Obesity posing heavyweight problem for health, food sectors
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Concern over growing levels of obesity has sparked a lively debate among food sector professionals and health experts about how to halt a trend that is medically and economically harmful.
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Europe's food and drink industry must step up its fight against obesity over the next three years or face new regulations, a spokesman for the European Union's health chief said on Wednesday.
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The global obesity epidemic is completely out of control, with more than 300 million overweight adults worldwide, according to specialists at the first international obesity conference in Africa.
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America&#39;s obesity epidemic isn&#39;t just a health problem, according to a new study. It&#39;s also adding extra weight to airliners, boosting the already soaring costs of jet fuel.
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Developing countries, especially in Asia, must promote healthy lifestyles from childhood to halt rising obesity and heart disease rates, medical experts said on Thursday.
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Children are main focus of government's obesity strategy to pay overweight people to get slim
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Parents in Scotland are urged to live healthier lifestyles in a bid to address childhood obesity.
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Eyeing a potential gold mine in the global obesity epidemic, the pharmaceutical industry has launched a massive drive to develop new diet pills and an intense campaign to persuade
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Sept. 30, 2004 -- Sweeping changes are needed in America to prevent the growing childhood obesity epidemic from wreaking havoc on the nation&#39;s overall health and its medical system, concludes an Institute of Medicine panel.
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Nov. 14 is World Diabetes Day, and the theme for this year&#39;s campaign is Obesity, Prevent Diabetes. Read on for a summary of current expert thinking prepared by the Asian Food Information Centre (AFIC) on
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Obesity is considered a major public health problem today, but a number of scientists are coming to see it as a comparative blessing, given the alternative.
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Researchers find a strong association between body mass index and a variety of cancers.
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Health problems related to obesity are hitting Asians harder than other ethnic groups because doctors using a one-size-fits-all diagnosis fail to pick it up, experts have said.
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NICE has recommended a raft of measures to tackle the growing obesity epidemic.
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To fight the epidemic of childhood obesity, the nation must launch a massive campaign enlisting virtually every aspect of society to reduce the amount of junk food children eat and get them exercising
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The European Union could consider legislation to regulate the junk food industry so as to tackle the continent's increasing obesity problem, the EU's health commissioner said.
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The number of obese people in China doubled to 60 million people in the 10 years to 2002. China&#39;s first comprehensive national survey on diet, nutrition and diseases found that seven per cent of Chinese adults