It was always going to be unwise naming a restaurant that glorifies unhealthy food the Heart Attack Grill.

And on Saturday the inevitable happened when a customer suffered a cardiac arrest in the chain’s Las Vegas branch.  An onlooker captured video of paramedics wheeling the unidentified man, thought to be in his 40s, out of the fast-food diner.He was midway through eating a 6,000-calorie Triple Bypass Burger when he began experiencing chest pains.

The restaurant chain – founded in 2005 using the catchphrase ‘Taste Worth Dying For!’ – is run by a former nutritionist ‘Doctor’ Jon Basso who, remarkably, used to run a Jenny Craig weight loss diet centre.

He denied the incident was an elaborate publicity stunt.

Mr Basso told Fox News: ‘The gentleman could barely talk. He was sweating, suffering.

‘I actually felt horrible for him because the tourists were taking photos of him as if it were some type of stunt.

‘Even with our own morbid sense of humour, we would never pull a stunt like that.’

The Heart Attack Grill sells calorie-laden fare with names such as Quadruple Bypass Burgers and Flatline Fries.

Meals can exceed 8,000 calories. The recommended daily intake is 2,000 calories for women and 2,500 for men.

The Triple Bypass Burger contains three slabs of meat, 12 rashes of bacon, cheese, red onion, sliced tomato and the Heart Attack Grill’s own ‘unique special sauce’. And that’s before taking into account the accompanying ‘Flatliner Fries’, cooked in pure lard, and a giant soft drink.

Accentuating the medical theme, waitresses dressed as nurses deliver the artery-clogging food.

A sign at the entrance to an Arizona restaurant reads: ‘Go away. If you come in this place, it’s going to kill you.’

But the chain has provoked widespread anger with promotions including offering free food to morbidly obese customers.

Heart Attack Grill customer in Las Vegas suffers cardiac arrest eating Triple Bypass Burger | Mail Online

New research shows overeating can increase the elderly’s risk of memory loss.

This new study shows older people who eat 2,100 or more calories a day had more than double the risk of memory loss compared to people who ate fewer than 1,500 calories a day.

And experts say the more calories older people consume, the more likely they are to have what’s called mild cognitive impairment, or MCI.

Doctors say MCI is the transition between normal forgetfulness caused by aging and early Alzheimer’s disease.

Study: Overeating Linked to Memory Loss in Elderly – WBAY-TV Green Bay-Fox Cities-Northeast Wisconsin News

Fat Thanks to Sona S. for the tip!

Obese Americans in the military are a national security hazard and
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama wants to see that change.

Obama, who has led a healthy eating and fitness program for
children for two years, lent her voice on Thursday to the
military’s efforts to overhaul the food it serves.

In an event at Little Rock Air Force Base, Obama announced a
new Pentagon obesity and nutritional awareness campaign that
will change nutrition standards across the services for the
first time in 20 years.

The changes will bring more fruits, vegetables, whole grains
and food choices that are lower in fat to 1.45 million troops a
day at all 1,100 American military dining facilities in the
coming months.

Pentagon attacks obesity with new food choices

The nation’s leanest state is taking its sweet time as it considers a proposal aimed at getting junk food out of schools.

A Colorado House committee was expected to discuss a bill that represents the nation’s toughest regulations meant to keep trans fat away from students, but lawmakers Thursday delayed the hearing without explanation.

The bill would forbid trans fat in cafeteria lunches — but it wouldn’t stop there.

The proposed ban would apply to snacks in vending machines, bake sale goodies and popular “a la carte” items on lunch lines such as ice creams or pizza, requiring any such treats to be prepared without artery-clogging trans fats.

Colorado lawmakers delay hearing on school trans fat ban

Should sugar be regulated like alcohol? Thats the premise of a new position paper, published today in the journal Nature by three leading obesity researchers from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.

They argue that added sugar in all forms — sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup alike — is as perilous to public health as a controlled substance like alcohol. Bolstering their argument with statistics on obesity and other chronic disease, as well as evidence that our bodies process sugar in a way that is harmful to our health, they advocate for regulation to temper sugar consumption worldwide.

Toxic Sugar: Should We Regulate It Like Alcohol?

First lady Michelle Obama cajoled Jay Leno into nibbling on apples, sweet potato fries and a pizza made with eggplant, green peppers and zucchini on the “Tonight Show,” breaking his long-held aversion for all-things-healthy in his diet.

Leno once told a magazine he hadnt eaten a vegetable since 1969, and he insisted he tasted his last apple in 1984. That didnt dissuade the first lady, whos promoting her “Lets Move!” campaign to get kids excited about fitness and healthy eating habits.

Earlier, Obama poked at him in a Twitter post, hinting shed “get Jay to eat some veggies” on the NBC show.

He did.

“That does smell very good. I assume this is sausage-pepperoni,” the comedian quipped as he eyed the pizza made with a whole-wheat crust.

She convinced Leno to dip an apple in honey made from beehives in the White House garden: “It will help it go down easier,” she assured him.

“White House honey? That sounds bad,” Leno told her. “You know, with a different president that could mean a whole different thing, `a little White House honey.”

First lady pushes Jay Leno to eat healthy foods

Poor street lighting, a lack of footpaths and busy roads can be the difference between walking and getting into the car to run a simple errand. It can also be the difference between being a healthy weight and being overweight.

Lack of green space and accessible public transport are making people overweight, obesity specialists say.

The Heart Foundation’s national director of clinical issues, Rob Grenfell, said if open space was inviting and safe, people would leave the car at home. Even putting a footpath through the end of a cul-de-sac to another street could entice more people to take a daily walk.

”But if you have barriers in front of you, such as poor street crossing, poor lighting … you’re less likely to do these sorts of things,” Dr Grenfell said. ”You simply can’t have physical activity if you don’t have the environment to do it in.”

Planning flaws foster obesity

A 350lb. grandmother claims she will die if she isn’t given a gastric bypass, after her operation was cancelled for the second time.

Louise Hastings, 45, was set to undergo surgery on the NHS at Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham this March in a bid to shed the pounds.

The procedure, which shrinks the stomach and restricts the appetite is designed to help people with life-threatening obesity lose weight. It costs between £10,000 and £15,000.

‘They’re playing with my life’: 25-stone woman fears she will die after gastric bypass op is cancelled for the second time | Mail Online

An Iowa woman has given birth to a boy weighing 13 pounds and 13 ounces – without the aid of surgery.

Asher Stewardson was born Thursday at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, measuring 23 1/2 inches long. Fifteen months ago, his brother, Judah, arrived weighing 12 pounds and an ounce at birth.

Mercy officials say only a tenth of 1 percent of all newborns weigh more than 11 pounds at birth.

My Way News – Nearly 14-pound baby boy born in Des Moines

Turns out obesity is in the eye of the beholder. Whether you’re diagnosed as obese is supposed to depend on your own body-mass index — but a new study shows that it can also depend on your doctor’s.

Physicians who were overweight or obese were far less likely to diagnose obese patients than physicians at a more normal weight, according to research published this month in the journal Obesity.

Are you obese? Might depend on whether your doctor is, too – latimes.com