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'Healthy' individuals may be at risk for heart disease

Published September 7, 2008, 9:25 pm, EurekAlert!

In the face of a growing obesity epidemic in the United States, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have new study results that indicate that how much fat a person has is not as important as where that fat is located when assessing risk for cardiovascular events and metabolic disease.

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Doctors: Fat kids at risk for liver disease

Published September 7, 2008, 9:15 pm, Boston Herald

TRENTON, N.J. - In a disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat, and a handful have needed liver...

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Arguing both sides of obesity, image debate

Published September 7, 2008, 9:12 pm, The Post and Courier

We all have character flaws. The unfortunate distinction for fat people is that their flaw is not concealable. I've worked in offices or socialized among people who were physically abusive to family members, or had maxed-out their credit cards because they couldn't stop shopping, or had severe TV addictions, or harbored unacceptable prejudices, or who battled alcoholism. It took me months or ...

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Chinese take to exercise in leisure time

Published September 7, 2008, 9:04 pm, Winston-Salem Journal

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State Money Could Benefit Area Park

Published September 7, 2008, 8:37 pm, The Charleston State Journal

Project underway to upgrade playground and make it safer.

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Regulator denies junk food ads make kids fat

Published September 7, 2008, 8:23 pm, EARTHtimes.org

Sydney - Hardly a week goes by without a social welfare group appealing to the Australian government to ban junk food advertising on children's television. The argument is the same the world over: the obesity epidemic is partly caused by children pes...

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AP IMPACT: Liver disease plagues obese adolescents

Published September 7, 2008, 8:18 pm, KRIS-TV Corpus Christi

TRENTON, N.J. -- In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat, and a handful have needed liver...

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Overweight teens plagued by liver disease

Published September 7, 2008, 8:16 pm, KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul

In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat

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AP IMPACT: Liver disease plagues obese adolescents

Published September 7, 2008, 8:02 pm, AP via Yahoo! News

In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat, and a handful have needed liver transplants.

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Simple hardness test detects fake medicines

Published September 7, 2008, 6:54 pm, News-Medical-Net

The fight against fake medicines could soon be aided by a small, portable device that quickly measures the hardness of a tablet, revealing whether it is counterfeit, according to research presented at the British Pharmaceutical Conference (BPC) in Manchester.

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