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America — Land of the Free and Home of the Obese
Americans are inundated with information about how we have become a physically unfit nation. Even though our life expectancies have not fallen, we are having to spend more and more health care dollars...
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Does Higher-Intensity Exercise Produce More Results?
Over time, running may produce greater weight loss than walking, especially in men and overweight women, according to research published in the official journal of the American College of Sports...
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Longer Gym Class Periods Reduce Childhood Obesity
More time in gym class actually does reduce the likelihood that young children will become obese, according to a new study published in the Journal of Health Economics. The findings are some of the...
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The AMA Says Obesity is a Disease; Now We Need to Inform Them How to Best...
My first reaction to hearing that the American Medical Association (AMA) had voted to classify obesity as a disease last month was a positive one. That was until I heard the excited comments from those...
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Call to Replace BMI with More Accurate Predictions of Disease
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine point out that the body mass index (BMI), based on the weight and height, is not an accurate measure of body fat content and does not account for...
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