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SPRINGFIELD - Mayor Domenic J. Sarno announced the appointment of an 18-member leadership council Friday to promote wellness and combat obesity. The Mass in Motion-Springfield Wellness Leadership Council was announced during a press conference at Springfield College.
The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that... Obesity - Appalachia - Diabetes mellitus - United States - Health
A new study by the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease found that 33.9 percent of Ohioans are currently obese and that number is expected to rise to 50.0 percent by 2018!
If Congress wishes to control costs in health care, they must put the obesity epidemic at the top of the agenda. Why? Because as much...
If Americans continue to pack on pounds, obesity will cost the USA about $344 billion in annual medical-related expenses by 2018, eating up about 21% of health-care spending, says the first analysis to estimate the future medical costs of obesity.
As Congress Seeks to Lower Health Care Costs, New Report Finds Obesity Costs Will Quadruple Over the Next Decade Without Action WASHINGTON, Nov.
After a year of nutrition and exercise programs, many Redondo Beach schoolchildren are officially skinnier. That's the good news. The bad news is that nearly one-third of them, or 28 percent, are still overweight or considered at risk for obesity.
Not only is obesity bad for you, it's expensive. America's expanding waistlines will cost about $344-billion in medical expenses by 2018.
Feds: Boulder County one of the thinnest Associated Press ATLANTA - The first federal analysis of county-by-county obesity rates shows Boulder County in Colorado is one of the nation's thinnest. The analysis using 2007 data shows that less than 13 percent of people in Boulder were obese. Only about 4 percent reported diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is closely tied to obesity. The survey published ...
A recent article in the New York Times Magazine highlights the work of two social scientists named Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler, who have concluded that happiness is contagious. Unhappiness is contagious too, but 2% less contagious, it turns out. The research used data from the historic multi-year Framingham Study on health initially focused on obesity [...]
PHILADELPHIA----A new report released today based on research by Emory University Health Care Economist Ken Thorpe, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease , shows increasing obesity rates in Pennsylvania and across the country will result in higher health care spending for states and individuals.
Syracuse, N.Y. -- More than one of four Central New Yorkers are obese, according to a federal report released today that gives the first county-level estimates of obesity.
A bi-partisan effort to decrease and prevent childhood obesity was introduced today in the Ohio Senate and Ohio House of Representatives, with the strong support of the Healthy Choices for Healthy Children coalition.
Despite rates of obesity and diabetes in Tooele County that are above state and national averages, the Tooele County School District will continue to follow the state’s lead in offering sugary sodas and snacks laden with fat and calories to students via vending machines in schools.
Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 5:49 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 5:49 p.m. ATLANTA — The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia.
ATLANTA (AP) - The first federal analysis of county-by-county obesity rates shows Boulder County in Colorado is 1 of the nation's thinnest. The analysis using 2007 data shows that less than 13 percent of people in Boulder were obese. Only about 4 percent reported diabetes.
