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Vigorous exercise may be an especially good way to keep kids lean, but sitting around, in and of itself, doesn't appear to have a major role in making them fat, new research shows.
Signs promoting healthier eating are posted on the doors of Chicken Out Rotisserie in Bethesda. Montgomery County had the lowest obesity rate in Maryland, at 16.8 percent of its population.
Anti-Obesity Treatments Report - Analysis & Forecasts 2009-2024. Obesity has been described as a 'public health time-bomb'. In 2005, the World Health Organization estimated that approximately 400 million individuals are obese. Prevalence of obesity is rising worryingly in many countries, despite campaigns emphasising the link between being overweight and contracting diabetes. [PR.com - May 30 ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaskans are losing the battle of the bulge. A Centers for Disease Control study says Alaska is the most overweight state this side of Texas. The study looked at the obesi...
In prevalence to obesity, Pennsylvania currently ranks 36th among states with 32.6 percentage of the population being obese, according to America's Health Rankings . If Pennsylvanians were rewarded for things like low body mass indexes and cholesterol levels through a discount by their health insurance providers, would they be encouraged to, as I like to say, “get it right, get it tight?”
It’s all in the fun - and it’s all about the kids. Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Stephenville hosted its fourth annual Fun Run Saturday. Join our Premium Online Membership to view the rest of the story.
Hundreds have undergone brain surgery for problems like depression, anxiety, even obesity.
The state of Colorado has the lowest obesity rate in the nation at 18.5 percent, but the majority of counties in the southeast portion of the state are above the state average.
A breakthrough paper published in Nature in December 2006 reported that microbial populations in the gut are different between obese and lean people, and that when the obese people lost weight their microflora reverted back to that observed in a lean person, suggesting that obesity may have a microbial component.
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Two new studies suggest a correlation between obesity and Medicare costs. Is it worth paying people to lose weight?
The public forum is entitled ‘Sizing up Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity’ and will see the presentation of new research and discuss the “statutory and constitutional issues surrounding governmental regulation of food marketing.”
A visit from Suze Orman gives the contestants (past and present) lots to chew on
Both the House and Senate bills mandate calorie counts at fast-food restaurants.
Dear Alaska, Time to take a cold, clear look in the mirror. The Centers for Disease Control says you're kind of fat. Especially on the rural edges of the state where obesity rates are some of the worst in the Western United States.
A new CDC survey breaks down obesity rates by county for the first time, and the new research shows South Carolina's rates are among the highest in the nation.
