 | Report stresses link between obesity and cancer [October 31, 2007] |
| LONDON (Reuters) - Keeping slim is one of the best ways of preventing cancer, as is avoiding excessive amounts of red meat and wine, a landmark study has revealed.
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| Obese people face bigger cancer risk, study finds [October 31, 2007] |
| LONDON (AFP) - Obese people have a higher risk of certain kinds of cancer, according to a report Wednesday which found that red meat and processed meats cause bowel cancer. |
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Source: Analysis and discussion on alternative health and medical news. |
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| Firms Use Carrot, Stick to Encourage Healthy Habits [October 31, 2007] |
| Firms are cracking down on the health of employees. Clarian Health recently revised plans to penalize workers for smoking, high blood pressure, or a body mass index over a certain limit. Monitoring workers' health is a growing trend; it costs more to insure smokers and overweight people. |
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| W.Va. unveils tool to help fight obesity [October 30, 2007] |
| CHARLESTON, W.Va. - West Virginia is hoping that a little wheel can make a big difference in the state's obesity problem. The wheel is a body mass index calculator, a low-tech tool that will be distributed to doctors across the state as part of a new effort to get physicians to recognize obesity early in their patients.
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| TV raises blood pressure in obese kids: study [October 30, 2007] |
| CHICAGO (Reuters) - Watching too much television may not only help make children fat, it may also raise their blood pressure, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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| Brain's 'Reward Chemical' May Help Spur Obesity [October 25, 2007] |
| THURSDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- A new study provides more evidence that dopamine -- a brain chemical associated with reward, pleasure, movement and motivation -- plays a role in obesity.
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| US schools wage war against obesity [October 25, 2007] |
| NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) - Educators and health officials have stepped up their fight against obesity in US schools by trying to replace greasy fast food with healthy meals, and are seeing small but encouraging results. |
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| Obesity Can Hurt Kids' Hearts [October 24, 2007] |
| WEDNESDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Obese children and those at risk for obesity show early signs of heart disease -- similar to that seen in obese adults, U.S. researchers say.
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| More obese US kids ending up in the hospital: study [October 24, 2007] |
| NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) - The number of children hospitalized in the United States for health problems linked to obesity tripled from 1998 to 2004, according to a study presented here Wednesday.
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| Obesity ads too soft on fat, critics say [October 22, 2007] |
| ATLANTA - Drunks swimming in gin, smokers in body bags and dopers living with their parents deep into adulthood. Those are among the public service ads shown in the past. But the government's new batch of obesity spots declines even to show a fat person, let alone wag a finger for gluttony or sloth.
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| Obesity becoming a global problem [October 22, 2007] |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People are getting fatter in all parts of the world, with the possible exception of east Asia, doctors found in a one-day global snapshot of obesity. |
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| CDC Study Finds U.S. Schools Making Progress in Decreasing Availability of Junk Food and Promoting Physical... [October 22, 2007] |
| Activity However, More Progress Needed to Foster Health and Wellness of Students |
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| Conference to examine world obesity epidemic [October 19, 2007] |
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| Obesity biggest risk for colon cancer in women [October 15, 2007] |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Obesity is the single strongest risk factor for colon cancer in women, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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| Overweight kids at risk for asthma hospitalization [October 12, 2007] |
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Overweight children seen in the ER for an asthma flare-up are more likely to be admitted to the hospital than their non-overweight peers, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics. Moreover, this finding holds true regardless of illness severity.
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