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June 14, 2004

A Fit Baby Equals A Fit Adult

The Rugged Elegance Inspiration Network: SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Lucy Brown somersaults backward down a ramp, leaps over a mat, rolls across a platform, jumps a series of hoops, squats into a yoga pose and hops over a row of...

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May 31, 2004

Driven To Obesity?

CTV.ca | CTV News (Canada): You could be driving up your weight -- literally. According to a new study, the length of time spent driving translates into the size of the "spare tire" around your waist. Even more than income,...

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May 27, 2004

Parliment Demands Annual Fat Test For Children

Times Online (UK): All children will be ordered to have an annual -- to prevent them becoming so obese that they die before their parents, under proposals being considered by ministers. The plan follows a scathing report on the obesity...

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May 10, 2004

Discoveries Show How Obesity Kills

Yahoo! News: Research into the biology of fat is turning up some surprising new insights about how obesity kills. The weight of the evidence: It's the toxic mischief of the flesh itself. Experts have realized for decades that large people...

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May 8, 2004

Global Obesity

My Way News: About every fourth person on Earth is too fat. Obesity is fast becoming one of the world's leading reasons why people die. In an astonishing testament to globalization, this outbreak of girth is occurring just as doctors...

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May 7, 2004

Low-Carb Impact Affecting Krispy Kreme

Yahoo! News: Could the Krispy Kreme doughnut be the latest victim of the low-carb diet craze? The Winston-Salem-based doughnut maker said Friday that it is cutting its profit projection for this year by 10 percent because of lower demand for...

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May 4, 2004

Abbott Labs Awaits Approval For Nonstop Glucose Monitor

Wall Street Journal: Measuring the level of glucose in the blood is a daily chore for the estimated 13 million people in the U.S. diagnosed with diabetes, one that involves pricking the skin and drawing blood. It's also a good-sized...

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May 3, 2004

Companies Rush to Sell Low-Carb Products

Baltimore Sun: Take a piece of pita bread, a little tuna, some olives and capers and -- presto -- it's a low-carb "sort of Mediterranean" pizza. The impact of the Atkins diet, the South Beach diet and other low-carbohydrate eating...

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April 29, 2004

Key Breakthrough In Obesity Research

ScienceDaily: Saint Louis University researchers believe they've won a major skirmish in the battle of the bulge, and their findings are published in the May issue of Diabetes. "We figured out how obesity occurs," says William A. Banks, M.D., professor...

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April 26, 2004

Diabetes Reportedly to Double Worldwide by 2030

Yahoo! News: Diabetes rates will double worldwide by 2030, to 366 million people with the disease, even if the obesity rate remains stable, an international team of researchers reported on Monday. But the rate will go up even higher if,...

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April 19, 2004

Southern Arizona: Epicenter of Obesity Epidemic

The Arizona Daily Star: Americans are in grave danger of undoing the greatest achievement of medical science - the doubling of the human life span from four decades just a century ago to nearly 80 years today. The culprits are...

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April 9, 2004

Has Obesity Met Its Match In Rimonabant?

BW Online: The French pharma Sanofi is getting positive results so far with a drug that suppresses appetite. And it may have cardiac benefits, too At the American College of Cardiology annual meeting last month, Paris-based Sanofi-Synthelabo caused a stir...

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March 31, 2004

Low-Carb Revolution Shakes Food Industry

Louisville CourierPress: America's growing appetite for low-carbohydrate foods has left people like Tony Stallone struggling to keep pace with demand. A vice president at online grocer Peapod, Stallone already offers more than 300 low-carb products featured in a special "aisle"...

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March 24, 2004

Medicare Overseers Expect Soaring Costs

New York Times: Medicare's financial condition has significantly deteriorated, partly because of exploding health costs and partly because of the new Medicare law, the government reported on Tuesday. In its annual report to Congress, the Medicare board of trustees said...

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March 22, 2004

The Epidemic of Stomach Stapling

Reuters.com Just when the U.S. government has declared obesity a public health crisis, insurers are growing more skeptical of drastic -- and expensive -- remedies like "stomach stapling" surgery. Demand is skyrocketing for these bariatric surgeries, which shrink the stomach...

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March 18, 2004

Nestle Turns To 'Phood' For Growth

Wall Street Journal (subscription): With the industry facing stagnant sales growth, Nestle is looking for growth in the intersection of food and pharmaceuticals -- a niche of nutritionally enhanced products known in the business as "phood." The company is betting...

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March 10, 2004

Rimonabant: Quit Smoking & Lose Weight

KansasCity.com: How's this for a salubrious daily double - a pill that helps you quit smoking and lose weight at the same time? An experimental drug shows significant promise of doing just that, according to two studies presented Tuesday at...

