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Rising Obesity Rates in America: A Public Health CrisisNEW POSTS REGULARLY ADDED. click "READ MORE" IT OPENS EACH POST. CLICK "MORE POSTS" AT BOTTOM

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June 4, 2024 Rising Obesity Rates in America: A Public Health Crisis Share this post woman standing on a road with a towel around her neck, checking her watch If you practice medicine in the 21st century, you’re aware that obesity is common in the United States. Some have labeled it a public health crisis, partly due to its overlap and causal relationship with many other health issues. The issue is not limited to the U.S. The WHO has even identified what it calls “an escalating global epidemic of overweight and obesity.” While we agree we want to turn the tide on this trend, it’s helpful to understand the scale of the problem. First, there is no exact definition of a public health crisis. The Chicago Department of Public Health defines a public health emergency as, “any adverse event (natural or man-made) that compromises the health of the population and has the potential to cause widespread illness.” However, an emergency suggests immediate action is required, as in the case o

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WOMEN'S HEALTH AROUND THE WORLD

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WOMEN'S HEALTH AROUND THE WORLD A new UN report shows that women’s and children’s health has suffered globally, as the impacts of conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change converge with devastating effects on prospects for children, young people and women. Data presented in the report show a critical regression across virtually every major measure of childhood well-being, and many key indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since the last Every Woman Every Child Progress Report published in 2020, food insecurity, hunger, child marriage, risks from intimate partner violence, and adolescent depression and anxiety have all increased. An estimated 25 million children were un- or under-vaccinated in 2021 – 6 million more than in 2019 - increasing their risk of contracting deadly and debilitating diseases. Millions of children missed out on school during the pandemic, many for more than a year, while approximately 80% of children in 104 countries and ter

PRESIDENT TRUMP YUGE ADDICTION TO JUNK FOOD McDONAlDS

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I thought of a novel safer way for Our Orange Man to stay safe while rallying:- ZERO EXPOSURE. A STAY HOME SOJOUŔN . Then emote only via the web. He has a shortened future existence, due to his McDonald's junk food YUGE ADDICTION ANYWAY!......I will now post that on my pungent blog:>>> https://chalkon.com. or. https://ferk.in. or. https://mustsuesugar.com. All work to save our obese and. pre-diabetic world where critical thinking especially in survival mode neuronal pathways self-care, is way way way down. "Hey. Just wanna be happy. Where is me Coca Cola. Love only the Kamala Harris gal....such a gorgeous smile.eh? She must love me. I will vote for her. Trump NEVER! Were is me Coca Cola? I er er er ,zzzzzz, zzzzz, zzzzzzz"" SNOW FLAKED OUT!

A pandemic killer made by capitalism

A pandemic made by capitalism November 9, 2010 Joe Allen looks at a new book which challenges the conventional wisdom that fighting diabetes is about "personal responsibility" and "discipline." Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Email this story Click for more options SOON AFTER my mother turned 60 years old in 1997, I was talking to her on the phone when, toward the end of our conversation, she suddenly announced, "I have diabetes." Like many people who are confronted with the news that a close relative or friend is diagnosed with the dreaded illness, I was stunned, then confused. My mother was neither overweight nor sedentary--two of the things that I most identified with "adult onset" or Type 2 diabetes. She struggled during the next 10 years of her life with pricking her fingers to measure her blood sugar levels and the daily insulin shots, before she passed away. Since then, diabetes has never been very far from my min

The medical-industrial complex

The medical-industrial complex Back in the 1950s, Eisenhower warned about what he called the military industrial complex, whereby a powerful coalition of generals and chief executives conspired to talk up the threat from the Soviet Union, exaggerating the so-called ‘missile gap’ and seeing threats where none existed.26 The goal was not to protect the United States, but instead to transfer vast sums of money from the federal budget to the coffers of the corporations, and ultimately to those generals who would move seamlessly into their employment on retirement. This is a model that has since been widely emulated. There is the security industrial complex, whereby corporations and government officials, many also looking for a lucrative retirement home, have conspired to spend billions of euros and dollars on ineffective systems of airport security.27 This has resulted in countless people having their cosmetics, nail files and the like confiscated while the few people who actua