Utahns are healthy but getting fatter
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WASHINGTON - Utah remains one of the healthiest states in the nation, and it is getting healthier in many key categories used to measure overall health.
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If people keep gaining weight at the current rate, fat will be the norm by 2015, with 75 percent of U.S. adults overweight and 41 percent obese, U.S. researchers predicted on Wednesday.
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There looks to be more room for healthy growth.
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Gail Rutter of Frederick had a problem. Diagnosed earlier this year with diabetes, she and her two grown children thought that their traditional Christmas dinner would be off limits because of its high fat content and added sugar.
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By Kristen Stewart, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 12--As many as 875 Utahns lost their food stamps last month under a  new policy that anti-hunger advocates say they would have opposed had they  known about it.
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There is a flip side to the American dream, medical researchers have discovered. Moving to the United States can make you fat. A study of immigrants&#39; health shows that
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NEW YORK  - Researchers speculated that excess fat, which places more weight on the bones, may help build stronger bones in young people. However, a new study has found that this is not the case.
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NEW YORK  - Children burn more body fat day-to-day than adults do, underscoring their need for a little extra fat in their diets, according to researchers.
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WASHINGTON Oct 28, 2004 - Better nutrition has helped Americans grow a little taller. But it&#39;s been too much of a good thing: The nation is also a whole lot fatter.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. &#151; West Virginia is taking drastic steps to shed its status as the third-heaviest state in the nation. More than 1,200 of the state's heaviest public employees have lost 14,000 pounds under one program. And obese Medicaid recipients will soon get to join Weight Watchers for free.
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A new study found that obesity is relatively rare in the foreign-born until they have lived in the United States - the land of drive-thrus, remote controls and double cheeseburgers - for more than 10 years.
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People are getting fatter in all parts of the world, with the possible exception of Asia, a global snapshot shows.
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Obesity appears to spread from one person to another like a virus or a fad, researchers reported yesterday in a first-of-its-kind study that helps explain -- and could help fight -- one of the nation's biggest public health problems.
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NEW YORK  - People who are obese at age 18 will more likely than not develop type 2 diabetes at some point, according to a U.S. study.
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By any measure, Americans are increasingly interested in eating healthily, yet obesity rates are still rising.
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Married adults are healthier than widowed, divorced or those never married, though husbands have a tendency to gain extra weight, founding to a new US study.
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Those patients also showed healthier cholesterol levels and glucose tolerance. Most of the fat loss was from the waistline. Metabolic Pharmaceuticals Ltd of Australia did the study.