Tag: obesity

• Thursday, July 14th 2011 - 07:13 UTC

  Controversy in the US: severely obese children “should be placed in foster care”

  

  The government should have the right to remove severely obese children from their parents' home and place them in foster care, two US health experts argued in a controversial editorial published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

• Sunday, February 6th 2011 - 08:33 UTC

  One in three adults worldwide overweight and one in nine obese

  

  “Obesity rates have doubled worldwide since 1980,” according to a study published Friday as part of a series in the Lancet that also looked at global blood pressure and cholesterol trends.

• Friday, December 17th 2010 - 22:57 UTC

  NZ obesity epidemic impacts cemeteries: larger caskets and burial plots

  

  The obesity epidemic is forcing New Zealand funeral directors to introduce larger caskets and look for larger plots for burials. Big people are creating bigger problems for funeral directors and cemeteries.