Over a recent (healthy) lunch, my friend Caitlin, a graduate of DMU’s master of public health program, and I had a lively discussion of possible topics for this blog and for DMU Magazine. Ideas ranged from the positive impact of […]
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When the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates met in Chicago mid-June, members approved a measure to label obesity a disease. Pointing to “an overabundance of clinical evidence to identify obesity as a multi-metabolic and hormonal disease state,” the policymaking
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I don’t believe you can legislate intelligence or wise decision-making. That’s why I have mixed feelings about efforts to outlaw bad-for-us foods, such as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s call to ban all sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces
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Americans are continuing to supersize, reports Kaiser Health News blog. According to a report titled “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America‘s Future 2011” by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the adult obesity