NY creates site on obesity
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The state of New York is responding to complaints from citizens about the complexity of health insurance coverage for obesity treatment by releasing an online consumer guide.
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Diet trends aren't just for adults anymore. A new obsession of America's food, beverage and restaurant companies is thwarting childhood obesity.
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The nation's largest food company is moving to address growing concerns about childhood obesity and unhealthful eating habits.
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NEW YORK  - Obese children and teens lost   weight, made new friends and felt more confident after   participating in a community-based program that consisted of   individual counseling, group physical activities and parental   group sessions, UK researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - Children's tendency to become overweight might have something to do with how their mothers urge them to eat, a new study hints.
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The US 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 US population and threatens to overtake smoking as the leading cause of death
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To fight the epidemic of childhood obesity, the nation must launch a massive campaign enlisting virtually every aspect of society to reduce the amount of junk food children eat and get them exercising
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The longer immigrants live in the United States, the more likely they are to take on what has become an increasingly common American characteristic: obesity.
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Voters who feel disempowered by political fat cats have a new option: a website that allows individuals to create their own political action committee. Now anyone can be a professional Democratic fund-raiser. By Daniel Terdiman.
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New York Attorney General Eliot  Spitzer on Tuesday said his office has created an interactive  Web site to help New Yorkers comparison shop for prescription  drugs, following a statewide survey showing widely varying  prices at pharmacies.
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Fearing that young models strutting down the runways in New York City are too skinny, a state lawmaker proposes that weight standards be established for the fashion and entertainment industries.
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New Yorkers may have tasted the difference as new rules took effect barring trans fats &#151; but they couldn't always see the effect of a requirement that restaurants list calorie counts on menus.
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NICE recommends a raft of measures, including surgery, to tackle the growing obesity epidemic.
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A new website is being launched in an attempt to strengthen patient choice.
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NEW YORK -- The Board of Health voted Tuesday to make New York the nation's first city to ban artery-clogging artificial trans fats at restaurants _ from the corner pizzeria to high-end bakeries.
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THE United Statesâ obesity epidemic has reached the playpen, according to research, with more than 10 per cent of children aged two to five reported to be overweight.
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NEW YORK  - Measuring body fat, rather than body mass index, appears to more accurately identify people who need lifestyle interventions to lose weight, study findings suggest.