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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Obesity levels in South Africa are on a par with the US, say doctors discussing the global epidemic.
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A deadly bacteria that attacks the intestines of mainly elderly patients is showing up with more frequency at a handful of Ontario hospitals, Joshua Tepper, the Canadian province's acting chief medical officer of health, said on Tuesday.
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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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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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While it&#39;s just kid stuff, playtime is one of the keys to keeping in check the problem of obesity in America. Wednesday, the US Surgeon General Dr.
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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
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Reports claimed that obesity had played a part in 20 child protection cases last year.
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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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Heart disease and diabetes get all the attention, but expanding waistlines increase the risk for at least nine types of cancer, too. And with the obesity epidemic showing no signs of waning, specialists say they need to better understand how fat cells fuels cancer growth so they might fight back...
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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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Obesity is considered a major public health problem today, but a number of scientists are coming to see it as a comparative blessing, given the alternative.
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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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&quot;The scale of the crisis facing the public health system from the surge in obesity and smoking-related illnesses should force even the most libertarian among us to accept that the government can no longer be a passive bystander .
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The obesity epidemic is reaching down to the playpen: More than 10 percent of US children 2 to 5 are overweight, the American Heart Association reported yesterday.
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An aging workforce, combined with the growing obesity epidemic and the high cost of medical care, could result in an epidemic of preventable illness that might cripple the region's economy, according to a study being released this morning by the New England Health Care Institute and the Boston Foundation.
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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.