Showing posts with label morbid obesity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label morbid 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...
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...
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 ...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Obesity Alone Raises Risk of Fatal Heart Attack, Study Finds

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Obese men face a dramatically higher risk of dying from a heart attack , regardless of whether or not they have other known risk facto...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

Study: Global obesity rates double since 1980 - USATODAY.com

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Obesity rates worldwide have doubled in the last three decades even as blood pressure and cholesterol levels have dropped, according to th...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood Home

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Order Your Organizer's Kit Today! Go Screen-Free with CCFC: April 18-24, 2011 This April, children and families around the world ...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

For Teens, Too Much Sugar Can Be A Heartbreaker : Shots - Health News Blog : NPR

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Teenagers who guzzle a daily bottle of soda are probably not thinking much about their hearts as the sweet stuff runs down their throats. ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Parenting, Part II: Weight is heavy topic to discuss with grown children - USATODAY.com

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Kim Painter has written about health and wellness for USA TODAY since 1987. She is the mother of two teen boys. Daphne Oz puts it bluntly...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

7 Biggest Diet Myths | LiveScience

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Bathing suit season is just around the corner and every friend has a new diet tip. But does science back them up? Here are some of the mo...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Doctors, nurses often contribute to patients' weight problems - FierceHealthcare

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Although some doctors and nurses seems to think stigma and shame can help motivate patients to lose weight, the opposite seems to be true, ...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

Medical News: FDA Panel Says Okay to Lower BMI for Lap-Band - in Primary Care, Obesity from MedPage Today

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An FDA advisory committee voted 8 to 2 that Allergan's Lap-Band device is safe enough to use in patients with a BMI as low as 30. The...