EU says Europeans are getting fatter
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A majority of adults are obese or overweight in most European Union nations and kids increasingly contributing to make Europe a fat continent, the EU's top public health official said Wednesday.
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Reform-minded figures from some of Europe's smaller, nimbler economies won key posts in the European Union's executive branch, part of a drive by the incoming president to prioritize growth across the continent.
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Many immigrants to the United States soon get fat, joining an increasingly obese population in their adopted country, researchers said on Tuesday.
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NICE has recommended a raft of measures to tackle the growing obesity epidemic.
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Too much abdominal fat in middle age may increase the risk of disability in later years, according to new study findings presented Wednesday at the annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity in Las Vegas.
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Diagnosed cases of cancer rose by 10 percent in Europe over two years, an increase attributable to the continent's ageing population, the effects of smoking and better screening for breast cancer, doctors reported.
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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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It&#39;s the fastest-growing economy in Europe, in the fifth year of a boom that has seen gross domestic product climb by over a third since 1999.
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Africa, a continent usually synonymous with hunger, is falling prey to obesity.
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LONDON, October 26  - The European Commission has reduced its growth forecasts for the Eurozone economy for 2005, saying that the elevated oil prices and a continued rally in the euro would adversely impact the economy next year.
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The European Union wants firms to stop advertising junk food to children and to make food labelling clearer, the FT says.
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Europeans, many of whom worked themselves up about the swooning dollar and the stampeding euro last year, suddenly seem to have mellowed.
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Europe's bigger economies register yet more productivity growth, while the UK starts to fall behind.
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MONDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- More and more Americans are sliding into obesity, a clear signal that this national health problem is getting worse.
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The European Commission raised its estimate for euro zone growth this year to 2.1 percent from the 1.7 percent forecasts last spring due to surging external demand.
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Mr Kok's report, seen by the Financial Times, warns that Europe has fallen further behind the US since launching its ambitious target to raise Europe's growth potential at Lisbon in 2000.
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Most British citizens could be obese by 2050, a new government report warns, and the nation's health secretary called Wednesday for a fundamental shift in the way the nation tackles obesity.