Topic: American Heart Association
One out of three cases of death resulting from a cardiovascular disease can be explained through the fact that the patient was obese, the European medical magazine Cardiovascular reported. Until recently, no direct connection was established between heart diseases and obesity, the ...
Teen obesity has reached nearly epidemic proportions in recent years.The American Heart Association and the U.S. Centers for Disease Controland Prevention state that between 15% and 33% of adolescents in the
The United States is in the grips of a full-blown obesity epidemic that is spreading at an alarming rate. The estimated annual cost of obesity-related diseases is $147 billion a year, which accounts for nearly 10 percent of medical spending in the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A deal to sell healthier drinks in U.S. schools has slashed the amount of fattening beverages offered to students, former President Bill Clinton said on Monday as New York leaders pushed for a soda tax to tackle obesity ...
The American obesity epidemic statistics are staggering. Nowhere else in the world is there a country with such a wide spread obesity problem. Approximately 11 million Americans are morbidly obese. Obesity and related problems are the leading cause of death in America. ...
First lady tackles child obesity, out to change how millions eat, look, feel By now, it is abundantly clear that Michelle Obama loves french fries."Thank God it's not going to be solely up to me," Obama said recently, stressing that the solution ...
The more overweight you are, the more likely you are to have a stroke, a new study reports.. "We found that the risk of stroke was increased with each measure of obesity," said Dr. Hiroshi Yatsuya, a visiting associate professor of public ...
The more overweight you are, the more likely you are to have a stroke, a new study reports.. "We found that the risk of stroke was increased with each measure of obesity," said Dr. Hiroshi Yatsuya, a visiting associate professor of public ...
Surging obesity rates, especially among children, may be putting the brakes on progress made in the past few decades against heart disease, researchers report.. One of several studies on the subject of obesity presented Tuesday at the American Heart Association (AHA) annual ...
3/12/2009 Print E-mail Living close to parks and other play areas may keep children more active and help combat the continued increase in childhood obesity, Canadian researchers report. For every park found within a half-mile of home, a girl's likelihood of walking ...
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