Also Try Body Mass Index (BMI) News -03-06-07 Snoring May Indicate a Serious Problem (ABC News) "Snoring is the stuff of sitcoms, sketch comedy and late nights tossing and turning between the sheets." "But it can also be a symptom of sleep apnea, a serious illness in which a person stops breathing while sleeping, sometimes hundreds of times a night." 03-07 -11-16-05 Bulge Battles for Black Americans (CBS News) "The black waistline is bulging. The result: heart disease kills blacks at a rate 30 percent higher rate than whites. Diabetes is twice as prevalent and four out of every 10 blacks have high blood pressure, CBS News correspondent Mika Brzezinksi reports." 11-05 -11-16-05 Ground Zero for Obesity (CBS News) "These are just some of the diseases and conditions associated with obesity:" - Hypertension - Type 2 diabetes - Coronary heart disease - Stroke - Gallbladder disease - Osteoarthritis - Sleep apnea and respiratory problems - Even some cancers (endometrial, breast and colon) "We start out tonight on the CBS Evening News at TA Travel Center (alright, it's a truck stop) in Baytown, Texas, a suburb of Houston, which Men's Fitness rates as America's fattest city." 11-05 04-24-03 Obesity Linked to Cancer (USAToday.com - Hellmich) "Excess body weight may contribute to about 20% of all cancer deaths in women and 14% of all cancer deaths in men. This translates to about 90,000 cancer deaths a year in the USA, according to a landmark study on the link between obesity and cancer." "About 65% of Americans are overweight or obese. Obesity is defined as 30 or more pounds over a healthy weight; overweight is 10 to 30 pounds over a healthy weight." 4-03 Papers -04-06-05 Study: Obesity Costs Over $21 Billion in California (CNN News) "California, the land of body worshippers and vegetarians, is getting alarmingly fat, with more than half of all adults overweight, according to a study released Tuesday." 4-05 America Getting Fatter (USNews.com - Spake) Describes results of studies that show that obesity, especially of children and teens, has greatly increased in the past two decades. 8-02 Most People Older Than 25 Are Overweight (CNN.com - ) "Poll results show that 80 percent of people older than 25 are overweight based on the body mass index (BMI), a national guideline computed through a combination of weight and height." 3-02 Obesity Is Now the Top Preventable Health Problem (Rand - Cook) Provides results from a study that shows that more people are now have health problems as a result of excess fat than from smoking, drinking, or conditions related to poverty. 6-01 Obesity Reduces Lifespan (HealthandAge.org) "Mortality rates were compared for each set of BMI scores in the nonsmoker, healthy group. This group of subjects showed quite clearly the risks of being overweight. The lowest death rates for men were at BMI scores of 23.5 to 25, and for women at scores of 22 to 23.5." 12-03

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