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How to use the word obesity in a Sentence? Page #8

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Experts believe that when students are given an adequate amount of time for lunch, they will be more likely to try healthy options and make healthy food choices which down the road may lower the risk for obesity and other chronic diseases.

Samantha Heller

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Poverty is associated with poor diet and less opportunity for physical activity which increases the risk for obesity and in turn for osteoarthritis.

Gillian Hawker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For other children, jaw alignment may contribute and dental treatment is being developed to address this, other health factors such as obesity can also contribute to sleep-disordered breathing, another reason for developing effective approaches to address this complex health issue.

Barbara Galland

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Minorities and the working poor in Canada benefit from a better network of social support, obesity has everything to do with economic inequalities and economic insecurity.

Adam Drewnowski

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Obesity has everything to do with economic inequalities and economic insecurity.

Adam Drewnowski

Found on CNN
8 years ago

More Americans have joined the dots between ice cream, high sugar content and their expanding waistlines – thanks in no small way to a barrage of negative press and the visible evidence in the obesity epidemic. For many Americans – especially younger generations - ice cream is just not worth the extra pounds of weight.

Alex Beckett

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Several factors could explain the positive association between time spent sitting and higher all-cause death rates, prolonged time spent sitting, independent of physical activity, has been shown to have important metabolic consequences, and may influence things like triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein, cholesterol, fasting plasma glucose, resting blood pressure and leptin, which are biomarkers of obesity and cardiovascular and other chronic diseases.

Alpa Patel

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The fact that the United States has one of the highest child obesity rates in the world frustrates me, we need to do more to educate ourselves and our children about the dangers of overeating and the poison that we put into our bodies.

Mayra Solis

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We have been pushing ... that obesity is a medical problem and not a personal problem.

Angela Fitch

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is soaring obesity.

Jeremy Nicholson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Obesity predisposes you to disease.

Jeremy Nicholson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Moreover, children who suffer from weight health issues are significantly more likely to suffer from obesity in adulthood.

Dominique Ruggieri

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Obesity is a strong risk factor for incontinence, improvement in incontinence is one of many benefits of bariatric surgery.

Leslee Subak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Surgery is a last resort, penile implants are much more invasive and have a higher rate of complication, especially for patients with underlying conditions like obesity and high blood pressure.

Tom Lue

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We can't change our genes and we can't change our birthday but we can modify some factors, including blood pressure, cholesterol, body weight (obesity), alcohol intake, and those are primary factors that people can change themselves.

David Geldmacher

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If patients lose weight, they will feel better in general and they will have less risk of hypertension and diabetes and less atrial fibrillation, some effects of obesity, like inflammation, might not be completely reversible, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get people to lose weight.

Oussama Wazni

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Obesity increases the risk of any surgery.

Oussama Wazni

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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Clinton Foundation spokesman Craig Minassian

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The fact that the prevalence of obesity continues to increase for the poorest children and that that’s not true for wealthier children is a real problem.

Cockrell Skinner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A lot of times, you’ll ask the executives, ‘What’s the largest [employee wellness] priority?’ and they’ll say, ‘Boy, obesity is our biggest problem.’ But if you survey the employees, almost 100 percent of the time, they’ll say, ‘We’re too stressed,’.

Tom Gubanc

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Prevention of obesity is important since there is convincing evidence that obesity contributes to risk of diabetes and elevated blood pressure.

Steven Kittner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If we had effective, safe treatments for obesity that were well accepted by patients and broadly available, then treating obesity rather than its consequences makes the most sense.

Walter Kernan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is yet another reason to dedicate resources to reversing the obesity epidemic among children and young adults.

Steven Kittner

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We know diabetes and obesity can lead to liver disease, cirrhosis and liver cancer and when you put that all together this may be helping increase their cancer rates.

Ken Dominguez

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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