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'Anti-obesity law won't be enforced yet'

New Straits Times - Sun May 27, 10:03 pm ET

KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry will not implement any anti-obesity law by 2020 to check the drastic rise in non-communicable diseases in the country.

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Boomer Health: Obesity and its side effects reach all of us in one way or another
The Palm Beach Post - Fri May 25, 7:24 pm ET
Boomer Health: Obesity and its side effects reach all of us in one way or another
YMCA Combats Youth Obesity
KX TV North Dakota - Sun May 27, 10:20 pm ET
The Minot YMCA is launching a new program to combat youth obesity.With childhood and teen obesity on the rise, the Minot Family YMCA found a way to jump start a healthier lifestyle for young people. The
Obesity in pregnancy strongest predictor of large babies
Fox News - Wed May 23, 7:34 am ET
Obesity during pregnancy is the strongest predictor of whether a mother will give birth to a large infant, a new study suggests
As Obesity Rates Rise, Cases of Kidney Stones Double: Study
HealthDay via Yahoo! News - Fri May 25, 11:52 pm ET
FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) -- The number of Americans suffering from kidney stones has almost doubled since 1994, researchers report, and the obesity epidemic is the most likely reason why.
Correction: Obesity-Property Values story
Seattle Times - Fri May 25, 10:27 pm ET
In a May 24 story about obesity and property values, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian.
Obesity A National Security Issue, Experts Agree
National Journal via Yahoo! News - Thu May 24, 4:00 pm ET
Improving school lunches and nutrition education are a key way to get Americans healthy enough to join the military, and a badly divided Congress might be amenable to cooperating on this one issue, obesity policy experts said said Wednesday.
Fruit juice latest target in obesity campaign
Memphis Commercial Appeal - 1 hour 35 minutes ago
Over the last decade, the nation's war on obesity has targeted some fairly obvious culprits, including fast food, pastries, fried foods and soda.
Obesity not always tied to higher heart risk: study
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu May 24, 9:31 am ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An obese person isn't inevitably at increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death, a new U.K. study finds. "The people really at risk are the ones who have obesity in combination with other metabolic health risk factors," said Mark Hamer, a principal research associate at University College London who worked on the study. ...
Bahrain to launch anti-obesity campaign
UPI - Sun May 27, 1:21 pm ET
MANAMA, Bahrain, May 27 (UPI) -- Bahrain is set to launch a national campaign to combat obesity and unhealthy eating among children, officials said Sunday.
Tennessee Obesity Task Force takes on growing weight problem across state
Union City Messenger - Thu May 24, 10:14 pm ET
KNOXVILLE — Com-bating Tennessee’s obesity rate and that of the nation was on the agenda when 80 participants gathered for the Tennessee Obesity Task Force conference, held recently at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture.
Novo obesity drug seen with 43 percent chance of approval
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu May 24, 11:14 am ET
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish group Novo Nordisk's diabetes drug Victoza has a 43 percent chance of being approved as an obesity treatment in the United States, according to a Reuters poll which found Danish bank analysts had the highest expectations. Novo Nordisk, the world's biggest insulin producer, is in phase three of studies to use Victoza to treat obesity and expects the treatment to be ...
Study highlights a hunger-obesity paradox
WJXT Jacksonville - Fri May 25, 3:19 pm ET
Obesity is a widespread epidemic, even among the homeless.
Uncovering ‘fat genes’ in people could help preempt obesity, study shows
The Malaysian Insider - Sun May 27, 12:07 am ET
NEW YORK, May 27 — A new study adds to the growing evidence that the obesity epidemic could be caused by more than just poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyles. But before throwing in the gym towel, researchers are quick to point out that while some people pay be predisposed to obesity because of their genetic makeup, a healthy lifestyle can ...
Obesity Genes Linked To Increased Appetite, Poor Dietary Choices
redOrbit - Thu May 24, 10:16 am ET
[ Watch the Video ] Connie K. Ho for RedOrbit.com Researchers from The Miriam Hospital’s Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center recently acknowledged that people who have particular “obesity genes” are more likely to eat more meals and snacks as well as consume more calories or foods high in fat and sugar. The research, found in the June 2012 issue of the American Journal of Clinical ...
Anti-obesity proposal fails again at McDonald's
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu May 24, 2:25 pm ET
OAK BROOK, Ill., May 24 - McDonald's Corp investors soundly rejected a shareholder proposal that would have required the world's biggest fast-food chain to assess its impact on childhood obesity. The subject was a major topic of discussion at Thursday's annual shareholder meeting, which also served as a send-off for retiring Chief Executive Jim Skinner - whose nearly eight years at the helm will ...