Government Releases Plan Focusing on Obesity
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The U.S. National Institutes of Health said on Tuesday it was launching a systematic campaign to fight obesity, which now affects close to two-thirds of the U.S. population and threatens to overtake smoking as the leading cause of death.
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The UK's biggest public exercise on encouraging healthy eating is to be launched across Wales.
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A wide-ranging effort involving parents, schools, communities and government is needed to turn the tide of childhood obesity, the Institute of Medicine said Thursday.
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The campaign, which will promote exercise and healthier diet among Virginians, aims to reduce the rate of chronic illnesses such as obesity and hypertension through diet, exercise and other prevention techniques.
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Ministers are committed to enforcing a  "single, simple" food labelling system as part of plans to tackle obesity.
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LONDON -- European health ministers from 53 countries approved the world's first charter to fight obesity on Thursday, vowing greater action against the epidemic of expanding waistlines across the continent.
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Obesity -- especially abdominal obesity -- is associated with a poor outlook for patients with established cardiovascular disease, results of a recent study indicate.
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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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NICE has recommended a raft of measures to tackle the growing obesity epidemic.
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Poor town planning which limits opportunities for children to take exercise is blamed for fuelling a rise in obesity.
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Children as young as three are being treated for obesity, according to one leading UK expert.
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The rate of obesity in China has increased by 97% in 10 years, according to a government report.
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The government unveiled a plan to help consumers more effectively offset the carbon dioxide their lifestyles produce.
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Obesity is considered a major public-health problem, but many scientists are coming to see it as a comparative blessing, given the alternative.
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It&#39;s time now for everyone to wake up to the fact that this obesity situation is not a diet, it&#39;s not about whether you are fitting into a pair of blue jeans.
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A strategy designed to cut levels of underage and binge drinking is being unveiled by the government.
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NICE recommends a raft of measures, including surgery, to tackle the growing obesity epidemic.