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Apr 8, 2007
This research brief summarizes studies that found that individuals who are obese face greater challenges in terms of disability and chronic disease than do their non-obese counterparts.
Press
Apr 4, 2005
Weight loss surgery helps severely obese people lose more weight than dieting and exercise alone.
Research
Jan 1, 2005
Controversy exists regarding the effectiveness of surgery for weight loss and the resulting improvement in health-related outcomes.
Obesity could have serious consequences for older cohorts. The authors used a microsimulation to estimate lifetime costs, life expectancy, disease, and disability for seventy-year-olds based on body mass.
Mar 9, 2004
If obesity continues rising at its current rate in the United States, by 2020 about one in five health care dollars spent on people ages 50-69 could be consumed by obesity-related medical problems -- up about 50 percent from 2000, according to a RAND Corporation study.
Jan 1, 2004
Argues that new threats to national security represent fundamental changes in the ecology of conflict and that America's approach must evolve to meet the challenges; education, obesity, and wind tunnels in aeronautical research are also discussed.
