Business embraces big people.

A fat tax could raise money and help get people eating more healthily, says a director at the University of Oxford.

I'm sorry to say that the people running for president have remained silent on one of the burning issues of our time: How fat is 'too fat' to fly? Maybe they have bigger things to think about. Or, maybe since most of them fly in private chartered jets, it just hasn't hit their radar. But on some level, I bet they relate.

A hundred years ago, food was simple. People didn't worry about trans fats in their cheese crackers or artificial colors in their fruit snacks. They didn't have to—they were eating real cheese and real fruit. And food companies used to focus more on making food than on enticing people to buy it. That's why supermarkets are so daunting today: It's easy to make a false move, even when you're trying to eat healthy.

Researchers discover how body's good fat can burn other fat.