Improved Recovery In Patients Who Exercised Prior To Stroke

By Carmen | 18 July 2009
Posted in Weight loss News

A person who has exercised regularly prior to the onset of a stroke appears to recover more quickly, say researchers from Mayo Clinic in Florida, who led a national study.

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New Obesity Data Shows Blacks Have The Highest Rates Of Obesity

By Carmen | 17 July 2009
Posted in Weight loss News

Blacks had 51 percent higher prevalence of obesity, and Hispanics had 21 percent higher obesity prevalence compared with whites, according to researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Greater prevalences of obesity for blacks and whites were found in the South and Midwest than in the West and Northeast. Hispanics in the Northeast had lower obesity prevalence than Hispanics in the Midwest, South or West.

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Therapy Targets Emotional Eating

By Clive | 17 July 2009
Posted in Weight loss News

According to the latest thinking, eating healthily and taking more exercise are not enough by themselves to combat the nation's rising obesity levels. Instead we need a better understanding of the issues underpinning compulsive eating so that psychological help can be successfully targeted.

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