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Michelle Obama Takes Obesity Drive To Fattest State -- Mississippi
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama brings her anti-childhood obesity drive to Mississippi -- the country's most overweight state -- on Wednesday, when she will appear with GOP Gov. Haley Barbour, who has left the door open to a 2012 White House run. Barbour cuts a portly profile; I saw him on Feb. 5 in Chicago, when he delivered a pep talk to Illinois Republicans. On Monday, in an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, he was reminded what he said last month about a 2012 campaign: "If you see me losing 40 pounds that means I'm either running or have cancer." Asked about 2012, Barbour, who is ...
Child Obesity in US Higher Than Ever
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Feb. 9) -- It's easy to see why Michelle Obama has launched a campaign to prevent America's children from putting on too much weight. Just look around the nation's schools and malls. Or, more to point of the first lady's Let's Move program, look at the kids sitting motionless in the glow of video screens from coast to coast. The chart below illustrates the dramatic increase in childhood obesity during the past three decades. Statistics collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from a variety of studies over the years show the percentage of school-age children (6-19) ...
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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