Ont. medical officer calls obesity an &#39;epidemic&#39;
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TORONTO - Empty calories and inactive lifestyles are creating an &quot;obesity epidemic&#39;&#39; in Ontario, with almost half of adults now overweight, the province&#39;s chief medical officer warned Wednesday.
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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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Epidemic of overweightness means monitoring is needed from infancy onwards, expert warns.
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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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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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Obese patients in Calgary, Alberta, are the first in Canada to have a new ambulance on call specially modified to move them in a dignified and safe way while protecting paramedics from injury.
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More than half of adults in European Union nations are obese or overweight and the young are increasingly making Europe a fat continent, the EU's top public health official said Wednesday.
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The global obesity epidemic is out of control, with more than 300 million overweight adults worldwide, specialists told the first international obesity conference in Sun City, South Africa, which ended yesterday.
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Obesity has been a factor in at least 20 child protection cases in the last year, the BBC learns.
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Reports claimed that obesity had played a part in 20 child protection cases last year.
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New York is becoming Fat City and that&#39;s causing a serious increase in diabetes-related deaths, health officials said Wednesday.
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The obesity epidemic needs to be tackled in the same way as climate change, says a top nutritional scientist.
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Almost one in five Saudis suffer from obesity, costing the country more than three billion dollars a year, a top medical official said in remarks published.
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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.
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The global obesity epidemic is completely out of control, with more than 300 million overweight adults worldwide, according to specialists at the first international obesity conference in Africa.
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Nov. 8 - A new report card on the nation&#39;s health shows the prevalence of obesity is up 97% since 1990. It shows nearly one in 4 Americans is 30 pounds or more overweight.
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Several government and public health experts on Tuesday responded to an internal CDC investigation that determined a widely quoted agency study on obesity that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association inflated the number of deaths