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- Overweight, Obesity Threaten U.S. Health Gains. // FDA Consumer;Mar/Apr2002, Vol. 36 Issue 2, p8
Outlines the report 'The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity.' Statistics on the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the U.S. in 1999 and 2000; Recommendation on strategies that can be used by communities to address the problems associated with...
- Prevention of obesity gets top billing. Berg, Frances M. // Healthy Weight Journal;Sep/Oct95, Vol. 9 Issue 5, p87
Presents pilot programs aimed at preventing obesity in high-risk populations. Obesity rates in American adults; Critical life periods; High-risk groups; School-based programs; Family-based programs; Community-based programs; Environmental change; Research needs. INSET: Prevention goals..
- Obesity prevention in monkeys gives major health. // Healthy Weight Journal;Sep/Oct95, Vol. 9 Issue 5, p89
Reports that ideal obesity prevention studies can be carried out with nonhuman primates. Difficulty of studying longterm obesity prevention programs in humans; Similarities between spontaneous adult-onset obesity in monkeys and in humans; Study of longterm caloric restriction in which body...
- Global obesity. // Healthy Weight Journal;May/Jun97, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p46
Highlights the action plan developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to combat the global prevalence of obesity. Rise in obesity in developing and developed countries; Goals of the plan.
- Cellulite meltdown? // Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness;Aug93, Vol. 54 Issue 8, p30
Gives advice on how to remove cellulite. Fat deposits on thighs, hips and buttocks; Use of creams; Diet and exercise; Cosmetic surgery.
- The United States of obesity? Jacobson, Michael F. // Nutrition Action Health Letter;Sep94, Vol. 21 Issue 7, p3
Provides suggestions on how to prevent obesity in the United States. Reasons for the obesity of Americans; Tips to reshape the society.
- How to reduce childhood obesity. // USA Today Magazine;Mar94, Vol. 122 Issue 2586, p11
Reports on the relationship between family communication and obesity in children. Incidence of obesity among children and adolescents in the United States; Improved family communication skills as a tool for reducing obesity; Failure of child obesity treatments; Involvement of the parents in...
- An idea whose time has come: Primary prevention of obesity. Williamson, David F.; Kuester, Sarah // Obesity & Health;Sep/Oct93, Vol. 7 Issue 5, p89
Proposes that the obesity research community seriously consider the concept of primary prevention as a means of reducing the prevalence of obesity. Questions about the optimum primary prevention approach; Obesity as a major public health problem; More.
- Preventing obesity. // Obesity & Health;Jan/Feb94, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p11
Comments on a presentation by William H. Dietz, MD, PhD, on the possible effects of television viewing habits on obesity. Study of obesity in adults males; Report from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conference on Physical Activity and Obesity, in Bethesda, Maryland, December 1992;...
