Topic: Obesity
F or all of its studies, commissions, focus groups and countless efforts to combat childhood obesity, the province has miles to go in delivering a ...
A shocking number of young city students are overweight or obese - with about half the youngsters in some zip codes tipping the scales too heavily...
With the start of the Jefferson Parish school year comes an initiative to strengthen students' bodies as well as their minds -- and a possibility...
theodp writes "The winners of the childhood obesity infographic design contest sponsored by GOOD and First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move...
Here is yet another survey with sobering conclusions about the state of health of the nation: Obesity is setting in earlier than the adolescence...
A new study is linking the popular weight loss drug Meridia to an increased risk of non-fatal heart attacks and stroke, although taking the drug...
Many Americans have skewed perceptions when it comes to their weight, often believing they are thinner than they really are, even when the scales ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on a mission to help create a transportation system that makes us fitter, not fatter. . The...
Only about one in every six Americans who have ever been overweight or obese loses weight and maintains that loss, according to Penn State College...
In a first person paper published in the Aug. 27, 2010 issue of Childhood Obesity, Dr. Melinda Sothern, Director of Health Promotion and Professor...
