Immigrants to the U.S. Arrive Thin, Get Fat
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Many immigrants to the United States  soon get fat, joining an increasingly obese population in their  adopted country, researchers said on Tuesday.
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The longer an immigrant lives in the US the more likely they are to be obese, according to a study in the December 15 issue of JAMA.
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Visitors to the US who do not need a visa now have to be fingerprinted and photographed on arrival.
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There is a flip side to the American dream, medical researchers have discovered. Moving to the United States can make you fat. A study of immigrants&#39; health shows that
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Pundits often opine that America's stature is declining on the global stage. It turns out that Americans -- literally -- are not standing as tall, compared  with the rest of the world, as they used to.
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For dozens of illegal immigrant families, a gymnasium outside Paris has become a temporary home. They sleep shoulder-to-shoulder, their dingy mattresses piled high with necessities and small treasures: cooking pans, diapers, stuffed animals.
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After decades of being waved through, Americans returning from Mexico are increasingly being checked like foreigners, extending wait times by hours.
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City kids, like their country cousins, are struggling with weight problems, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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NOGALES, Mexico  - They are young, male and so  lean they often have just 3 percent body fat. They speed long  distances by foot over deserts and rugged mountain trails on  the U.S.-Mexico border with heavy drug loads strapped to their  backs.
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WASHINGTON Oct 27, 2004 - Americans are getting a little taller and a lot fatter. Adults are roughly an inch taller than they were in the early 1960s, on average, and nearly 25 pounds heavier, the government reported Wednesday.
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Hispanics born and raised in the United States may be in poorer health than new immigrants -- with higher rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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CHICAGO -- For an increasing number of immigrants, the United States is a land of plenty that is going straight to their gut. While obesity is relatively rare in the foreign-born, those who have lived for
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And a nation of immigrants rediscovers the world.
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The majority of Hispanic immigrants maintain ties to their native countries by sending money, calling or traveling to their homelands, but most see their future in the United States despite these long-distance links, a new study has found.
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Many illegal immigrants in the United States are manual laborers on low wages. But there's another group that attracts much less attention: entrepreneurs who have set up businesses, created jobs and grown affluent.
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The longer an immigrant lives in the US the more likely they are to be obese. Chicago, IL - Journal of the American Medical Association - Since the 1980s, the US population has become more obese, according
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People are getting fatter in all parts of the world, with the possible exception of east Asia, doctors found in a one-day global snapshot of obesity.