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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.
Two new studies suggest a correlation between obesity and Medicare costs. Is it worth paying people to lose weight?
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.
Gaining weight is a problem for many, if not most of us, around Thanksgiving, but, for increasing numbers of Americans, obesity is a year-round problem with major health implications. Obesity is not just caused by eating too much and watching too much TV, said researchers and doctors at the recent Regis College Leadership Series on Health. There are many environmental factors that are sometimes ...
DECATUR - With unhealthy messages and habits inundatingchildren's lives from all directions and helping raise rates ofchildhood obesity and type 2 diabetes, a local group is fostering amore health-conscious community.
A first-ever, county-by-county survey of obesity paints another dim picture for South Carolina and the Southeast.
The most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes the first county-by-county survey of obesity nationwide, and it found that South Carolina has some of the highest rates of obesity and diabetes.
The biggest overhaul in its 35-year history leaves the federal Women, Infants and Children nutrition program with a dual mission: fight childhood hunger and childhood obesity at the same time.
Ndukwe tells students to get off the couch.
Activity and healthy eating habits are replacing obesity for little ones at one preschool. A new program, "I am moving, I am learning," offers lifestyle changes for 899 children ages 6 months to 4 years old in the Economic Opportunity Authority's Head Start and Early Head Start programs. It tries to get the message home to parents. "If we catch children early, we don't have obese adults ...
One out of five type 2 diabetics is morbidly obese -- approximately 100 pounds or more overweight -- a new study has found.
The immune systems of HIV patients who are obese don't respond to antiretroviral therapy as well as do those of people of normal weight.
Perhaps you're working extra hard these days to hang onto your job, or if you're looking for work, you're using every avenue you know to find a job. In either case, better check out your waistline if you're serious about having a job in the future.
The wOw women weigh in on the growing problem of obesity and health care Question of the Day | 11/23/2009 2:00 am Joan Juliet Buck | 11/23/2009 1:00 am Joan Juliet Buck Solves the Health-Care Issue As the obese are obese because they can afford to eat only mass-made food ...
SPRINGFIELD - The obesity rate of children in Clark County is higher than the state and national rates.
The FDA is fickle when it comes to weight-loss drugs.
