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- Tennessee Department of Health initiatives working to improve overall health outcomes
- Compared to other states, Tennessee currently ranks 46th for overall health outcomes--a poor showing and completely unacceptable to the state's public health leadership. Armed with strong evidence that better lifestyle and behavior choices are critical to improving this ranking, two statewide initiatives are taking aim at major contributors--our poor dietary...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Super Bowl Champion Eli Manning Challenges Nation to Be Active
- To: SPORTS EDITORS Contact: Melinda Cooke of National Press Club, +1-202-662-7516, mcooke@press.org; or Joey King of HHS, +1-202-690-5181, russell.king@hhs.gov WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eli Manning, NFL Most Valuable Player 2008 and the quarterback of Super Bowl XLII Champions New York Giants, will address a National Press Club breakfast...
- Research articles 2008-03-11
- Weight-Loss Surgery Can Cure Diabetes for the Obese
- Bariatric Partners: New study reported by the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that surgical weight loss can play a significant factor in controlling in Type 2 diabetes. HOUSTON -- An estimated three in every four obese people suffering from diabetes can be cured of the disease with...
- Research articles 2008-02-21
- Dieting behaviors of young women post-college graduation
- Obesity is a major public health epidemic in the United States. During the past decade, obesity has increased across all education levels, including college graduates. The purpose of this research was to study the health decisions that young women, post-college graduation make regarding their food intake. The subjects in this...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- The heavy, heavy burden of obesity: obesity increases the cost of workers' compensation claims and the risk of traumatic workplace injuries, new surveys show
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Summary * Obesity claims in the United States are rising in number and in severity, according to a new study. * Having a body mass index in the overweight or obese range increases the risk of traumatic workplace injury, a separate study has found. ...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Experts liken fight against fat to anti-smoking campaign
- NEW ORLEANS AFP — The fight against obesity can only be won if tackled with the same determination as the decades-old US campaign to end cigarette smoking, leading experts in America's battle of the bulge say. "It took almost 40 years to start to change tobacco, and I think...
- Research articles 2007-10-23
- Pay obese to lose weight, Australian doctors urge
- SYDNEY AFP — Overweight people should be paid to attend weight-loss programmes to reduce the impact the growing obesity epidemic is having on the healthcare system, a group of Australian doctors said Wednesday. Obesity has more than doubled in Australia in the last 20 years and is placing an...
- Research articles 2007-09-12
- HEALTH : INDUSTRY URGED TO DO MORE TO COMBAT OBESITY.
- The European Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health, created by the European Commission, has been operating for two years. Bringing together industry, NGOs and member state representatives, its primary mission is to combat the progression of obesity in the EU. "At a given...
- Research articles 2007-05-04
- HEALTH : AGRI-BUSINESS INDUSTRY URGED TO DO MORE TO COMBAT OBESITY.
- The European Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health, created by the European Commission, has been operating for two years. Bringing together industry, NGOs and member state representatives, its primary mission is to combat the progression of obesity in the EU. "At a given...
- Research articles 2007-04-30
- Half of Spaniards overweight: ministerial study
- MADRID AFP — More than half of the adult population of Spain and one in four youngsters are overweight or obese, according to a ministry of health study released Monday. "Fifty two percent of the adult population and 27.6 percent of children are either overweight or obese," the ministry...
- Research articles 2007-04-30
- Childhood obesity: Breast is not necessarily best
- PARIS AFP — Long-term research into obesity suggests that being breastfed as a child does not help prevent obesity later in life, a finding that contradicts guidelines in the United States and elsewhere. Investigators in the United States looked at the health of 35,000 nurses working in the US...
- Research articles 2007-04-23
- Medica Supports Minnesota Partnership
- Awards $5 Million for Cancer, Heart Research MINNETONKA, Minn. -- Medica, through its grant-making arm the Medica Foundation, has awarded $5 million to the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics to support three research projects in cancer and heart disease, as well as two projects to provide critical...
- Research articles 2007-04-18
- Obesity doubles in Sweden in 25 years
- STOCKHOLM AFP — 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. Obesity is now as common among women as men, according to the report, which was published on Tuesday...
- Research articles 2007-03-07
- Japanese officials bare bellies online to fight obesity
- TOKYO AFP — Two middle-aged Japanese bureaucrats showed their bulging bellies to the nation as they kicked off a diet blog as part of a national campaign to fight growing obesity. Vice Health, Labor and Welfare Ministers Noritoshi Ishida and Keizo Takemi were both pictured on their blog lifting up...
- Research articles 2006-12-04
- Obesity the cost of prosperity, multi-level action required
- Obesity is the cost of economic prosperity, McMaster University Professor Sonia Anand offers in a comment article, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Oct. 24, 2006 issue. She says action at all levels of government is required to deal with the issue. Responding to a report by TH Jafar and associates...
- Research articles 2006-11-20
- AOTA's Statement on Obesity
- Obesity is the result of complex social, behavioral, cultural, environmental, physiological, and genetic factors. In the United States, 65% of adults and one-third of the children and adolescents are overweight secondary to diet and sedentary lifestyle (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [DHHS], 2006c). Obesity is the leading modifi-...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- France's waistlines spreading further
- PARIS AFP — Nearly a third of France's population is overweight or obese, and waistlines are continuing to expand. A new survey titled ObEpi 2006 and carried out by TNS Healthcare Sofres, found that 19.8 million people out of France's population of 63 million were packing excess weight, and that...
- Research articles 2006-09-19
- Study Finds Some Faithful Less Likely to Pass the Plate.
- Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 24 AScribe Newswire -- Religious shepherds need to keep better watch over their flocks and add activities to keep from fattening them up, says a Purdue University researcher who has found that some religious activities may promote...
- Research articles 2006-08-24
- Obesity epidemic in US under-estimated by up to 50 percent: study
- PARIS AFP — The prevalence of obesity in the US states has been under-estimated by as much as 50 percent, according to a study. In 2002, 28.7 percent of adult American men and 34.5 percent of American women were clinically obese, compared to the conventional estimates for that year...
- Research articles 2006-04-26
- Obesity rising in the United States - but not among women
- WASHINGTON AFP — The number of overweight and obese children, teenagers and adult males in the United States grew significantly from 1999 to 2004, but among women it remained unchanged, a government study has found. Obesity continues to be a major public health concern, researchers for the federal Centers...
- Research articles 2006-04-05
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