Health warning labels similar to those found on tobacco products may have a powerful effect on whether parents purchase sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) for their children, according to a new study led by the Perelman School ...
Jan 14, 2016
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Is there light at the end of the "diabesity" tunnel? New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seem to confirm that recent reports showing the U.S. diabetes epidemic beginning to decline are not a statistical ...
Dec 4, 2015
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A trio of recent reports has shed new light on U.S. health, with mixed results on obesity, smoking, and blood pressure.
Nov 26, 2015
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More than 35 percent of Arkansas adults are obese, making it the heaviest state in the nation. Gov. Asa Hutchinson looked at those numbers and saw two problems: an increased risk of all sorts of health challenges, and an ...
Nov 5, 2015
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Some six years out from New York City's attempt to curb the obesity epidemic by mandating calorie counts in chain restaurants, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have found that calorie labels, on their own, have not ...
Nov 2, 2015
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The childhood obesity epidemic in the United States has been growing for decades. A new study focusing on African-American children shows how the issue can also impact social development. The University of Cincinnati study ...
Nov 2, 2015
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The University of Otago's Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre (EDOR) welcomes two highly important health strategies targeting childhood obesity and diabetes that the government has launched in recent days.
Oct 21, 2015
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Here's an easy way for office workers to burn a few extra calories and avoid the perils of sitting all day: stand and type.
Oct 2, 2015
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In a week when the British Medical Association has called for a sugar tax of 20 per cent to be introduced to help combat the nation's obesity epidemic, Dr Gail Rees, Associate Professor in Human Nutrition at Plymouth University ...
Jul 14, 2015
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The UK Government must face the "mounting" evidence in support of taxes on unhealthy food and drinks, according to the authors of a new report.
May 20, 2015
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