Topic: New York City
The high calorie counts of the artery-clogging fast foods were right in front of their eyes, but adults and teens in a recent US study went ahead and ordered burgers anyway.So said researchers at New York University whose findings were published this ...
New York City is serious about trying to reduce rates of obesity and the expensive and debilitating conditions for which obesity raises risks. New York City, according to the Times account, has 1.7 million people who receive SNAP benefits. Every year, tens ...
In an effort to help curb the city's growing obesity epidemic New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Gov. David A. Paterson on Oct. 7 unveiled an initiative submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to exclude sugar-sweetened beverages from the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York expanded its anti-obesity campaign on Thursday with a proposal to ban the use of food stamps to buy sugary drinks, drawing beverage industry complaints that it is another government attempt to tell people how to behave.New ...
Contrave, an experimental weight loss drug that combines an antidepressant with an anti-addiction medication, appears to help users shed pounds when taken along with a healthy diet and exercise, researchers report.. The drug, which is up for U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
The Associated Press wrote today about employers that are offering their workers financial incentives for losing weight. Cigarettes are taxed by the feds, states and some localities (NYC has a $1.50 per pack tax). If you've ridden the NYC subways, you've seen ...
The requirement is meant to fight obesity by making consumers more aware of what they are eating. The New York City health department studied 12,000 customers of chain restaurants in 2008 and found that one in six used the calorie information and ...
Swedish scientists have discovered that a well-known marker of inflammation may help determine how much fat tissue people carry around.. "There seems to be a certain feedback in patients with normal weight that's not there with patients who have obesity," said Dr. ...
Swedish scientists have discovered that a well-known marker of inflammation may help determine how much fat tissue people carry around.. "There seems to be a certain feedback in patients with normal weight that's not there with patients who have obesity," said Dr. ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York State should tax sugary soft drinks to curb obesity and recoup some of the billions of dollars it spends each year to treat people with diabetes and other diseases, Governor David Paterson said on Monday."Someone has ...
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