"Fat tax" could save 3,200 lives each year
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A "fat tax" on salty, sugary and fatty foods could save thousands of lives each year, according to a study published on Thursday.
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As simple a treatment as aspirin is one way to cut the more than $232 billion spent on diabetes each year and help prevent related deaths due to heart attacks and strokes, a health economist said on Tuesday.
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A small study suggests that there is a way to counteract the negative health effects of a high-fat meal.
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While being fat increases your chances of a heart attack, some studies suggest a puzzling paradox: Obese people seem to have a better chance of surviving one.
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NEW YORK  - Short bursts of exercise may  help reduce the potentially dangerous spikes in blood fats that  occur after fatty meals.
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Stability control systems could save up to 7,000 lives each year if they were standard equipment on all vehicles, according to a study by the insurance industry.
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Screening relatives of middle-aged people who suffer heart attacks would save lives, say experts.
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A doctor is leading a campaign aimed at requiring insurance companies to fund programs that would help people lose weight with exercise programs and diet counseling.
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A new report by a national health advocacy group calls state and national policies ineffective tools in the war against obesity. The Trust for Americaâs Health, a nonprofit organization based in Washington
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Regardless of how fat or poor you are, four key changes could add 14 years to your life, a major study finds.
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INDIANAPOLIS - A doctor is leading a campaign aimed at requiring insurance companies to fund programs that would help people lose weight with exercise programs and diet counseling.
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To fight obesity, the government should boost health education and help shield kids from junk food. And corporate support is needed, too.
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Â·  Study shows cut in risk of cardiovascular disease Â·  Remedy could save a million lives in five years
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Cervical cancer, which may cause the death of a quarter million women worldwide each year, could be prevented through inexpensive and effective methods, WHO said.
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Smoke cigarettes, die young, save NHS money Dutch researchers have confirmed what fat smokers have waited years to hear - that healthy people are actually a greater burden on the state, because they live longer and oblige the taxpayer to deal with the cost of "lingering diseases of old age like Alzheimerâs and Parkinsonâs".â¦
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LONDON - Money spent on sports and exercise should be tax deductible as part of a national strategy to fight flab, say doctors in Britain who are grappling with one of the world's most rapidly growing obesity epidemics.    Ahead of a daylong conference Thursday on tackling obesity in primary care clinics, the Royal College of General Practitioners called on the government to consider tax breaks to make exercise more accessible and affordable to everybody...
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