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As a longtime health journalist, I was invited to go to the CDC’s conference on obesity prevention and control, The Weight of the Nation, this week in DC. I couldn’t make it, but will, of course, bring you some of the highlights.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just launched LEANWorks! – a website designed to help businesses fight obesity. LEAN stands for Leading Employees to Activity and Nutrition.
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Out of the 501 people who have gotten sick during the salmonella/peanut butter outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says half of them are children – 280 victims are under 18 years old, including some infants.
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.A salmonella outbreak has now made 410 people in 43 states sick. It may also be linked to the deaths of three people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says peanut butter is the “likely source” of the nationwide infection.
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Congrats to Burlington, Vermont – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just named it the healthiest city in America. The CDC says Burlington is among the best in exercise and among the lowest in obesity, diabetes and several other diseases.
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Diabetes is skyrocketing in the United States. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the rate of new cases of diabetes has nearly doubled over the past 10 years. The main reasons? The growing number of obesity and sedentary lifestyles.
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Jalapenos are not the only peppers definitely linked to the massive salmonella outbreak. The Food and Drug Administration has found contaminated serrano peppers and irrigation water on a farm in Mexico.
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It’s okay to eat any type of raw tomato again. After months of concern that tomatoes were linked to the salmonella outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lifts its alert because the farms that may have shipped tomatoes at the beginning of the outbreak are no longer harvesting them.
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The obesity epidemic is getting worse. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows about 25.6 percent of adults in the U.S. are obese – up nearly two-percent from 2005.
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Jalapeno peppers could be partly to blame for the salmonella outbreak that has made 1,017 people sick. It is the worst foodborne outbreak in at least a decade.
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