Topic: European Union
British women and Maltese men topped European obesity ratings according to data released Thursday that also undermined popular belief that all French women are thin.The figures released by the European Union's statistics agency showed the proportion of obese adults ranging from eight ...
A man weighing 22 stone launched a court appeal Monday against a decision to refuse him state-funded obesity surgery because he is not fat enough.Tom Condliff, 62, says he needs stomach surgery to save his life, but the state-run National Health Service ...
A British man weighing 22 stone (139 kilograms, 306 pounds) launched a court appeal Monday against a decision to refuse him state-funded obesity surgery because he is not fat enough.Tom Condliff, 62, says he needs stomach surgery to save his life, but ...
More than half of European adults are now overweight and too many children smoke or are obese, raising the risk of cancer or heart attacks, a European health report showed Tuesday.Just over 15 percent of adults in the European Union are obese, ...
LONDON (Reuters) - More than half of adults in European Union are overweight or obese, piling pressure onto their own health, their nations' health systems and the wider economy, the OECD and the EU Commission said on Tuesday.In a report on health ...
?America leads all other countries with just over 30% of the population categorized as obese and nearly an additional third as being overweight. The environment that children in the United States find themselves in is the following: They will probably either buy ...
The potential market for anti-obesity drugs is enormous, but no drug in this class has ever achieved blockbuster status[1]. Market Penetration is Poor Even When Patient Costs are Reimbursed In 2009 the patented anti-obesity drugs Xenical, Alli, and Meridia each had worldwide ...
Last week, the European Union (EU) decided that they would not ask for labels nor limit the salt, fat and sugar content of " ) after protests by bakers' unions, German bakers among them. While the EU was talking about not labeling ...
Greece, the nation that gave rise to the idea of well-formed muscular men in the name of Adonis, now has the highest prevalence of obesity in the EU, according to a report issued yesterday. "Greece today is the EU state with the ...
Last updated at 08:37am on . Unless progress is made to reduce the salt and sugar content of food, improve labelling and increase availability of healthy food by 2010, legislation will be considered, EU Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou warned. "We urge industry ...
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