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Childhood Obesity May Cause Future Heart Disease Epidemic
"A coming epidemic" is how pediatric cardiologists are describing the impending problems from high rates of juvenile obesity, reports The Missourian. Here are details for parents about overweight kids, heart disease and other concomitant health issues.
The obesity crisis
Friends, don’t believe the hype. Despite well-intentioned headlines proclaiming that the obesity crisis has finally leveled off, we can’t yet say “mission accomplished.”
Potatoes lower blood pressure in people with obesity and hypertension without increasing weight
( American Chemical Society ) The first study to check the effects of eating potatoes on blood pressure in humans has concluded that two small helpings of purple potatoes a day decreases blood pressure by about four percent without causing weight gain. In a report in the ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, the researchers say that decrease, although seemingly small, is sufficient to ...
Obesity and pain linked, study of one million Americans shows
A clear association between obesity and pain -- with higher rates of pain identified in the heaviest individuals -- was found in a study of more than one million Americans.
Obesity rates may be leveling off, but doctors aren't celebrating
Nationally, the rates of obesity among adults and children are slowing, perhaps even leveling off, after decades of increases. But that's not exactly a reason to cheer.
Henry Schein, Supplier Partners, and American Dental Association Open The NASDAQ Stock Market in Celebration of 'Give ...
MELVILLE, N.Y., Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC - News), the largest provider of health care products and services to office-based practitioners, and its supplier partners have joined ...
Obesity Adds Obstacles to Prostate Cancer Battle
NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- New Year's resolutions often include best intentions to lose weight and live healthier lives. This month, New York robotic prostate surgery ( http://www.roboticoncology.com/ ...
Cepeda: America's obesity levels off, but too many still too fat
Friends, don't believe the hype. Despite well-intentioned headlines proclaiming the obesity crisis has finally leveled off, we can't yet say "mission accomplished.
Anti-Obesity Ads Face Pushback
The Anti-Obesity campaign seems to have irked the beverage companies and the food chains.
US Obesity Rates Hold Steady, But High: Study
Obesity rates in the United States remained stubbornly high over the past decade, with more than one-in-three adults and one-in-six children now considered obese, according to two studies published online this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Among certain demographics, such as boys aged 6 to 19 years old, the rates of obesity (defined as a body mass index of 30 or ...
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