Obesity doubles in Sweden in 25 years
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The number of obese people in Sweden has doubled in the past 25 years, with one in 10 Swedes now considered largely overweight, a Statistics Sweden study showed.
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Germans have grown lazy over the last two generations and that has contributed to a worrying increase in obesity rates, according to a government study published on Wednesday.
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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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Rates of obesity and diabetes are rising across England, government data reveals.
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Evolution and the environment, not just  gluttony, has led to a global obesity pandemic, with an  estimated 1.5 billion people overweight -- more than the number  of undernourished people -- an obesity conference was told on  Monday.
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LAS VEGAS - Obesity researchers from around the world went home last weekend with new data to chew on. Several studies, released last week at the annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study
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ATLANTA Oct. 7, 2004 - Chronic kidney failure more than doubled in the United States in the 1990s another sign of the toll being taken by America&#39;s obesity epidemic, the government reported Thursday.
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Obesity is considered a major public-health problem, but many scientists are coming to see it as a comparative blessing, given the alternative.
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Obesity levels in Scotland are the second highest in the developed world, according to new statistics.
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Adults eat twice as many fruits and vegetables as they did when they were children and take in less fat and sugar, according to a new study.
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Researchers find that weight gain in middle-age occurs in two distinct phases.
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Stockholm - Gastric surgery is a more effective way to fight severe obesity than dieting, according to a Swedish study cited in the media here on Thursday.
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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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A study shows how an increase in soft drink consumption may be linked with obesity and type 2 diabetes. In recent years, both diabetes and obesity have increased dramatically in the USA.
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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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Obesity is considered a major public health problem today, but a number of scientists are coming to see it as a comparative blessing, given the alternative.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDayNews) -- Severely obese people wrack up almost twice the annual medical expenses as those who aren't overweight by the time they reach their golden years.