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Diet & Weight Loss Diet & Weight Loss : The facts about obesity in American children The facts about obesity in American children

by Kimberly Dawn Wells

Most Americans and parents will agree that child obesity rates are on the rise, but does anyone really understand the facts behind this new national epidemic?

FACT: pediatric obesity rates have tripled.
While adults obesity rates have doubled over the past 25 years, obesity rates in children have over tripled. The Centers for Disease Control report that rates for the age range of 2-5 years has gone

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Weight Issues Should we blame genetics for the obesity epidemic?

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Yes

by Jane Allyson

Scientists in Aberdeen have found that people with a variant of the FTO gene (which was linked to obesity

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No

by Perry McCarney

Blame is a highly emotive term, is it appropriate in the defining question of this debate? Does a person's

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Diet Tips Sizzling tips for a summer diet

by Michelle L Devon

Lose Weight and Get Thinner for Summer, Fast but Healthy

Summer months are coming up, and that means swimsuits, beaches, pool parties,

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Weight Issues Is it abuse to overfeed children?

by Emily Monaco

Is it abuse to overfeed a child? In a word, yes. Abuse is defined as behavior that will in some way handicap a child, and while overfeeding

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Weight Issues Reasons why it is difficult to lose weight

by Jenna Pope

Today's American Society is supersized. We think nothing of sitting at a desk all morning long, and then driving through McDonald's

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Diet Programs Determining the safety of the Atkins diet

by John P Cummings

The Atkins diet is one of the most enduring and widespread diet fads that has swept the nation. Unlike many others though, it has

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