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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder linked to adult obesity
Having childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could lead to a life of obesity, even if ADHD symptoms disappear in adulthood, a new study shows. The study, which followed up on 207 middle-class men who had been diagnosed with ADHD as...
Tags: Weight, Social Sciences, Body Mass Index, Culture, Substance Abuse
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Letters: Abercrombie and the rest of us
Re "Abercrombie's pitiful pitch," Perspective, May 14 Robin Abcarian is right that Abercrombie & Fitch's refusal to make clothes for women who aren't skinny smacks of elitism. However, should we embrace the figures — 5 feet 4 inches and 162...
Tags: Weight, Politics, Freedom of the Press, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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More gym for kids means less chance of obesity, Cornell study says
More physical education in kindergarten through fifth grade means less chance of obesity, especially for boys, researchers say. The study provides some of the first evidence of a causal effect between gym and childhood obesity. It is to be published...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Science and Technology, Weight, Body Mass Index, Medical Research
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Bill would ban junk food from vending machines at state offices
Proposed legislation to remove junk food and sugar-loaded drinks from vending machines at California state office buildings and on government property is intensifying debate about when the battle against obesity becomes a gateway to "nanny state" tactics....
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Coca-Cola Co., Local Government, Obesity, Career and Workplace
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Lack of strength training is most common U.S. health vice
Have you lifted weights today? Odds are, the answer is no. A new report on Americans’ health vices says failure to do strength-training exercises is far more common than the more obvious bad behaviors of smoking, heavy drinking, being a couch potato...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Weight, Social Issues, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee on family health
Former track and field Olympic champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee is no stranger to the benefits of daily workouts and a healthful lifestyle. As a six-time medal winner, she lived her life always in her own best shape. But many kids and families today face...
Tags: Family, Weight, Allergies, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Asthma
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TV's focus on childhood obesity hits home
I was a pioneer of childhood obesity. By the time I was a junior in high school, I weighed more than 200 pounds. I was a fat kid before being a fat kid made you the topic of a national conversation and the first lady's pet project, back when Gatorade...
Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Weight, Jamie Oliver, Obesity, Halloween
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Michael Mosley puts his health to many tests
The patient in his 50s was mildly overweight, had high cholesterol and was headed down the road to diabetes. Common problems, and his doctor made the usual recommendation: medications. But the patient, Michael Mosley — a British author, journalist,...
Tags: Science and Technology, Medical Procedures and Tests, Medical Research, United Kingdom, Allergies
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Letters: All hail the nanny in chief
Re "On the front lines of firearms debate," March 29 The National Rifle Assn. and others on the right may criticize New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as the "nanny in chief," but he is on to something. Look around you: Most people are overweight or...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Weight, Health Insurance Cost, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Same-Sex Marriage
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A tax on overweight airline passengers: a brutal airline policy
When teensy-weensy Samoa Airlines debuted its pay-by-the-kilo policy in January, I doubt it expected to set off an international controversy about fat discrimination. But that’s what happened when news seeped out this week after the airline&...Tags: Travel, Periodicals, Polynesia, Weight, ABC (tv network)
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Bacteria may provide some of gastric bypass surgery's boost
In the latest of a slew of studies examining the role of the so-called microbiome -- the mix of microscopic critters that colonize our bodies and our environment -- in human health, Harvard researchers said Wednesday that part of the reason that Roux-en-Y...
Tags: Science and Technology, Weight, Weight Loss, Massachusetts General Hospital, Obesity
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Kids' menus are not healthy, nutrition group says
Ninety-one percent of thousands of children’s meals at the biggest restaurant chains don’t meet standards set by the National Restaurant Assn.’s own initiative for healthful kids’ meals, a study out Thursday from a nutrition...
Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Weight, Food Industry, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking
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