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Avatar Posted by power 495 days ago (http://www.medpagetoday.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: low-birth-weight obesity u.s. kids
BETHESDA, Md., July 13 -- More low-birth-weight infants are being born but older kids are heavier than ever, according to the federal government's l read more »
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Avatar Posted by facts 489 days ago (http://www.eontarionow.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: american obesity rates continue climb
New York - The U.S. obesity prevalence increased from 13 percent to 32 percent between the 1960s and 2004, according to researchers at the Johns Hopk read more »
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Avatar Posted by EarlytoRise 480 days ago (http://www.totalhealthbreakthroughs.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: weight loss obesity healthy eating
By controlling my insulin, I descended from 30% body fat to a lean 12% body fat in 90 days. During that time, I gained six pounds of muscle. I had ab read more »
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Avatar Posted by bear 458 days ago (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: scientists say common virus could cause obesity health epidemic medication
Scientists at the 234th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston, Massachusetts this week presented the results of a study that su read more »
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Avatar Posted by vien 455 days ago (http://www.time.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: doctors obesity heart disease diabetes
If there's one place where it's a good idea to come clean, it's the doctor's office. Patients with an ache, a symptom or a bad habit like smoking read more »
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Avatar Posted by time 452 days ago (http://health.yahoo.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: obesity viurs health science
(HealthDay News) -- New research is bolstering the theory that obesity may stem, a least in part, from a common virus -- one that helps create new, h read more »
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Avatar Posted by Joker 445 days ago (http://health.msn.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: america obesity diabetes prevention
One glance around a shopping mall, at a children's playground—or even down at your own belly—and you realize that with each passing year, more and m read more »
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Avatar Posted by Karen 435 days ago (http://www.dirjournal.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: dangers competitive eating obesity eating disorder
Competitive eating is a sport that used to be reserved for county fairs and high school cafeterias. Now, the contests are beginning to become more ma read more »
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Avatar Posted by Joker 414 days ago (http://news.yahoo.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: obesity problem hiv population
LOS ANGELES - Early in the AIDS epidemic, people infected with the virus often lost a dangerous amount of weight, at times looking gaunt and ghostly. read more »
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Avatar Posted by investment 396 days ago (http://www.int.iol.co.za)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: weight obesity fats problem
Obesity has become a world-wide epidemic with 1,3 billion people being either overweight or obese according to the South African Medical Research Cou read more »
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Avatar Posted by Jackie 396 days ago (http://geniusbeauty.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: gain weight excess weight health obesity facts
Some people find it normal to be overweight and do not want to change anything in their way of life. No exercise, no sports, no diets – they are just read more »
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Avatar Posted by WBuffet 353 days ago (http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: maternal obesity women pregnancy childbirth
Obesity is the fastest growing cause of women dying in pregnancy or childbirth in the UK, a report shows.

More than half the 295 women who died du read more »
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Avatar Posted by Jason 335 days ago (http://www.dreamteammoney.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: diet exercise weight loss calories physical activity obesity
It's estimated that $4 billion is spent a year in the pursuit of weight loss, yet the epidemic is continuing to grow. Americans are consuming more c read more »
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Avatar Posted by Marker 328 days ago (http://www.dreamteammoney.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: helpful tips control obesity body fat weight exercise diet
Obesity is explained as an abnormal amount of body fat; being 20 to 30 percent over the ideal weight for age, sex and height and can managed by some read more »
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Avatar Posted by Jaz 292 days ago (http://www.dreamteammoney.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: obesity causes bodyweight diseases health hazard factors
Obesity increases risks of developing high blood pressure, diabetes (type 2), heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease and cancer of the breast, pr read more »
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Avatar Posted by Karen 280 days ago (http://www.forbes.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: obesity cancer risk research health science
FRIDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- The more weight you carry on your body, the greater your odds of developing cancer, British researchers report.
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Avatar Posted by lazyguy 266 days ago (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: sleep lack of sleep stroke heart attack depression obesity
WASHINGTON - With late-night TV watching, Internet surfing and other distractions, Americans are getting less and less sleep, the U.S. Centers for Di read more »
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Avatar Posted by facts 240 days ago (http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: large waist alzheimer risk waistline threat dementia us research obesity
A big waistline in your 40s could almost triple the threat of dementia in old age, according to US research.

Obesity is a known risk factor for Al read more »
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Avatar Posted by lazyguy 206 days ago (http://www.msnbc.msn.com)
Category: Health and Medical Care | Tags: fit and fat obesity fitness
CHICAGO - New research challenges the notion that you can be fat and fit, finding that being active can lower but not eliminate heart risks faced by read more »
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