.
By ASHLEY RIGAZIO | December 10, 2007

Good Shaq, bad Shaq

Is O’Neal’s fat-camp show kind or cruel?
Say this for Miami Heat center Shaquille O’Neal: in Shaq’s Big Challenge , signs abound that his intentions are good.
By ADAM REILLY | July 10, 2007

Changing concentrations

As the world shrinks, schools expand their majors and programs
Thomas Friedman from the New York Times writes that “the world is flat.” Are you too old for school?: Even at age 30, your brain is different from the average student’s. By Samantha Henig
By SEETHA NARAYAN | January 24, 2007

The fat of the land

Does the obsession with losing weight do more harm than good?
A few months ago, for Jenna Broccolo’s 15th birthday, she and her family took a trip to New York City to attend a festival in Little Italy. Jenna, a sophomore at Westerly High School, asked her mom for one more gift: a full-length mirror. “You go, girl!” said her mom, Ann Marie Broccolo.
By | January 17, 2006