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| One In Three UK Adults Will Be Obese By 2012 One in three UK adults-or 13 million people-will be obese by 2012, finds research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. And almost half of them will be from low income and disadvantaged communities, widening the health gap between the haves and have-nots even further, say the authors. The researchers draw their conclusions on an analysis of annual data between 1993 and 2004 from the Health Survey for England. medicalnewstoday.com |
Majority Of Fire And Ambulance Recruits Overweight Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), Boston Medical Center, Harvard University and the Cambridge Health Alliance found that more than 75 percent of emergency responder candidates for fire and ambulance services in Massachusetts are either overweight or obese. The findings, which appear online in the journal Obesity on March 19, have significant consequences for public health and safety. medicalnewstoday.com |
Obesity in Young Adulthood May Raise Pancreatic Cancer Risk People who were overweight as teenagers or young adults may be at increased risk of pancreatic cancer. nytimes.com |
US Breast Cancer Deaths Falling But Not For African Americans Despite it being the most common cancer among women, death rates due to breast cancer continue to fall in the US, except for African Americans, where the rate remains steady. A new American Cancer Society report, Breast Cancer Facts & Figures 2009-2010, released on 30 September, shows that breast cancer deaths have been falling in the US since the early 1990s, with the biggest drops in women under 50. medicalnewstoday.com |
Number Of Americans In Excellent Or Good Health Has Declined The New York Times reports on health in the U.S. "The percentage of people who reported having excellent or very good health declined to 66.6 percent in the 2009 period, from 69.1 percent in 1998. Americans report that they have been exercising more. Nevertheless, more than a quarter were obese in 2009 (with a body mass index of 30 or more), up from 19.5 percent in 1997... mnt.to |