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OUR HEALTH: Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus. The data is startling, and it’s getting worse.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, diabetes affects more than 25 million people in the U.S., or 8.3 percent of the population. It’s the seventh leading cause of...Tags: Salem (Salem, Virginia), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Healthy Diet, Medical Research, Arts and Culture
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OUR HEALTH: Is Your Pet Battling the Bulge?
Americans are becoming increasingly overweight or obese, exercising less, and eating unhealthy foods, according to the recently released results of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. The results show that 63.1% of adults in the U.S. were either...Tags: Mental Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Human Body, Weight, Hormones and Metabolism
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Salem man loses 200 pounds: How he did it
WDBJ-TV Anchor/ReporterCan you think of six little words that would make you change your life? A Salem man says that's all it took to wake him up. As of today he's lost 200 pounds and the cloud of depression that suffocated his life. These days you'll likely find Rick...Tags: Weight, Health, Physical Conditions
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Updated guidelines for pregnancy weight gain
The majority of American women who are of childbearing age are either overweight or obese. This can affect how much they can afford to gain during pregnancy. The Institute of Medicine recently updated its recommendations. There is now a new weight...Tags: Gynecology, Health and Medical Professionals, Obesity, Health, Obstetrics
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Schools should make exercise 'core' subject, U.S. panel urges
Reuters* Few students get recommended daily hour of exercise * 44 percent of schools cut exercise for more reading, math By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - U.S. schools need to boost efforts to get students moving, and make gym class as critical...Tags: Nike, Inc., Health and Safety at School, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Dwayne Johnson, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Letters to the editor: Obesity, scandals, and McCartney
I am a retired physical-education teacher who worked with students from kindergarten through eighth grade. A majority of my students could not do one pull-up. I tried to be creative and make exercising fun, for which I had a fair amount of success. I am...Tags: Services and Shopping, Elections, Justice System, Ticketmaster, Crime, Law and Justice
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Why we marinate
OK, so I'm no Margaret Mead, but it seems to me that if one of humanity's oldest inclinations is to throw raw meat onto a fire, then its second oldest has to be to throw it first into a marinade. With grilling season upon us, our grills are calling...
Tags: Limes, Cooking and Gastronomy, Garlic, Wines, Animal
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More gym for kids means less chance of obesity, Cornell study says
More physical education in kindergarten through fifth grade means less chance of obesity, especially for boys, researchers say. The study provides some of the first evidence of a causal effect between gym and childhood obesity. It is to be published...
Tags: Health Organizations, Body Mass Index, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Obesity, Weight
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Lack of strength training is most common U.S. health vice
Have you lifted weights today? Odds are, the answer is no. A new report on Americans’ health vices says failure to do strength-training exercises is far more common than the more obvious bad behaviors of smoking, heavy drinking, being a couch potato...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Weight, Social Issues
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Pregnant With Diabetes? How To Keep You And Your Baby Safe
Endocrinologist and Hospital of Central Connecticut medical staff memberHaving a baby brings feelings of joy and excitement—but complications can occur for both mother and child if diabetes is present or develops. Some women may develop gestational diabetes, when excess sugars from digested foods build up in the...Tags: Kidney Disease, Miscarriage, Diabetes, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health and Medical Professionals
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Surgery offers mixed benefits for kids' sleep apnea
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study has confirmed that removing the tonsils and adenoids of children with obstructive sleep apnea can reduce sleepiness and improve the quality of life, but putting off the surgery might not hurt either. The study is...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Weight, Sleep Apnea, Human Interest, Medical Research
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Local Voices, May. 22
Hospital charges This is in response to the extensive article on the variations of same-procedure charges ("An acute gap in prices at hospitals; U.S. list offers look at billing disparities for same procedure," Page 1, May 9). Not only the variation is...Tags: France, Agriculture, Prices, Breads, Obesity
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