The Checkup Archive: Obesity
Americans fatter than Canadians
Like many health problems, the obesity epidemic is worse in the United States than it is in Canada, according to a new government report released Wednesday. While obesity is increasing in both countries, less than a quarter -- 24.1 percent -- of Canadian adults are obese, compared to more than...
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Rob Stein
| March 2, 2011; 9:00 AM ET |
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Ranch dressing rules
For better or worse, ranch dressing is the most popular salad dressing in America. As I write in this week's "Eat, Drink and Be Healthy" column, it has overtaken Italian dressing as our dressing of choice, both at the store and at restaurants.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| March 1, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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Dietary Guidelines, Family Health, Nutrition and Fitness, Obesity, School Nutrition, Teens
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Survey your cereal
In this week's "Eat, Drink and Be Healthy" column I offer tips for adding more whole grains to your diet. The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010 want at least half the grains we eat in a day to be whole, not refined. Hardly any of us come anywhere close to meeting that goal, though: While the USDA says less than 5 percent of us consume those three daily servings of whole grains, we somehow manage to eat twice as many servings of refined grains as we should.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| February 22, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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Why is the whole world getting fatter?
At least the United States is not alone in getting fatter -- the entire world is gaining weight, too, according to a massive world weight project published yesterday and reported on by The Post's David Brown. "Our results show that overweight and obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are...
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Greg Linch
| February 4, 2011; 12:02 PM ET |
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Cardiovascular Health, Health News, Obesity
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FDA rejects another diet pill
The federal government has rejected yet another new weight-loss drug. The Food and Drug Administration notified Orexigen Therapeutics of San Diego that it would not authorize the sale of the drug Contrave, according to a statement released Tuesday by the company. The FDA "noted concern about the cardiovascular safety profile"...
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Rob Stein
| February 1, 2011; 8:46 AM ET |
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New dietary guidelines, boiled down
Are you as excited as I am about the release yesterday of the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010? Probably no one is more excited, or perhaps relieved, than the folks who have been working for years to craft the new document. They've had to sort through lots of scientific evidence and consider the opinions of everyone from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association to the pro-vegetarian Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine as to what the document should advise about how Americans should eat.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| February 1, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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