 | Pregnant Women Who are Obese Linked with Greater Health Care Services Use [June 20, 2008] |
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| 2007 NATIONAL PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION SUMMIT [June 20, 2008] |
| The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will host the 2007 National Prevention and Health Promotion Summit: Creating a Culture of Wellness. |
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Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
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| A New CDC Study Finds no Real Increase in Obesity Among Adults; But Levels Still High [June 20, 2008] |
| After a quarter century of increases, obesity prevalence has not measurably increased in the past few years but levels are still high |
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Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
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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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Source: NPR.org |
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| 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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Source: Analysis and discussion on alternative health and medical news. |
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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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Source: Analysis and discussion on alternative health and medical news. |
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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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Source: Analysis and discussion on alternative health and medical news. |
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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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Source: Analysis and discussion on alternative health and medical news. |
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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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Source: Analysis and discussion on alternative health and medical news. |
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| Conference to examine world obesity epidemic [October 19, 2007] |
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Source: Analysis and discussion on alternative health and medical news. |
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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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Source: Analysis and discussion on alternative health and medical news. |
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| Gullet cancer link seen with obesity [October 11, 2007] |
| PARIS (AFP) - Highly obese people are six times likelier to develop cancer of the gullet than people of healthy weight, according to a study published on Thursday in the British journal Gut.
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Source: Analysis and discussion on alternative health and medical news. |
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| Obesity Driving Rising U.S. Health Costs [October 2, 2007] |
| TUESDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity is a big factor driving soaring rates of chronic disease in the United States, with many more Americans chronically ill than their European counterparts, a new study finds. |
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Source: Analysis and discussion on alternative health and medical news. |
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| Obesity on the menu for US presidential hopefuls [September 20, 2007] |
| WASHINGTON (AFP) - US presidential hopefuls from both sides of the political divide are dishing out their plans for fighting obesity, which has reached epidemic proportions and is putting enormous strain on the health care system.
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Source: Analysis and discussion on alternative health and medical news. |
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