Obesity Linked to Neighborhood Features: Do You Live in a Fat Neighborhood?
What they found is that characteristics of the neighborhoods children live in could be contributing to the high rate of obesity in the US and elsewhere. In one study, researchers used geographic information to determine which neighborhoods in King …
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Medicare trustees update predictions today – Health care reform's Medicare …
The POLITICO story: http://politi.co/Jw7PFt DEMS: TARGETING OBESITY 'ESSENTIAL' – As HHS develops a proposed rule to implement its December essential health benefits bulletin, a group of House Dems are asking Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to keep obesity …
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Obese mothers 'more likely to have children with autism'
SACRAMENTO, California, USA: Obese mothers are twice as likely to have children with autism or other developmental problems, a study has found. Researchers found that women who were obese, or had conditions associated with being overweight such as type …
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