Teen Obesity

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Unfortunately, most kids’ activity decreases dramatically when they enter adolescence. Even with motivation, losing weight for most teenagers can be difficult. According to a Temple University public health study featured on the Huffington Post, this is because teenagers are not very …

Minority women may benefit from intensive, culturally sensitive interventions

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Around the world, especially in developed countries, women of color are often those with heaviest burden of obesity and diabetes. In a recent study of Arab women in Israel, an intensive intervention lowered their blood sugar, triglycerides, and chances of having …

Getting help from a group

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From Medscape: A community-based health intervention … helped adults at risk for diabetes lose significant amounts of weight and pull their belts in by a notch or 2… It tests a group-based rather than individual-oriented behavioral lifestyle-change strategy with the …