Malaysia sees doubling of obese, overweight people
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The number of overweight or obese people in Malaysia has doubled in the last decade, and the country now has more fat people than any other nation in Southeast Asia, a report has said.
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Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with two-thirds of adults and some 25 million children obese or overweight, and the fatness of the land threatening US competitiveness, a report published Monday showed.
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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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Seniors are supersizing themselves, with the number of obese older Americans doubling in the past 20 years, according to a federal report released Thursday by the National Institute on Aging.
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The Health Ministry said in a report on Tuesday that 200 million Chinese are overweight, a sign that rising incomes are helping to expand waistlines.
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With the Chinese economy booming and people&#39;s living standards rising, the number of overweight citizens in the world&#39;s most populous nation has shot up to 200 million, which could trigger a major health hazard, the government said here today.
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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 World Health Organisation (WHO) says rates of diabetes are set to increase as childhood obesity soars worldwide. WHO says an estimated 10 per cent of school-aged children are overweight, with the situation worsening.
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Babies who are born heavy and grow  fast have a 150 percent chance of being overweight or obese by  the time they are seven years old, a survey of more than 8,000  children in Hong Kong has shown.
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Malaysia's health minister called Monday for a ban on fast-food commercials during children's television programmes to control rising obesity.
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Obesity has reached pandemic proportions throughout the world and is now the greatest single contributor to chronic disease, an international conference was told here.
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The children of wealthier parents, particularly those with working mothers, are more likely to be obese or overweight, a study says.
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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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A new study found that obesity is relatively rare in the foreign-born until they have lived in the United States - the land of remote controls and double cheeseburgers - for more than 10 years.
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Half the world&#39;s diabetes cases could be eliminated by curbing the soaring number of people who are overweight, say health experts.
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Very obese people are as unhealthy, and probably as likely to die, as patients with heart failure, US researchers have reported. A second
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Obesity nearly doubles the risk that an otherwise healthy middle-aged man will eventually have a stroke, a long-running Swedish study finds.