Obesity not killing as many people as first thought, say US health ...
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US health officials from the CDC say that obesity is not killing as many people as first thought. They say the CDC will ask JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) to alter the figures it published in a study published last March.
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A state-by-state review of the nation&#39;s health shows that progress has stalled on the key issues of obesity and infant mortality, according to a new report.
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Federal health officials said Tuesday they had overestimated in a high-profile study the number of Americans dying from being overweight.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- A simple math error that led to a gross overstatement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the number of obesity related deaths in the US is just the
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Individuals are not to blame for the obesity crisis and the state must act, a major UK report concludes.
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ATLANTA - Mathematical errors may have caused scientists to inflate the number of obesity-related deaths in the US, health officials said Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - Some researchers are questioning whether national guidelines advising Americans to eat a low-fat diet have had the unintended consequence of feeding the current obesity epidemic.
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MONDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- More and more Americans are sliding into obesity, a clear signal that this national health problem is getting worse.
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Breast cancer is more likely to kill obese women than those of normal weight, research suggests.
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Loosen the belt buckle another notch America: Obesity rates continued their climb in 31 states last year. No state showed a decline.
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Exercise alone cannot totally offset the risk of premature death associated with obesity, research suggests.
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With Americans' obesity driving the focus on weight loss, scant attention is paid to the other side of the scale - underweight people who are trying to put on pounds.    Being underweight is not a common problem in the United States, affecting only about 2 percent of adults, compared to two-thirds who are overweight or obese...
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDay News) -- While there's more recognition of the obesity epidemic plaguing American children and many new programs to fight it, the effectiveness of these efforts is not clear, a new federal report warns.
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Obese heart attack and angina patients are more likely to survive after treatment, research suggests.
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Exercise has no effect on some people and doesn&#39;t always cut the risk of diseases such as diabetes, New Scientist reported, citing Claude Bouchard from Louisiana State University.
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Obesity is considered a major public-health problem, but many scientists are coming to see it as a comparative blessing, given the alternative.
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While being fat increases your chances of a heart attack, some studies suggest a puzzling paradox: Obese people seem to have a better chance of surviving one.