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Are you living in a healthy place?
WSBT-TVJust how healthy is the county you live in? A new study breaks down nearly every county in the country. The Robert Wood Johnson report released Wednesday looked at 25 factors, including childhood poverty, obesity and smoking rates, as well as social and...Tags: Family, Health, Obesity
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If you constantly carry an overweight purse, your health is at stake
We live in a world of super-sized handbags. Women can't live without them and actually some of us live out of them. But if you constantly carry an overweight purse, your health is at stake. Doctors are seeing more and more cases of "bag-itis" --...
Tags: Overweight, Back Pain, Neck Pain
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Obesity and cancer
WSBT-TVHow much you weigh could put you at major risk of developing cancer. In fact, doctors treat 100,000 cases every year, and those are only cancers linked to obesity. Body weight can determine who gets cancer, how you treat it and how likely you are to...Tags: Esophageal cancer, Health Treatments, Diseases and Illnesses, Healthy Diet, Obesity
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Poll: Obesity's a crisis but we want our junk food
WASHINGTON (AP) — We know obesity is a health crisis, or every new year wouldn't start with resolutions to eat better and get off the couch. But don't try taking away our junk food. Americans blame too much screen time and cheap fast food for...
Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Dining and Drinking, Washington, DC, Politics
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Purdue Extension studies obesity among rural kids
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Purdue Extension researchers are helping with a multi-state study that's seeking the causes of childhood obesity among preschoolers in the Midwest's rural areas. The federally funded study led by Kansas State University...
Tags: Medical Research, Obesity
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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: Overweight, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Weight Loss, Diets and Dieting, Consumers
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Diabetes rates rocket in Oklahoma, South
NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's diabetes problem is getting worse, and the biggest jump over 15 years was in Oklahoma, according to a new federal report issued Thursday. The diabetes rate in Oklahoma more than tripled, and Kentucky, Georgia and...Tags: Disease Prevention, Diseases and Illnesses, Diabetes, Obesity, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Booze calories nearly equal soda's for US adults
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans get too many calories from soda. But what about alcohol? It turns out adults get almost as many empty calories from booze as from soft drinks, a government study found. Soda and other sweetened drinks — the focus...Tags: Medical Research, Disease Prevention, Long Island, Coca-Cola Co., Wines
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Agencies get grants to address obesity in kids
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Department of Community Health has selected 10 agencies for a pilot program to help improve physical activity and healthy eating for children in kindergarten through sixth grade. The aim of $915,000 in grant...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Healthy Diet, Obesity
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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: Vehicles, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Health and Safety at Work, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Healthy Diet
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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: Amputation, Physiology, Insulin, University of Maryland, College Park, American Diabetes Association
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Disney shutters childhood obesity exhibit
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Walt Disney World says it is retooling an Epcot exhibit targeting childhood obesity after critics complained that it stigmatized fat kids. The Orlando Sentinel (http://thesent.nl/ylHSlk ) reported that the interactive Habit...Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Walt Disney, Health, Obesity
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