Higher gas prices make for thinner Americans
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Higher gasoline prices may slim more than just wallets, according to a new study from Washington University in St. Louis.
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Gas prices fell another 3 cents during the past two weeks, to an average of $1.93 per gallon of self-serve regular, a national survey showed Sunday.
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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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NEW YORK  - Yes, you can be too thin -- if  you have rheumatoid arthritis. Weighing less than normal  appears to increase the risk of dying from heart disease for  people with arthritis, results of a population-based study  indicate.
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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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WASHINGTON  - American children and adults have become a little bit taller over the past 40 years, but a lot heavier, according to government statistics.
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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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Overindulge this holiday season? To make up for it, many people will shop for high-tech treadmills or mail-order machines that will shrink their thighs while they make low, low monthly payments.
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Obese people spend more time sitting than leaner persons, who tend to fidget and move more and in the process burn more calories, according to a US study released.
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Yes, you can be too thin -- if you have rheumatoid arthritis. Weighing less than normal appears to increase the risk of dying from heart disease for people with arthritis, results of a population-based study indicate.
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High gasoline prices not only slowed  fuel demand growth and cut sales of gas-guzzling vehicles in  2005, they also prompted Americans to drive less for the first  time in 25 years, a consulting group said in a report Thursday.
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Bad news for new Americans: A study published Wednesday shows that simply moving to the USA packs on the pounds. &quot;The longer you live here, the more likely you are to be obese,&quot; says Mita Sanghavi Goel, a
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Over the summer, rising oil prices meant higher gasoline costs for drivers in the United States. This winter, as crude oil touched $53 a barrel today, they will translate into higher heating bills for American households.
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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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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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City kids, like their country  cousins, are struggling with weight problems, U.S. researchers  reported on Monday.
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Fat Americans are eating into the US air industry&#39;s bottom line, forcing planes to consume ever more fuel to transport their bulk.