Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News

Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News


Cost of Obesity Approaching $300 Billion a Year (HealthDay)

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 09:02 AM PST

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 11 (HealthDay News) -- The total economic cost of overweight and obesity in the United States is $270 billion per year while the cost in Canada is about $30 billion a year, a new study shows.

For the Very Obese, H1N1 Was More Apt to Be Fatal (HealthDay)

Posted: 10 Jan 2011 08:47 PM PST

HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Extremely obese people had a significantly greater chance of dying than did others infected with the H1N1 swine flu virus that became a pandemic last winter, a new study reports.

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