Report: Number of Overweight Americans Holds Steady
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The number of overweight Americans  is holding steady as U.S. consumers are becoming more aware of  what they eat, an annual report by market research firm The NPD  Group said.
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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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Older adults who are overweight  do not seem to be at any extra risk of memory decline, a new  study suggests.
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Overweight people have a tendency to sit, while lean ones have trouble holding still, researchers are reporting.
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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 â-or more than 10 years.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDay News) -- While there's more recognition of the obesity epidemic plaguing American children and many new programs to fight it, the effectiveness of these efforts is not clear, a new federal report warns.
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A state-by-state review of the nation&#39;s health shows that progress has stalled on the key issues of obesity and infant mortality, according to a new report.
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NEW YORK  - People who strap on a pedometer and strive to walk more each day can probably expect to lose a modest amount of weight, a research analysis suggests.
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(National-NBC) Nov. 16, 2004 - In a study of overweight adults and their overweight dogs researchers found both the people and their pets lost weight and kept it off over the course of the one year study.
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WASHINGTON  - A US government report released in March on the number of deaths related to obesity in the United States exaggerated the number due to a statistical error, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites) said in a
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Overweight people have a lower death rate because they are less likely to die from certain diseases, a report says.
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Cubans are no strangers to the battle of the bulge. Waistlines have expanded since the economic crisis of the early 1990s eased on the communist-run island &#151; so much so that 30 percent of adults are now overweight, a newly released government study reveals.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - People are not the only ones fighting the battle of the bulge, millions of dogs in the United States are overweight or obese, according to animal experts.
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Modifying the consumption of different food-groups may keep body weight from creeping up over time, new research suggests.
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MONDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Worldwide, 40 percent of men and 30 percent of women are now overweight, and 24 percent of men and 27 percent of women are obese, say researchers who looked at data from 63 countries.
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Americans are a bit taller and much heavier than they were in the early 1960s, says a report released Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Nov. 8, 2004 -- Rapidly rising obesity rates and a startling increase in child mortality are holding back gains in Americans&#39; overall health, concludes an annual 50-state survey conducted by nonprofit public health groups Monday.