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The article discusses various reports published within the issue including one on biomedical understanding of health and another one on obesity.
- Your Weight,Your Health. // Body Bulletin;Mar2002, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p5
Presents questions to determine if extra weight can be considered as a health concern.
- Q: Are the health risks of obesity exaggerated? Gaesser, Glenn A.; Fumento, Michael // Insight on the News;11/10/97, Vol. 13 Issue 41, p24
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- obesity blues. Deters, Tom // Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness;Jun95, Vol. 56 Issue 6, p12
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- Shape up or ship out? E.B. // Medical Update;Feb96, Vol. 19 Issue 8, p1
Reports on a Canadian study published in the December 27, 1995 `Journal of the American Medical Association' that sought to determine the health risks posed by an elevated body mass index (BMI) that is not associated with an elevated waist-to-hip ratio (WHR). Evaluation of patterns of blood...
- What's Obesity Got to Do With Management? // Public Management (00333611);Oct2002, Vol. 84 Issue 9, p30
Reports developments related to health in the U.S. as of October 2002. Rise in the prevalence of adolescent obesity; Health impacts of land-use decision making; Economic cost of obesity.
- America's health: slipping? Lee, Heather // Prevention;Sep2006, Vol. 58 Issue 9, p58
This article reports that a 2006 study by Harvard University and University College London found that, on average, Canadians and Britons enjoy better health than Americans. The discrepancy can be explained by the fact that U.S. doctors screen patients more rigorously for disease. The obesity...
- Fit and fat? Sullivan, Dana // Shape;Sep96, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p116
Focuses on new research which suggests that carrying some extra weight might not compromise health after all. Findings of a study at the Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas that overweight men who exercised regularly lived just as long as men of normal weight; Body Mass Index;...
- Being fat is deadly... // Consumer Reports on Health;Oct96, Vol. 8 Issue 10, p113
Reports on the health problems associated with obesity according to study findings by researchers in New York. Correlation between obesity and death rates.
- Acting on Australia's health: A study in obesity. Crawford, David // Nutridate;Aug2002, Vol. 13 Issue 4, p1
Focuses on obesity in Australia and its importance to health.
