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Fat Epidemic/Obesity Linked To Chemicals Run Amok

We don’t use that polite phrase any longer. What changed? Now that about two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese, did those folks with “glandular problems” disappear? No; it’s just that many others have caught the same disease. Thanks to the obesogen effect, we may all be at risk for some glandular problems. Because [...]

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Is Obesity COntagious?

Is Obesity Contagious?

A new report published in the journal Pediatrics has many common sense folks scratching their heads in confusion. Childhood obesity has become a major problem with more than 17 percent of American children now overweight, and most people realize that poor diet and lack of exercise are to blame. But a new study has somehow [...]

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Overweight and Obesity, Unquestionable Challenges that Cannot be Postponed: President Calderón

President Calderón witnesses signing of National Agreement on Nutritional Health, urges media to publicize importance of healthy lifestyle. Mexico City – Because the solution to problems is to cope with them, rather than avoiding them, President Felipe Calderón urged all sectors of society to build a common front against overweight and obesity, one of the [...]

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McDonald’s says Ronald isn’t retiring

Jack Nugent urges a pedestrian to support his cause calling for McDonald’s to retire Ronald McDonald in March in Chicago. Activists have said clown leads children to bad food choices. That’s the message McDonald’s Corp.’s CEO Jim Skinner gave Thursday to the red-haired clown’s critics who say the cartoon promotes unhealthy eating and should go the [...]

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No Welcomes For Diabetes Destiny

  Before today’s kindergartners reach their college years, the number of people with diabetes is expected to at least double and the cost of diabetes care to at least triple in the U.S.—that is if we are to believe the conservative estimates of a recent study and consequent media reports (see here and here). As long as [...]

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