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March 9, 2004

Obesity To Surpass Tobacco As #1 Killer

Yahoo! News: Americans are sitting around and eating themselves to death, with obesity closing in on tobacco as the nation's No. 1 underlying preventable killer. The government is offering constructive, even lighthearted, advice to fight what it calls an epidemic...

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More Complex Carbs + More Exercise = Greater Weight Loss

WebMD: The thinnest people eat the most carbs, a four-nation survey shows. If you've been following the latest U.S. diet fads, that isn't what you'd expect. But the data come from an intensive, four-nation study of more than 4,000 men...

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March 8, 2004

Childhood Obesity Programs Lacking

San Jose Mercury News: By the time children are referred to a program such as Kaiser's, obesity has often taken a heavy emotional toll. More failure will hurt badly. Yet to succeed, they have to dramatically change the way they...

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March 7, 2004

Childhood Obesity Rate Triples

San Jose Mercury News: The alarm over childhood obesity rang in 2002. New data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey showed that 15.5 percent of children were seriously overweight and 15 percent more were at risk of becoming...

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March 4, 2004

Obese Women Earn 30% Less

Indiana Printing & Publishing: Being fat may hurt your income - if you're a highly educated woman. So says research from Finland that suggests weight is a pay barrier for certain women, but not for men. Obese women who are...

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March 1, 2004

The "Super Sizing" of America

New York Times: For the first time since World War II, a national survey has sized up the average American body, not just by weight and height or even the standard chest-waist-hip routine, but in more than 240 measurements tip...

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February 22, 2004

Vegetarians vs. Atkins: Diet Wars Are Almost Religious

She charges that his group is like the Taliban. He claims that her group's dangerous message has "spread like a virus across North America, Europe and elsewhere." The issue inspiring such invectives? Not religion, but diets. The latest spat...

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February 19, 2004

Low-Carb Boom Isn't Just For Dieters Anymore

New York Times: Marc and Connie Foreman are not on the Atkins, South Beach, Zone, Lindora or any other low-carbohydrate diet. Yet here they were, waiting for a table at T.G.I. Friday's, a restaurant they have only driven past for...

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February 10, 2004

Leptin Turns Fat-Storing Cells Into Fat-Burning Cells

University of Texa Southwestern Press Release: Increasing leptin, a protein involved in regulating body weight, in laboratory animals transforms fat-storing cells into unique fat-burning cells, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas report. They speculate that these findings could...

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February 8, 2004

Low-Carb Impact

Times Dispatch: Restaurants everywhere are racing to put low-carb foods on their menus, as Americans turn en masse to the high-protein, low-carb lifestyle. Cheeseburgers and bunless burgers are rampant, as are buffalo wings and sour cream. But there are casualities,...

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February 4, 2004

High-Carb Foods In A Low-Carb Nation

New York Times: While only about 3.5 percent of Americans, or about 10 million people, are following a low-carb diet, about four times that many people have tried such diets within the last year, according to the NPD Group, a...

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February 3, 2004

Is Low-Carb Pizza Next?

Albany Democrat-Herald: Pizza might be hailed as the food of the gods, one of America's best-loved meals, a hearty delectable dish that fills the stomach and seems to soothe the soul. But to low-carb dieters, it's just a gut-busting disk...

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January 30, 2004

Study: Toddlers Need More Exercise

Yahoo! News: New research suggests even 3-year-olds aren't getting enough exercise, raising concerns over their weight, future disease risk, psychological well-being, behavior and learning ability. In the first study to rigorously track the movements of preschoolers, scientists found that the...

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January 7, 2004

McDonald's Suggests Low-Fat Menu Option

Yahoo! News: With Americans fattening up and fast food on the defensive, McDonald's this week began telling dieters in the New York area how much fat and carbs are in some of its meals. New posters and brochures, prominently displayed...

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The Fight Against Childhood Obesity

Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier: In a cheery elementary school classroom with red window panes and crayon drawings tacked on the walls, a class of 3-year-olds are doing their "yoga," transforming themselves into lions and butterflies. "Let's be froggies!" instructor Anne Jeffries...

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January 6, 2004

Sperm counts have dropped by a almost third in 10 year

Yahoo! News: Male sperm counts have fallen by almost a third since 1989, with factors such as drinking and obesity possibly to blame, according to a British study. A survey of 7,500 men who attended the Aberdeen Fertility Centre in...

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December 23, 2003

Stampede of Diabetes as U.S. Races to Obesity

The New York Times: The incidence of diabetes has been rising in recent years, in children as well as in adults. Considering only diagnosed cases in adults, the prevalence rose 40 percent in the 1990's, from 4.9 percent to 6.9...

