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1-800-GET-THIN centers criticized
Weight-loss surgeons from across the United States are attempting to distance themselves from surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising for Lap-Band surgery.
In a letter to House members considering a congressional investigation of...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Weight Loss Surgery, Health, John Dingell, Henry A Waxman
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FDA accuses 1-800-GET-THIN of using misleading Lap-Band ads
The Food and Drug Administration has accused the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing company of using misleading advertising in its promotion of Lap-Band weight-loss surgery, saying the billboard, radio and television ads underplay serious risks to patients.
The...Tags: David Geffen School of Medicine, Economy, Business and Finance, Health, Los Angeles Times, Radio
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Home, lean home: Designers, builders resolve to lose extra house flab
Have you resolved to go on a diet and shed pounds in the new year? Why not also put your home on a diet in 2012?
It makes sense, said Sharon Kreighbaum, author of the new book "Is Your House Overweight? Recipes for Low-Fat Rooms" and owner of Staged...Tags: Health, Overweight, Gold Coast, Weight, Masco Corporation
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Paula Deen's diabetes: Blaming the victim?
As Southern celebrity chef Paula Deen certainly knows by now, people with Type 2 diabetes are routinely blamed for causing their disease by eating junky food and making unhealthy lifestyle choices.
Known for high fat recipes that raise the risk for...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Disease, Human Body
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Multi-agency study to tackle Valley obesity problem
Imperial Valley Press Staff Writer, Copy EditorAs part of the multidimensional childhood obesity study, Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo will be given grant money to hire temporary volunteers to perform family intervention in the community, officials said. Community volunteers — promotoras —...Tags: Health, Health and Medical Professionals, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Disease Prevention, Health and Safety at School
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The best celebrity fitness profiles of 2011
In 2011, we interviewed 26 South Florida celebrities regarding their fitness regimens. Just in time for New Year's resolutions, we've selected some of their best answers to our questions.
Read what they're doing to keep their bodies healthy and looking...Tags: Health, Television, Apples, People (magazine), Radio
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Share your weight loss stories
In our three-part health series, 'Why we're fat', we explored the how and why to explain America's obesity epidemic. Now we want to hear from you. Which diets work for you? Which have not? Do you struggle with weight loss regardless of diet and exercise...Tags: Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Weight, Obesity
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Allergan halts Lap-Band sales to 1-800-GET-THIN clinics
The maker of the Lap-Band will no longer sell its product to clinics affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing company — a blow to Southern California surgery centers that have built an empire implanting the weight-loss devices in people...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Economy, Business and Finance, Health, Henry A Waxman, Los Angeles Times
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Why we're fat, Part 2: Heredity plays role in how easily we gain — and lose — weight
For the many Americans genetically programmed to add pounds, the effort to lose weight can seem doomed from the get-go. Mix in other factors no one can change — age, race, birth order — and the struggle becomes even tougher.
Though innate...Tags: Health, Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, National Institutes of Health, Science
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Why we're fat, Part 4: Outside forces affect what we eat, how much exercise we get
Beyond what we eat, what we're born with and what we do, our environment contributes in major — and mostly unnoticed — ways to our health and our weight.
All have conspired to make two-thirds of adult Americans and one-third of American...Tags: Health, Politics, Marketing, Federal Reserve, World War II (1939-1945)
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Why we're fat, Part 3: Our lifestyle promotes added pounds
Despite popular belief, a surge of laziness and gluttony is not what's making Americans fat, says science writer and fat researcher Gary Taubes, author of "Why We Get Fat."
In looking at the past 30 years, during which time obesity rates have soared,...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Health, Colleges and Universities, Human Body, Commuting
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