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NASHVILLE -- A first-time look at diabetes and obesity at the county level shows that in Tennessee, conditions go from bad to worse.Williamson County, a wealthy suburb of Nashville , had the best showing -- but even there, 8.8 percent of the adults have been diagnosed with diabetes, and almost a quarter of the population is obese. The state's worst rates belonged to Hardeman County, where 37.5 ...
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- About 40 years of health improvements from declining numbers of smokers may be undermined because too many U.S. adults are obese, researchers said.
MT. PLEASANT, SC (WCSC) - Slow Food Charleston, the local chapter of the international non-profit by the same name, was at the Whole Foods in Mt. Pleasant Tuesday to raise awareness about childhood obesity.
Palo Alto students can get fit, have fun and earn college credit in a first of it's kind program. At Palo Alto College students can now get college credit for physical conditioning without ever setting foot in a gym. In fact, they don't even have to leave their home. Palo Alto is the first in the nation to offer an online Wii Fit conditioning course. "We have a high rate of obesity, Bexar ...
At Palo Alto College students can now get college credit for physical conditioning without ever setting foot in a gym. In fact, they don't even have to leave their home. Palo Alto is the first in the nation to offer an online Wii Fit conditioning course. "We have a high rate of obesity, Bexar County has 60% in some areas, it's really epidemic," said Anna Bustamante, the Academic Chair of the ...
A small study of middle-aged women finds that "guilt-ridden dieters," impulsive eaters and those too busy to focus on food are the most likely to show signs of obesity.
Obesity has emerged as a significant threat to public health throughout the developed world.
There were some positive strokes for Tennessee in the recent report of "America's Health Rankings" that put the state 44th among states in the nation's overall health picture, but those items were overshadowed by poor ratings on obesity and smoking.Tennessee ranked 45th in smoking and 47th in obesity.Smoking and obesity cause diseases that are preventable and can prove costly in terms of ...
How do fruit flies get high cholesterol and become obese? The same way as people do -- by eating a diet that's too rich in fats.
Obesity remains a significant health problem in Santa Cruz County. The recently released Community Assessment Project showed that 56 percent of adults in the county are either overweight or obese.
University of Michigan and Harvard Researchers Find That The U.S. Population Won't Live Longer Because Even Though They've Quit Smoking, More are Overweight
Study says weight concerns will rise as smoking rate declines
Keeping Kids from Getting Heavy
As Americans gear up for the holiday season this month, Dr. Sasson Moulavi, a Board Certified Bariatric Physician, cautions that overweight and obese patients not give in to temptation and forget their dieting.
A new study reveals the risks of "white-hat bias," a tendency by obesity researchers to distort information about products such as sugar-sweetened beverages or practices like breastfeeding, regardless of the facts, when the distortions are perceived to serve good ends. The name for the bias is a reference to do-good characters often portrayed in early Hollywood Westerns as cowboys who wore white ...
With child obesity rates and adult chronic disease on the rise in the United States, Americans are facing a future in which today's children could be far less fit and healthy than their parents.