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December 19, 2003

Egg Prices and Consumption Climb

KAIT (Arkansas): Egg prices are up, way up. In fact, the price of eggs jumped up another nickle a dozen this week, even though as Americans, we are eating more eggs than ever before. According to the United Egg Producers,...

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Alcohol Industry Rides the Atkins Craze

CommentWire by Datamonitor: Diageo, the maker of Smirnoff, has announced a string of national cable ads with a simple message - zero carbs. As the fight for the Atkins dollar gets fiercer, spirit and beer marketers alike have begun to...

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December 18, 2003

Book: Underage and Overwight

Amazon.com Review: Frances Berg, MS, LN, has spent years researching and writing about weight and eating. Now, in response to the growing crisis affecting America's youth, she brings her lifetime of knowledge to bear on the problem of obesity in...

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December 17, 2003

Kraft Co-CEO Betsy Holden Demoted After Setbacks

FOXNews.com: Betsy Holden, under fire for months as Kraft Foods Inc. struggled through a down period, lost her job as co-chief executive when the food and beverage giant abandoned its dual CEO structure and left�Roger Deromedi in charge. ... American...

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CKE Restaurants Tout 'Low-Carb' Burger

Yahoo! News: Hardee's and Carl's Jr. fast-food chains consider it thinking outside the bun -- capitalizing on America's low-carbohydrate craze, they're launching a bunless, lettuce-wrapped burger with just a handful of carbs. CKE Restaurants Inc., the chains' parent, has unveiled...

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December 16, 2003

F.D.A. Moves to Let Drug Treat Obese Teenagers

The Food and Drug Administration effectively approved the use of an obesity drug, Xenical, for adolescents yesterday. This is the first time that a weight-loss drug has been permitted to treat overweight children. A spokeswoman for the drug agency...

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December 9, 2003

America�s Meal Consumption and Snacking Habits: Convenience = $$s for Manufacturers

MRONS: According to findings from the newly released IRI study, What Do Americans Really Eat? ready-to-eat snack products with strong convenience benefits are fulfilling the demand for snacks and meal replacements for on-the-go consumers. According to Kim Feil, division president...

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Dining Chain Serves Up A Low-Carb Recipe For Financial Growth

Yahoo News: In fact, one in every seven Americans over the age of 18 is on a low-carb diet in some form, says Richard Johnson, senior vice president of marketing at casual dining chain Ruby Tuesday Inc. Food and beverage...

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December 4, 2003

Generation D: Young Adults with Diabetes

ABCNEWS.com: Type 1 diabetes, in which the body does not produce insulin, is traditionally seen in children and adolescents. But over the last decade, type 2 diabetes -- formerly known as adult-onset diabetes -- has increased by 70 percent in...

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December 2, 2003

Doctors Urged to Sceen for Obesity

YahooNews: All adults should be screened for obesity and obese patients should be offered intensive counseling and behavioral interventions to help them achieve and maintain a healthy weight, says a new report by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The...

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November 30, 2003

UK obesity epidemic not our fault, say food firms

Independent: The heads of McDonald's, Cadbury Schweppes and Pepsi said yesterday that their products were not to blame for Britain's obesity epidemic. The chief executives of the three companies claimed that heavy marketing of junk food, "super size" portions and...

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November 29, 2003

As Obesity Rises, Health Care Indignities Multiply

New York Times: Obesity is the fastest-growing major health problem in the United States. In 2000, 31 percent of American adults were obese, up from 23 percent in 1990 and 13 percent in 1960, according to the Centers for Disease...

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November 28, 2003

Australia's Ministers deny TV advertising helps to fuel child obesity

TheAge: Australia's health ministers have rejected widening calls for a ban on television food advertising aimed at children, saying there is no evidence that promoting fatty, sugary foods to children makes them overweight. The Australian Medical Association yesterday joined most...

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November 27, 2003

Digital Scanners Resize America

New York Times: ... But the buzz at her Midwestern agency - and in the fashion buyers' offices of New York and the garment factories of Hong Kong - is that the current specifications for every size, from 1X to...

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November 24, 2003

More Restaurants Start To Cash In On Low-Carb Craze

WRAL (Raleigh, NC): They are often debated, but low-carbohydrate diets are more popular than ever. Still, many dieters get bored eating the same type of food every day. In the past, eating out left even fewer options, but restaurants are...

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November 19, 2003

Coca-Cola to stop TV ads aimed at children

Independent.co.uk: Coca-Cola is to stop aiming its TV commercials at children. The world's biggest soft drinks company said yesterday that it had abandoned so-called pester power advertising that tries to make children bully their parents into purchasing decisions. The decision...

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