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October 21, 2009 FDA plans revision to nutrition label. FDA seeks to improve nutrition labeling on food products – washingtonpost.com October 20, 2009 Women with obesity at risk for in vitro...
View ArticleEconomics Overview
Economic research on obesity has increased sharply over the last ten years or so as the epidemic has increased. An excellent place to start is the National Business Group on Health paper on obesity...
View ArticleStealth Provision Expands Obesity Coverage for Millions
On July 19, 2010, The Department of Health and Human Services issued ‘interim final regulations’ requiring insurers in the group and individual markets to include preventive services without any...
View ArticleIntensive Counseling, State Data and Incentives- What’s new
September 29, 2010 Look AHEAD, an NIH funded long term study of life style intervention on weight and cardiovascular risk factors has released its 4 year findings. One arm of the study received...
View ArticleThe Causes of Obesity: There’s more than you think
September 30, 2010 Perhaps the greatest gap between science and policy-making is the understanding of the causes of obesity. For most of the public and policy-makers, it is beyond discussion that...
View ArticleHEALTH CARE REFORM
January 21, 2011 As part of health care reform legislation, the Department of Health and Human Services was tasked with reporting to Congress on the status of obesity prevention efforts in Medicaid...
View ArticleAHRQ Looking at Comparative Effectiveness for Prevention Wt. Gain in Adults
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is undertaking a comparative effectiveness review of approaches to weight maintenance in adults. Information is available at Approaches to Weight...
View ArticleWeight of the Nation: Childhood Obesity – Is Anything Working?
The Surgeon’s General ground-breaking Call to Action on overweight and obesity came out in 2001. Surgeon General: Call to Action: Obesity Since then, millions of dollars have been spent by governmental...
View ArticleDems Platform makes brief reference to obesity
Democrats in Charlotte, NC today will adopt their party’s platform today. For all of Michelle Obama’s work, the President’s Task Force at the outset of his Administration and the recent Department of...
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