Fish Oil

The mission of the National Office of Public Health Genomics is to integrate advances in human genetics into public health research, policy, and programs (more...)

Overweight and Obesity, Trends, Contributing Factors, Health Consequences, Economic Consequences, State-Based Programs, Recommendations (more...)

The South tips the scales again as the nation's fattest region, according to a new government survey. (more...)

The South tips the scales again as the nation's fattest region, according to a new government survey. (more...)

America's obesity boom may be leveling off -- but that plateau is still far higher than quarter of a century ago and twice as high as the CDC wants it to be. (more...)

Forty-five U.S. states lost ground in an ongoing push to reduce obesity to 15 percent of the population by 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (more...)

EPIDEMIC - a word typically used for outbreaks of infectious disease is now being used by medical professionals to describe the prevalence and rapid rise of obesity in the United ... (more...)

Overweight and Obesity, Trends, Contributing Factors, Health Consequences, Economic Consequences, State-Based Programs, Recommendations (more...)

CDC: Obesity Deaths Overstated "A widely quoted federal study that concluded obesity is poised to overtake tobacco as the leading cause of preventable death inflated the impact of ... (more...)

Coalition for Active Children Obesity Trends in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, is one of the 13 ... (more...)