You may soon be fired for being fat.

If you’re 40 or over and your waist line exceeds 33.5 inches, you’ve broken the law in Japan. In April 2008, the Japanese government passed legislation requiring all citizens over the age of 40 to have their waists measured annually. If a man’s waist is more than 33.5 inches and a woman’s more than 35.5 [...]

Mystery E. Coli Outbreak at Oklahoma Restaurant

Health officials in Oklahoma released an April 9 report indicating an E. coli bacteria linked to hundreds of illnesses and one death may have come from a water well; but since no specimen of the bacteria was identified in the restaurant, officials are still uncertain how the bacteria made its way into the eating establishment, [...]

The Fat Duck Re-opens Under a Veil of Mystery

Fat Duck Reopens

“I am delighted that the health protection agency and the local environmental health office have given us the all clear to open the restaurant,” Fat Duck owner Blumenthal said in a statement. “Obviously we are overjoyed to be able to get back to business as normal.”
Business as normal isn’t quite the expression I [...]