Topic: Obesity
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 ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Requiring fast-food restaurants in New York City to post calorie counts on menus did little to cut the number of calories children and teens consumed, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.They found that children and adolescents noticed the calories posted ...
A lifelong acolyte of exercise and fitness, Sandy Shaffer works out three times per week, eats a diet loaded with fruits and vegetables, and somehow finds time to teach a weekly aerobics class, but at five-foot, five inches (1.65 meters) and 320 ...
Health experts warned that Australia's life expectancy could be sent into reverse after a new study found alarming levels of obesity among teenagers.Nearly a quarter of 13-to-18-year-olds are overweight or obese, according to the survey of 12,000 secondary school students, which said ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Children in an intensive obesity program that included exercise and coaching on health and nutrition for their parents were able to slim down and keep weight off a year after the program ended, a U.S. study said.Obesity ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - South Asia is facing a health crisis, with rising rates of heart disease, diabetes and obesity, and patients facing impoverishment as they pay for treatment out of their own pockets, the World Bank said on Wednesday.Although the region ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids in an intensive obesity program were able to slim down and maintain a healthier weight a year after it ended, according to a new study.Obesity programs aimed at youth have generally not shown much long-term success, ...
The more mothers work during their children's lifetimes, the more likely their kids are to be overweight or obese, according to a US study published on Friday.Researchers from American University in Washington, Cornell University in New York state and the University of ...
More than half a billion adults are clinically obese in a near-doubling of the numbers of dangerously overweight adults since 1980, doctors warned on Friday.Nearly one in nine of all adults -- are clinically obese, according to research by a team from ...
A "tsunami of obesity" is unfurling across the world, resulting in a near-doubling of the numbers of dangerously overweight adults since 1980, doctors warned on Friday.More than half a billion men and women -- nearly one in nine of all adults -- ...
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