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CONSUMER REPORTS: Top Diets
More than two-thirds of American adults are overweight, even obese. At the top of many New Year’s resolutions is the dreaded “D” word – diet. Consumer Reports’ just-released survey of 9,000 subscribers rates more than a...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Consumers, Diets and Dieting, Overweight, Weight
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Push for healthier truckers gains momentum
DALLAS (AP) — In the months after Doug Robinson started driving a truck, he noticed his clothes were increasingly more snug-fitting. He was already overweight but soon realized that spending up to 11 hours behind the wheel, frequently eating fast...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Sleep Apnea, Healthy Diet, High Blood Pressure, Asthma
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Bariatric surgery to cure Type 2 diabetes better understood
BALTIMORE — Days after undergoing gastric bypass surgery, Brenda Maker’s diabetes was gone — her body producing enough of the hormone insulin to turn sugar into fuel. It’s a phenomenon seen in recent years by doctors who...Tags: Science and Technology, Insulin, High Blood Pressure, American Diabetes Association, Diseases and Illnesses
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FDA approves first new weight loss pill in decade
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved Arena Pharmaceutical's anti-obesity pill Belviq, the first new prescription drug for long-term weight loss to enter the U.S. market in over a decade. The agency cleared the pill for...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Prescription Drugs, Washington, DC, Diabetes, Health Organizations
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The 'expanding' work force
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterSara Sauer was a fit athlete who played golf and softball at LaVille Junior-Senior High School in Lakeville, but when she graduated in 2004 and got an office job, she ballooned to up to more than 200 pounds. The weight piled on, she said, because of...Tags: Chicago Jobs, 2016 Olympic Games, Unions, Health, Economy, Business and Finance
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150 years of dieting fads and still no quick fix
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is preparing to weigh in with new U.S. dietary guidelines next week. So, the Library of Congress decided to take a look back by going into its archives and, with Weight Watchers International, gathering experts...Tags: Healthy Diet, Washington, DC, Weight Watchers International Incorporated, Physical Conditions, World War II (1939-1945)
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