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Mayo Clinic:
Obesity --- good authoritative basic medical information. Click
here for their 'Childhood Obesity' page.
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Media and Childhood Obesity -- a short stat sheet from the FCC.
Includes a link to the 124 page White Task Force report on "Solving the
Problem of Childhood Obesity within a Generation"
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Obesity and African Americans --- from the US dept. of
Health & Human Services, Office of Minority Affairs.
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Obesity and Cancer: Questions and Answers
-- from the National Cancer Institute, a US
govt. agency.
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Obesity and Hispanic Americans --
from the US dept. of Health & Human
Services, Office of Minority Affairs.
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Obesity Data/Statistics
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Overweight and Obesity --
from the Centers for Disease Control, A US agency, includes statistics
and lots more. Click
here for
trends in different States.
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Prevalence
of Obesity among Adults -- statistics from the the United
Nations. You can filter by country and/or year. Good for comparing with
the United States figure. The Value column is the percentage of
population that is considered obese. Not every country has every year's
stats.
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Understanding Adult Obesity
--- from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases. "An in
depth look at this disorder and how it is measured, causes,
consequences, treatment, research and additional reading."
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Weight and Obesity ---
Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC)
is a leader in on-line global nutrition information. Located at the
National Agricultural Library (NAL)
of the USDA,
the FNIC
Web site contains over 2500 links to current and reliable nutrition
information.
