Topic: Obesity
LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. public awareness campaigns about sugary soft drinks are under legal attack by beverage makers, which have sued New York City's health department and hit local governments with requests for documents on the science behind the initiatives.Efforts ...
Nevadans have been putting on the pounds, but they're not alone. A new report says the state's obesity rate has increased more than 90 percent in the past 15 years, but 17 other states have seen similar or larger increases.The report, "F ...
The government should have the right to remove severely obese children from their parents' home and place them in foster care, two US doctors argued in a controversial editorial published Wednesday."State intervention may serve the best interests of many children with life-threatening ...
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 ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The number of obese U.S. adults rose in 16 states in the last year, helping to push obesity rates in a dozen states above 30 percent, according to a report released on Thursday.By that measure, Mississippi is the ...
Overweight or obese men, like their female counterparts, have a lower chance of becoming a parent, according to a comparison of sperm quality presented at a European fertility meeting Monday.In what they described as the largest study of its kind, doctors looked ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obese women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) may be half as likely as their normal-weight counterparts to have a baby, a study at one U.S. medical center suggests.Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found that ...
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. pediatricians want to ban junk food ads aimed at children, saying that they conspire with sedentary activities like watching television and playing video games to make kids fat."Congress and the Federal Trade Commission have to get ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Television coverage of childhood obesity is less likely than print media to focus on the role of the food and beverage industry, according to a new report in the journal Pediatrics.On the other hand, TV networks more ...
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