Officials break down wall of a home in Wales to get an obese teen out and to a hospital full story ![]()
We’ve all heard the startling statistics about obesity in America: over one third of American adults are obese (almost 36%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Obesity puts us at risk for all kinds of health problems, including heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain cancers. And it doesn’t afflict everyone equally: nearly 50% of blacks...
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Overweight and obese patients might not be the only ones who dread the number on the scale each time they visit the doctor's office.
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Denise Petty, from Walsall, in the West Midlands, was so embarrassed by the incident she resolved to take action.
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Obese cardiac patients are more likely to survive than their normal weight peers, scientists claim.
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The survey, from Gallup and Healthways, listed Boulder, Colo., as the area with residents least likely to be obese.
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The Senate voted 24-16 for its budget Thursday, which will now have to be reconciled with the House's budget. Both chambers cut some from Gov. Sam Brownback's budget proposal, but the Senate hewed far closer to it than the House, which had to make deeper cuts because its members refused to extend a sales tax increase. For example, the House offered a 4 percent cut to higher...
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Brazilian law requires FIFA to make seats available for disabled people, which includes the obese.
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Brazilian law requires FIFA to make seats available for disabled people, which includes the obese.
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An obese dog gets his excess skin whacked off. CNN's Jeanne Moos has the skinny on formerly fat Obie the dachshund.
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Joanna Rainey had no idea she was overweight until a doctor told her bluntly she was obese. That was just the trigger she needed to change her life dramatically.
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