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- Parents May Underestimate Risks of Childhood Obesity (LiveScience.com)
- Czechs order obese soldiers to tighten belts (Reuters)
- More Americans developing gout; obesity blamed (Reuters)
- Experimental obesity drug beats placebo again (Reuters)
| Parents May Underestimate Risks of Childhood Obesity (LiveScience.com) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:40 AM PDT LiveScience.com - More than one in six American children and teens are obese, but a new poll suggests that parents and doctors don't always see eye-to-eye on the seriousness of the obesity epidemic. According to the new report, only about half of parents believe it is "very important" to seek medical care for an overweight child. |
| Czechs order obese soldiers to tighten belts (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:31 AM PDT Reuters - The Czech army has shrunk to just a quarter of its size since Prague shrugged off the yoke of Communism two decades ago, but a new report has prompted it to pursue a different type of downsizing. |
| More Americans developing gout; obesity blamed (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:20 AM PDT Reuters - A growing number of Americans are being diagnosed with the painful form of arthritis known as gout -- thanks in large part, researchers say, to the national obesity epidemic. |
| Experimental obesity drug beats placebo again (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 10:38 AM PDT Reuters - The experimental weight-loss drug lorcaserin may spur modest weight loss without the heart risks of some older drugs, a new clinical trial confirms -- though whether the medication will ever reach the market remains up in the air. |
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