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'Green Reaper' Wants US to Be Green to the Grave
By David Moye - AOL News(April 22) -- Being dead as a doornail is apparently no excuse for not being concerned with the environment. That's why one mortician in Boring, Ore., is taking it upon herself to tell her customers how they can spend eternity without harming Earth -- by creating urns out of their leftover laundry lint. She's Elizabeth Fournier, but her customers know her as "the Green Reaper," for her expertise on green funerals, a movement gaining significant traction in the funeral business. Courtesy of Elizabeth Fournier Oregon-based funeral home director Elizabeth Fournier works on an urn made of ...
Michelle Obama: Mapping Obesity Strategy
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama revealed the broad contours of the Obama administration's childhood obesity drive during a meeting at the White House Tuesday with three cabinet members and four members of Congress. Next week, Mrs. Obama officially launches her signature initiative, taking on for the first time responsibility for a public policy project. She was joined by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in the Old Family Dining Room. She described components of the anti-obesity drive in broad terms: ...
In 9 Years, 43 Percent of Americans Will Be Obese
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- America, we have a weight problem. According to a new 20-year study released by the United Health Foundation, obesity is poised to become the No. 1 health problem over the next few years. If current trends are not curbed, the study says, more than 43 percent of U.S. citizens will be classified as "obese" by the year 2018. "Right now, tobacco is the No. 1 risk factor for death and disease in America," said Dr. Reed Tuckson, a board member at the United Health Foundation, a nonprofit organization that focuses on improving health care. "But over the last 20 years, we've seen a 129 ...
Kathleen Sebelius: Childhood Obesity Shortening Lives for This Generation
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyOne of the most troubling nuggets to come out of the Centers for Disease Control's Weight of the Nation conference on obesity prevention is that childhood obesity is so severe that the next generation could be the first in more than 200 years to live shorter lives than their parents. ...
Medical Costs of Obesity Nearly Double Over Past 10 Years
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyResearchers are warning that the cost of obesity is not measured just in terms of health, but also in dollars. A new study put the cost of obesity-related medical care at $147 billion in 2008, accounting for more than 9 percent of all medical expenditures in the United States. This is also a marked upswing from 10 years prior, when costs were just over $78 billion. The rate of obesity has climbed 37 percent in that 10-year span. The results of the study, published in the health policy journal Health Affairs, were presented Monday at the Centers for Disease Control's "Weight of the Nation" ...
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