Depressing Statistics
Adult obesity rates are still rising… Still, compared with 2008, obesity rates rose in almost half the states, and decreased in none. In four states — Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia — more than 30 percent of adults are obese. Eight of the 10 states with the highest obesity rates are in the South, and Colorado is the only state with a rate under 20 percent. Seven of the 10 states with the highest poverty levels...
Study: Healthy Lifestyle Habits Associated With Reduced Disease Risk
Ok, you knew that already, but this German study has some fairly impressive numbers to back that up… To further describe the reduction in risk associated with these factors, Earl S. Ford, M.D., M.P.H., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and colleagues assessed data from 23,513 German adults age 35 to 65. At the beginning of the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition-Potsdam...
HealthNewsReview.Org
…looks like a pretty interesting site. Here’s the guy who runs it: Gary Schwitzer Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Journalism & Mass Communication, Health Journalism MA program Gary Schwitzer is the Publisher of HealthNewsReview.org. He specialized in health care journalism in his 30-year career in radio, television, interactive multimedia and the Internet. He joined the faculty of the School of...
Cancer Project Sues Hot Dog Manufacturers
Another lawsuit’s in the works: the Cancer Project – a vegan-oriented physician’s group concerned with dietary approaches to cancer prevention/survival – is suing the major hot dog manufacturers for fraud on behalf of three New Jersey consumers. WASHINGTON—Three New Jersey residents are suing Nathan’s Famous, Kraft Foods/Oscar Mayer, Sara Lee, Con Agra Foods, and Marathon Enterprises for failing to warn...
Denny’s Sued Over Sodium Content of Meals
It’s a class action lawsuit, supported by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Most meals at Denny’s restaurants meals are dangerously high in salt, putting the chain’s customers at greater risk of high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke, alleges a class action lawsuit filed Thursday by a New Jersey man with the support of the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, CSPI. …The...
Real Men Eat Crap
Introducing the new “Wheaties Fuel”… Testosterone swirls around every aspect of Wheaties Fuel’s introduction. General Mills — maker of the most popular brand, Cheerios, and the second-largest cereal manufacturer, behind Kellogg’s — used a panel of only male athletes, including the Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning and the Boston Celtics power forward Kevin Garnett, to consult on both the nutritional...
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