Obesity Worldwide
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Sleep Duration and Obesity Linked
A systematic search of research literature has revealed a consistent worldwide relationship between short sleep patterns and obesity... Read more »
Do C-sections Put Children at Risk of Developing Obesity?
A controversial theory is surfacing suggesting that children born to moms who delivered via C-section may be at higher risk of developing... Read more »
Is Obesity a Disease?
Is obesity a disease? Or is it a result of bad lifestyle choices? Opinions were split about 50:50 among the attendees at a recent... Read more »
Attack obesity by identifying its cause
Is it the corn subsidies which make it easy for lots of corn based processed products to find their way to your supermarket and then... Read more »
A Worldwide Campaign to Stop Smoking
About a year ago I wrote about some of the issues surrounding smoking and schizophrenia; how the rate of smoking in people with this... Read more »
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Toxic Chemical Linked to Obesity
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A toxic chemical may be contributing to the worldwide obesity epidemic. Scientists recently observed that tributyltin -- a... Read more »
Obesity
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Nearly two-thirds of the United States population is overweight. There are many ways to determine if a person is overweight, but experts believe that... Read more »
Obesity
Source: HealthCentral Encyclopedia
Article updated and reviewed by Hubert Chen, MD, Associate Director of Medical Sciences, Amgen Inc. and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine... Read more »
Mental disorders affect productivity worldwide: WHO
A collaborative study by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, and Harvard University has found that mental disorders accounts for... Read more »
HIV is #1 killer of women worldwide
Officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) are reporting that HIV is now the top killer of women ages 14 to 49 worldwide. WHO experts say of... Read more »
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