Uh oh: "We've heard obesity can be 'spread' between friends when we copy each other's eating habits, but a new study in mice suggests obesity could actually be infectious. That's right, infectious. As in, something you can catch. In the study, mice engineered to have a particular immune deficiency developed fatty liver disease and got fatter when fed a Western-style diet. But strikingly, when these immune-deficient mice were put in the same cage as healthy mice, the healthy mice started to come down with symptoms of liver disease, and also got fatter."

"Over the years, researchers have found that weight gain and moderate to severe acne — a problem that affects about one in five teenagers — go hand in hand, particularly among young women. While it is not entirely clear why, excess hormones most likely play a role."

You would think all the antibiotics in the fast food would even things out, but maybe they do things differently in Britain: "The obesity epidemic in children could be cutting the effectiveness of penicillin treatment – because the doses were worked out for a slimmer generation. Guidelines have remained unchanged for almost 50 years, but children are now up to 20 per cent heavier. Experts want the guidelines to be revised amid concern that some children are getting too little medication to treat their ailments." Speaking of Britons, more than three quarters of the pictures they post of themselves to Facebook show them under the influence of alcohol. In the rest they are just stroking knives affectionately.

Oh, man, I am so going out for fried chicken tonight! Or, more likely, ordering in. THANK YOU SCIENCE!

Here you will find 28 synonyms for fatness. Your goal is to arrange them in order of formality. The winner gets to be an administrator in the Miami-Dade public school district.

In their ever-widening search for somebody who is not Mitt Romney, conservatives are now souring on Rick Perry and turning their desperate, flailing hopes toward Chris Christie. For his part, Christie says he's not running (but Republicans note that he keeps acting the part). READ MORE

The next time you see a smiling child, that symbol of innocence and potential and happiness in a world where none of those things ever come to any meaningful fruition, look closely at his or her teeth: They are full of stem cells. Expensive, valuable stem cells that can be harvested to treat diabetes and Parkinson's and other diseases. And what are these selfish children doing with them? Eating Swedish fish and talking back. We should rip out all those teeth now, before they wise up and start keeping their mouths shut. Or maybe we don't have to! Turns out human fat is loaded up with stem cells as well. We may be running out of natural resources, but there is a GLUT of human fat in the American market alone. Once we harness the technology to turn all that tubbiness into treatments, no one will ever be sick again. So chow down, folks, you're doing it for Science!