It's Making Us Fat: The New American Health Scourge : Overweight, with much to lose / Marian Uhlman.
by Uhlman, Marian; Uhlman, Marian; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 10Health. Publisher: Knight-Ridder, 2001ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Diabetes | Diet in disease | Exercise -- Health aspects | Lifestyles | Food consumption | Overweight women | Weight gain | Work environmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Overweight with much to lose" --- "The ballooning of the nation's girth is one of the country's top public-health concerns, and medical experts blame our push-button lives. The TV remote, the garage-door opener, the computer--these and more are robbing us of chances to move and burn calories. But that's just half the story, the experts say." (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) This article examines obesity in America and includes charts showing obesity increases by gender, ethnicity, and education level, along with the formula to calculate Body Mass Index.Summary: "Exercise, Diet Slash Diabetes Risk, Study Finds" --- "Moderate exercise--such as walking 30 minutes a day--and changes in diet can dramatically reduce the chance of getting diabetes for those most at risk a groundbreaking nationwide study reported yesterday [Aug. 8, 2001]." (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) This article reports on the results of the study which followed 3,234 people who were tested for an antidote to Type 2 diabetes.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: It's Making Us Fat: The New American Health Scourge--Overweight..., June 10, 2001; pp. A1+.
"Overweight with much to lose" --- "The ballooning of the nation's girth is one of the country's top public-health concerns, and medical experts blame our push-button lives. The TV remote, the garage-door opener, the computer--these and more are robbing us of chances to move and burn calories. But that's just half the story, the experts say." (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) This article examines obesity in America and includes charts showing obesity increases by gender, ethnicity, and education level, along with the formula to calculate Body Mass Index.
"Exercise, Diet Slash Diabetes Risk, Study Finds" --- "Moderate exercise--such as walking 30 minutes a day--and changes in diet can dramatically reduce the chance of getting diabetes for those most at risk a groundbreaking nationwide study reported yesterday [Aug. 8, 2001]." (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) This article reports on the results of the study which followed 3,234 people who were tested for an antidote to Type 2 diabetes.
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