Showing posts with label Prevalence of Obesity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prevalence of Obesity. Show all posts
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Legislating Away Obesity? | Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes

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Today is the beginning of the 2nd National Obesity Summit hosted by the Canadian Obesity Network in partnership with the Canadian Associa...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Canadian kids get failing grade for physical activity - CTV News

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Canadian schoolchildren are getting poor grades over how much, or how little, physical activity they get on a daily basis. Active Healt...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Contagious Habits: How Obesity Spreads | Wired Science | Wired.com

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By Jonah Lehrer April 19, 2011  |  2:06 pm  |  Categories: Frontal Cortex , Science Blogs A few years ago, Nicholas Christak...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Obesity In Childhood Leads To Poor Posture And Back Pain

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Being overweight as a child and adolescent can lead to poor postures linked to back pain , according to new research by Curtin University&#...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Ross Kristal: Establishing a BODY of Work to Combat Obesity & Diabetes | Einstein Features

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While the explosion of diabetes is making headlines the world over, a group of Einstein students is taking the fight against obesity and di...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Diet Soda Makes You Fat | Foodie Buzz

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The Wall Street Journal  just  reported  that Diet Coke beats out Pepsi for consumers in the US—only Coke beats them both in total sales. ...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Tubby Americans throwing off safety of city buses - USATODAY.com

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The Federal Transit Authority (FTA) proposes raising the assumed average weight per bus passenger from 150 pounds to 175 pounds, which coul...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Fighting Childhood Obesity in Minority Communities | MinorityNurse.com

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The eight-year-old girl in Dr. Sheila Davis’ qualitative study on childhood obesity weighed 205 pounds. The little girl and 16 other chil...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Skip Dessert? Christie and Huckabee on First Lady’s Side

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In the dessert wars, at least, Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee side with Michelle Obama , not Sarah Palin . S...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Health Crisis, Actually A Lifestle Crisis, Local Voices, North Zone, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 - chicagotribune.com

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Driving back home recently at 3 a.m. after performing a lifesaving heart procedure on a morbidly obese 45-year-old man who was having a mas...

Myths About Heart Disease - Nursing Link

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Anita Manning | USA TODAY February 01, 2011 Imagine hearing news of a catastrophe causing the deaths of 2,200 American...

When Man's Best Friend Is Obese - WSJ.com

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For 12-year-old Buffy of Calabash, N.C., the trouble began with too much steak (and chicken and ice cream) at dinnertime. In nearby Ocean I...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Medical News: Southerners Move as Slowly as They Speak - in Primary Care, Exercise & Fitness from MedPage Today

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By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: February 20, 2011 ...