CDC Study Overstated Obesity Deaths
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The government, acknowledging a mistake in a highly publicized health report, is expected to significantly reduce its estimate of the number of Americans who die because of obesity.
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Does where you live influence what you eat? A new study says ZIP codes are surprisingly accurate predictors of obesity.
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Very obese people are as unhealthy,  and probably as likely to die, as patients with heart failure,  U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
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Very obese people are as unhealthy, and probably as likely to die, as patients with heart failure, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
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NEW YORK  - People who are just moderately overweight have an increased risk developing heart disease, even if they are otherwise healthy, according to pooled data from published studies.
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Sept. 23, 2004 -- Drinking to excess causes more than 75,000 deaths in the US each year, resulting in nearly 2.3 million years of potential life lost among Americans, according to a new CDC report.
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Hispanics in the United States are more  likely to be overweight or obese, develop diabetes and die from  strokes, AIDS and liver disease than whites, federal officials  said on Thursday.
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Two new studies shed light on the role obesity may play in causing heart attacks and, surprisingly, keeping them from being fatal.
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Many readers may be surprised by the following statistics - 200 million people in China are over-weight, 160 million suffer from high blood pressure, 20 million from diabetes and over 60 million have developed obesity.
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Obesity is on its way to being deadlier than smoking as a cause of cancer, a leading researcher said Friday. Being obese is currently associated with about 14 percent of cancer deaths in men and 20 percent in women, compared with about 30 percent each for smoking, Dr. Walter C. Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Evolution and the environment, not just  gluttony, has led to a global obesity pandemic, with an  estimated 1.5 billion people overweight -- more than the number  of undernourished people -- an obesity conference was told on  Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Findings from a new study   confirm that obesity is associated with decreased survival   among women with ovarian cancer.
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Obesity can double the risk of several cancers, according to a study published on Friday that for the first time also links being overweight with a number of less common forms of the disease.
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Obese individuals are at  increased risk for suffering a heart attack or other "acute  coronary syndrome" (ACS), but because they are treated more  aggressively than their lean counterparts, their outcomes are  actually better, new research suggests.
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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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Obesity can double the risk of several  cancers, according to a study published on Friday that for the  first time also links being overweight with a number of less  common forms of the disease.
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Federal health officials said yesterday they had overestimated in a high-profile study the number of Americans dying from being overweight.