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Lionel Shriver: My brother is eating himself to death
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 4 hours ago
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Many fat pride demonstrators say heavy is not necessarily unhealthy. Photograph: Wally McNamee/Corbis Not long ago, "weight diversity speakers" advocating "fat acceptance" for the "fat pride" community would have been a gag on the US TV satire The Daily...
Tags: Lionel Shriver, fat pride, New York City, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Weight gain, Metabolic disorders, Hospitality Recreation, Overweight, Body shape, Nutrition, Bariatrics, Fat acceptance movement
Colon cancer race disparities puzzling
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | about 10 hours ago
Credibility Body-mass index and existing medical conditions do not explain the decreased cancer survival among blacks compared to whites, U.S. researchers said. University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers say that for many cancers, including colon cancer, African-Americans...
Tags: colon cancers, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Esophageal cancer, Social Issues, Colorectal cancer, Overweight, Body shape, Nutrition, Cancer, Gastrointestinal cancer
An Easy Weight Loss Program Using Herbal Diet Pill
İstanbul :: Turkey | about 15 hours ago
Credibility Central Standard Time Quite a lot of people today are implementing their own weight loss program for a healthier and leaner lifestyle. Whether it's to trim down from being overweight or to acquire a much beautiful physique, we can never deny the fact...
Tags: loss program, weight loss, diet pills, herbal diet, Turkey, İstanbul, Health Medical Pharma, Diets, Obesity, Dietetics, Hospitality Recreation, Overweight, Anti-obesity medication, Body shape, Nutrition
Children's program does fat lot of good
Sydney :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility The Active After-School Communities program, run by the Australian Sports Commission, is intended to combat rising childhood obesity rates by encouraging school children to take part in exercise classes. But obesity experts have rounded on the program,...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Metabolic disorders, Social Issues, Hospitality Recreation, Overweight, Childhood obesity, Body shape, Body mass index, Nutrition, Bariatrics
Fat chance
Geelong :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility The numbers are extraordinary and deeply worrying: among Victorian two-year-olds, one in every six is overweight or obese — and for children aged 3 the proportion is almost one in five. Startling as these figures are, they reflect the state of Australian...
Tags: Dr de Silva-Sanigorski, healthy eating, physical active, children aged, early childhood, care centres, Australian, health services, Geelong, data collect, Australia, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Metabolic disorders, Social Issues, Hospitality Recreation, Overweight, Childhood obesity, Body shape, Body mass index, Nutrition, Bariatrics
Medical concern over correct drug doses
Sydney :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility Authorities needed to rewrite prescribing rules currently based on patients' body weight, Bruce Green told the Herald . For some drugs, side-effects became apparent at relatively low doses above the ideal level, said Dr Green, the director of Model Answers,...
Tags: Dr Green, body weight, drug dosing, Australia, Sydney, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Hospitality Recreation, Overweight, Body shape, Nutrition, Bariatrics
Diabetes cases to double in the next 25 years: US study
Mumbai :: India | 3 days ago
Credibility Moreover, the money spend on diabetes will almost triple, rising from 113 billion dollars to 336 billion dollars in the same period. "If we don't change our diet and exercise habits or find new, more effective and less expensive ways to prevent and treat...
Tags: diabetes, Dr Elbert Huang, obese levels, diabetic cases, India, Mumbai, Health Medical Pharma, Diabetes mellitus, Obesity, Metabolic disorders, Social Issues, Hospitality Recreation, Joslin Diabetes Center, Overweight, Body shape, Nutrition
Too fat to pass?
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility This is what some students are facing at Lincoln University in the US which has introduced a unique way of tackling obesity. In 2006, the university in Pennsylvania introduced its Fitness for Life programme with the aim of encouraging students to lose...
Tags: Lincoln University, BBC World Service, lincoln universities, Philadelphia, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Education, Metabolic disorders, Hospitality Recreation, Overweight, Body shape, Body mass index, Nutrition, Bariatrics
Behold: The World’s 10 Fattest Countries
Shanghai :: China | 4 days ago
Credibility As the world has grown smaller, we’ve all grown larger — alarmingly so. In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity. The common fat-o-meter among nations is...
Tags: The World Health Organization, China, Shanghai, Health Medical Pharma, Obesity, Metabolic disorders, Hospitality Recreation, Overweight, Epidemiology of obesity, Body shape, Body mass index, Nutrition, Bariatrics
Presence of fat hurts weight loss
Pamplona :: Spain | 5 days ago
Credibility Increased body fat results in higher levels of inflammatory substances in the blood, which hinders the loss of weight, researchers in Spain said. Estibaliz Goyenechea Soto, a scientist at the University of Navarra School of Pharmacy, examined how the...
Tags: weight loss, obese patients, Spain, Pamplona, Health Medical Pharma, Diets, Dieting, Obesity, Hospitality Recreation, Overweight, Body shape, Nutrition, Bariatrics
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