Read a March 25, 2011, article from NBC News about the link between attending religious events and obesity in young adults.

Visit the website of the Material History of American Religion Project to read a paper by Daniel Sack on the meanings behind the church potluck supper. See also an interview with Sack about his book, Whitebread Protestants.

Read a series of articles on obesity published by The New York Times in 2000.

A 2009 survey found that medical costs associated with obesity were $147 billion–up from $75 billion in 2003.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains a website charting overweight and obesity trends in the United States among adults and children from 1985 to the present.

The Argentina Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center is an organization that promotes Hinduism and Hindu Dharma throughout Argentina. The website offers current news articles, additional associations on Hinduism and resources on celebrations and festivals.

Irwin Altman is a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and the co-author of Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

The Hindu Society of Berbice is a nonprofit religious organization in Guyana that promotes and preserves Sanatan Dharma and Hindu culture by engaging its community in Hindu projects, programs and activities.

James J. Hughes is the executive director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, as well as a bioethicist and sociologist at the University of Massachusetts Boston.