Showing posts with label complications of obesity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label complications of obesity. Show all posts
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...
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...