More US kids 'extremely obese': study
Ninemsn
With the results showing a rate of extreme obesity of around 12 per cent in some groups, notably black teen girls and Hispanic teen boys, the authors warned ...

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More Kids Now Extremely Obese
U.S. News & World Report
Obesity peaked at age 10 for boys and age 12 for girls. The most extremely obese were black teenage girls and Hispanic boys. The least extremely obese were ...
More children are extremely obeseLos Angeles Times (blog)
Extreme Obesity Affecting More Children at Younger AgesPR Newswire (press release)
Kids Not Only Obese, They're Extremely ObeseWebMD
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US child obesity problem worse than thought
Reuters
They found the heaviest children were black teenage girls and Hispanic teenage boys. Asian-Pacific Islanders and white children had the lowest percentage of ...
More children are extremely obeseLos Angeles Times (blog)
Extreme Obesity Affecting More Children at Younger AgesPR Newswire (press release)
Extreme Obesity is Prevalent in Children and AdolescentsMedscape
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More Kids Now Extremely Obese
Palm Beach Post
Obesity peaked at age 10 for boys and age 12 for girls. The most extremely obese were black teenage girls and Hispanic boys. The least extremely obese were ...

Extreme obesity affecting more children at younger ages
PhysOrg.com
Extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3 percent of ...

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More children are extremely obese
Los Angeles Times (blog)
The survey found that 12% of black teenage girls and 11.2% of Hispanic teenage boys had extreme obesity. The authors of the study, from Kaiser Permanente, ...
More Kids Now Extremely ObeseBusinessWeek
Study: Extreme obesity affecting more minority children at younger agesRedlands Daily Facts
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New Studies Show Huge Health Disparities Among Asian American, Native Hawaiian ...
U.S. Asian Wire (press release)
Obesity is as another health risk facing Native Hawaiians. Compared to whites in the state, Native Hawaiians are twice as likely to be obese (44.1 percent ...

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'Hearts and Minds' Promotes Wellness; African Americans Living with Mental ...
PR Newswire (press release)
In 2006, African American men were 30% more likely to die from heart disease, as compared to non-Hispanic white men. African American women are 1.7 times as ...

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Kimberly Garrison: Is Sidibe OK at her weight, or obesity's poster girl?
Philadelphia Inquirer
According to the Centers for Disease Control, African-Americans have 2.3 times the infant mortality rate of non-Hispanic whites. Whether we like it or not, ...

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Is Sidibe OK at her weight,or obesity's poster girl?
Philadelphia Inquirer
According to the Centers for Disease Control, African-Americans have 2.3 times the infant mortality rate of non-Hispanic whites. Whether we like it or not, ...

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Risky Business: Pregnant in America
RH Reality Check (blog)
... Native American and Hispanic women's maternal mortality rates include "ensuring equitable access to health care without discrimination" by, ...

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Michelle Obama's Childhood Obesity Campaign Inspiring Parents To Take Action
Seattle Medium
Hispanic children, however, had an 18.5 percent rate of childhood obesity. Charletta Bohler, a 21-year-old DC resident, said her generation is ...

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Study Offers Compelling Evidence for a National School Health Effort
PR Newswire (press release)
Non-Hispanic black teens have pregnancy rates three times as high as whites, and rates for Hispanic teens are four times as high as for whites. ...

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Sweet drink tax gets Schwarz his booing baptism | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03 ...
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
Schwarz grew up in the 1960s and 1970s in Dover, NJ, a then-rural Morris County town with a large Hispanic population. It was a good place to learn how to ...

Research on Childhood Obesity Highlights Need for Prevention
Civilrights.org
In addition, statistics from the US Department of Health and Human Services found that 29 percent of Black teenagers and 17.5 percent of Hispanic teenagers ...

Study: 60% of US Adults are Drinkers
CBS News
Separated by race, Hispanic adults were most likely to be overweight or obese (67.5 percent). • Around six in 10 adults report they usually get between ...

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Workshop Spurs Call for Collaborations
USC News
“We're very competitive,” he told presenters, listing health education efforts related to diabetes, obesity and cancer as having especially high priority at ...
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A Growing Problem
Demo Dirt (subscription)
In two separate studies published in the journal Pediatrics, experts found that in addition to greater obesity rates in Hispanic and black children, health ...

Interventional Radiologists Examine Simple Test That Might Predict Heart Attacks
PR Newswire (press release)
Researchers reviewed the results from the PEDAL study, a population-based, cross-sectional study of 822 participants (women, 69.7 percent; non-Hispanic ...

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Parenting Grows Up
Publishers Weekly
... Spanish-language translation, Qué Puedes Esperar Cuando Estás Esperando, aimed at the increasing number of Hispanic-American and Latina expectant moms. ...

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