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Obesity Consequences
The High Cost of Excess Weight Apart from tobacco, there is perhaps no greater harm to the collective health in the U.S. than obesity. Worldwide, too, obesity's health effects are deep and vast-and they have a real and…
Obesity Causes
Many factors influence body weight-genes, though the effect is small, and heredity is not destiny; prenatal and early life influences; poor diets; too much television watching; too little physical activity and sleep; and our food and physical activity…
Obesity Definition
What Does It Actually Mean to Be Overweight or Obese? At their most basic, the words "overweight" and "obesity" are ways to describe having too much body fat. The most commonly used measure of weight status today is…
Diets of low-income adults in federal food program SNAP need improvement
October 9, 2012 -- Researchers offer policy recommendations to better address dual challenges of food insecurity and obesity in low-income Americans More than 44.7 million Americans — roughly one in seven — receive benefits to purchase food from the…
Sugary drinks may magnify the genetic risk of obesity
Article in USA Today featuring HSPH's Frank Hu, September 21, 2012
Sugary drinks linked to obesity
Coverage on NBC Nightly News featuring HSPH's Eric Rimm, September 21, 2012
Regular consumption of sugary beverages linked to increased genetic risk of obesity
For immediate release: Friday, September 21, 2012 Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health have found that greater consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is linked with a greater genetic susceptibility to high body mass index (BMI) and increased…
U.S. study links the chemical BPA to obesity in children
Coverage in Reuters featuring HSPH's Karin Michels, September 18, 2012
Replacing juice with water, fruits, and vegetables in afterschool programs cuts calories
September 17, 2012 -- One in three U.S. children are overweight or obese, and growing evidence points to the empty calories they consume from sugary beverages as a substantial part of the problem. A new study by Harvard…
Why we're so fat: what's behind the latest obesity rates
Coverage in U.S. News & World Report, August 16, 2012, featuring HSPH's Walter Willett