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And of course, these endocrine disruptors are things that are implicated in the breast cancer epidemic, the obesity epidemic, the two and a half year drop in the average age of onset of puberty in young girls and other related things.
So we're seeing financial reward being used to tackle the great issue of obesity.
This was a beautiful movie and the theme was very appropriate...for adults that is....especially with the increase of obesity and metabolic disease in the world, there's nothing wrong with promoting vegetables and fruits for once...and this was accomplished in a very tasteful manner in that ...while people are concerned with the aspect of vegetables that doesn't necessarily mean that the are healthier or that they eat more of them...but just that they temper with nature, which is in fact what caused the legend of the were rabbit to come true.
Only the subject of obesity gives it any contemporary feel.
A drama about the working poor in London highlighting the kinds of problems a lot of people with limited resources face, such as alcoholism, obesity, and teen pregnancies.
More recently, it has become a food-industry craze, driven in part by fear of obesity lawsuits.
Now, the Mexican government has incorporated it into its national strategy to combat obesity and diabetes.
Those without insurance are more likely to experience conditions like obesity and addiction, and to let their health deteriorate before seeking medical attention.
Temperament, obesity, heart disease, intelligence, homosexuality or criminal behavior: everything is said to reside in the genes.
Fast Food’s “Ethnic Insights”NEW YORK – There is no denying the fast-food industry’s contribution to America’s obesity epidemic.
Indeed, McDonald’s – and other restaurants that sell products that contribute substantially to obesity – likely will continue to target this demographic.
In fact, this link represents the scope of Asia’s incipient obesity problem.
The Journal of Obesity reports that in India, as fast-food consumption – including sweetened carbonated drinks – has increased, so has the prevalence of obesity.
Even as fast-food chains have become a lightning rod for criticism on the topic of obesity, they continue to attract consumers within America’s tight-knit minority communities, particularly among their young people, who are less likely to reach their full potential if they are burdened by health problems associated with obesity.
For example, the best way to relieve back and neck pain is often to exercise, while treating underlying contributing factors like obesity.
Type 2 diabetes, the more common variant, is associated with inactivity, obesity, poor diet, and smoking – lifestyle factors common in rich and poor countries alike.
These include McDonald's ending its popular "supersized" portions in the name of discouraging obesity, and businesses adopting less efficient, more "sustainable" practices.
Indicators to be measured include not just rates of obesity, high blood pressure, and incidence of disease and related costs, but also absenteeism, school grades and graduation rates, employment statistics, accidents, and the like.
Consider how the fast-food industry uses oils, fats, sugar, and other addictive ingredients to create unhealthy dependency on foods that contribute to obesity.
Obesity is on the increase in Mexico.
If you’re looking for reasons behind today’s obesity epidemic, don’t stop with the usual suspects, all of which are being trotted out by the press: fast food, trans fat, high sugar, low exercise, computer games, strange bacteria in your gut, weird molecules in your blood.
All of these factors are certainly related to the "insidious, creeping pandemic of obesity . . .
Over the past several decades, standards of living, lifestyles, and biological risk factors have generally improved worldwide (obesity is an exception).
For starters, excessively high levels of meat and dairy consumption are contributing to nutrition-related health problems like obesity and cardiovascular disease.
Instead, what it has is widening income inequality, falling life expectancy, a rising suicide rate, and epidemics of obesity, opioid overdoses, school shootings, depressive disorders, and other grave ills.
Statistical analysis shows that states where more residents suffer from obesity, often because they get less physical exercise and eat more junk food, tend to vote Republican.
To illustrate, a mere 1% decrease in a state’s obesity on average is estimated to raise the ratio of Democratic to Republican voters from 1.00 to 1.07, easily enough to swing an election.
The average score of the five “reddest” states (Wyoming, Oklahoma, Utah, Idaho, and Alaska) is worse on each of six measures of irresponsibility than the average score of the five “bluest” (New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Hawaii): more obesity, smoking, chlamydia, teenage pregnancy, drunk-driving fatalities, and firearms assaults.
Meaty diets have created a global obesity problem, including, of all places, in China, whose expanding international clout is accompanied by expanding waistlines at home.
And now, in the United States – arguably the mother of global consumer culture – the debate has turned toward the fight against the epidemic of childhood obesity.
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