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February 9, 2013
Results for: obesity

  • 28/05/2012 | World

    Friend groups may encourage kids to be more active

    Kids in after-school programs often increase their own physical activity if they make friends who run and jump around more than they do, a new study from Tennessee has found.

  • 16/11/2012 | World

    OECD report: Rising obesity strains Europe's shrinking health budgets

    More than half of Europeans are obese or overweight, adding significant pressure to healthcare costs at a time when spending is being cut by governments, the OECD and European Commission said today.

  • 09/08/2011 | World

    US churches pair faith with fighting obesity

    Pastor Michael Minor ruffled a few feathers when he took fried chicken off the menu at his Mississippi church a few years ago."I banned fried chicken from the fellowship hall. That was a traumatic time," Minor said of his rattled parishioners at Oak Hill Baptist Church in Hernando, Mississippi.

  • 27/08/2011 | World

    Obesity to worsen, weigh heavily on healthcare costs

    Obesity is most widespread in Britain and the United States among the world's leading economies and if present trends continue, about half of both men and women in the United States will be obese by 2030, health experts warned yesterday.

  • 02/03/2012 | World

    Disney closes controversial fat-fighting exhibit

    Obesity experts applauded Walt Disney World for shuttering a new attraction that drew fierce criticism for its potential to shame overweight children and misrepresent the causes of the global obesity crisis.


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