Obesity not killing as many people as first thought, say US health ...
22765
US health officials from the CDC say that obesity is not killing as many people as first thought. They say the CDC will ask JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) to alter the figures it published in a study published last March.
605253
A widely reported government study that said obesity is about to overtake smoking as the No. 1 cause of death in the United States contained statistical errors and may have overstated
284943
Oct. 6, 2004 (Atlanta) -- There&#39;s more evidence that obesity can be deadly. A new study shows obese women with early stage breast cancer are at greater risk of dying of their disease.
718520
Findings from a new study  suggest that obesity per se is not a risk factor for organ  failure or death. However, the risk is increased with diabetes,  which often develops in people with a high body mass index  (BMI).
262154
Obesity is on its way to being deadlier than smoking as a cause of cancer, a leading researcher said Friday. Being obese is currently associated with about 14 percent of cancer deaths in men and 20 percent in women, compared with about 30 percent each for smoking, Dr. Walter C. Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
755601
The growing obesity problem doesn't exclude pets.
463461
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with two-thirds of adults and some 25 million children obese or overweight, and the fatness of the land threatening US competitiveness, a report published Monday showed.
666435
&#39;Physical activity reduces the effects of being overweight, but it&#39;s far from removing all the increased risk associated with obesity.
77442
Americans are beginning to realize   that childhood obesity is a real problem and are even starting   to do something about it, but there is no way to tell what   actually works, a panel of experts said on Wednesday.
399573
Obese women with breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than those of a normal weight, researchers said today. US researchers looked at information
103846
With Americans' obesity driving the focus on weight loss, scant attention is paid to the other side of the scale - underweight people who are trying to put on pounds.    Being underweight is not a common problem in the United States, affecting only about 2 percent of adults, compared to two-thirds who are overweight or obese...
481356
NEW YORK  - Some researchers are questioning whether national guidelines advising Americans to eat a low-fat diet have had the unintended consequence of feeding the current obesity epidemic.
523807
Obese people who suffer critical injuries are much more likely to die than thinner victims because their overall health tends to be worse and surgery is riskier, a study said on Monday.
523708
A report released last month by the Centers for Disease Control makes for some pretty heavy reading -literally. The report, &quot;Mean Body Weight, Height, and Body Mass Index, United States 1960-2002,&quot; found that
290984
Regular exercise alone is not enough to cut the risk of death from obesity, according to new research. The study which followed 116,000 nurses over 24 years was published in the New England Journal of Medicine
525983
NEW YORK  - The "obesity paradox" lives on: In a look-back at a group of adults with suspected or known coronary artery disease, underweight adults had an increased risk of death, whereas overweight and obese adults had a lower risk of death, compared with normal-weight adults.
685165
Evolution and the environment, not just  gluttony, has led to a global obesity pandemic, with an  estimated 1.5 billion people overweight -- more than the number  of undernourished people -- an obesity conference was told on  Monday.