Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Community health centers (CHCs) and primary care providers working in other settings will increasingly become America's obesity "first responders," needed to provide weight-related health services as the nation continues to implement the Affordable Care Act. In a paper just released, the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance identified ...
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Researchers from the University of Leicester have published a major study in PLoS One, a journal of the Public Library of Science, calling for a recalculation of obesity levels amongst South Asians. The researchers from the University's Departments of Health Sciences and Cardiovascular Sciences are arguing the case to redefine ...
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
From 2005 to 2010 the obesity/overweight rate in children in California dropped one percentage point, offering hope that the three-decade-long increase may be finally turning, researchers from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA) revealed in a new report. However, the ...
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
New research published in this week's PLoS Medicine reveals that by living a physically active lifestyle, the genetic predisposition to obesity caused by the 'fat mass and obesity associated' (FTO) gene can be significantly reduced. The large international collaboration was led by Ruth Loos from the Medical Research Council Epidemiology ...
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
The consumption of sugary sodas has grown so much over the last three decades that they are now the number 1 source of calories in the diets of American teenagers, says a new report issued by The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. The authors say that their ...
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