Nearly 30 Percent of U.S. Workers Are Obese
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FRIDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- Nearly 30 percent of American workers are obese, which can reduce their productivity and greatly increase their cardiovascular disease risk factors.
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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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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 - for more than 10 years.
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A widely reported study  released earlier this year overstated the increase in obesity-related U.S. deaths by about 35,000, a the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday in admitting the miscalculation.
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The number of obese people in China doubled to 60 million people in the 10 years to 2002. China&#39;s first comprehensive national survey on diet, nutrition and diseases found that seven per cent of Chinese adults
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In the struggle against obesity, Americans are losing. Among the favorite targets for blame are fast-food chains such as McDonald's.
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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 remote controls and double cheeseburgers - for more than 10 years.
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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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Obesity is out of control with more than 300 million overweight adults worldwide, according to specialists at the first international obesity conference in Africa.
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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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BEIJING - The number of obese people in China doubled to 60 million in the 10 years to 2002. A comprehensive national survey on diet, nutrition and diseases found that seven per cent of Chinese adults are obese and nearly 23 per cent are overweight.
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More than three-quarters of obese Americans say they have healthy eating habits, according to a survey of more than 11,000 people.
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The gravy train &#151; make that the sausage, biscuits and gravy train &#151; just kept on rolling in most of America last year, with 31 states showing an increase in obesity.
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A growing number of Americans are being told they have  "metabolic syndrome," a diagnosis that has become alarmingly common, primarily because of the obesity epidemic.
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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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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) -- A new study involving more than  300,000 people finds that being overweight independently increases a person&#39;s risk of coronary disease.
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The growing number of obese Americans and the rising cost of caring for them is responsible for 27 percent of the increase in health-care costs since 1987, according to a study in the journal Health Affairs.