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| Several Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Mississippi proposed a new legislature (House Bill 282) to ban fat people completely from eating out by prohibiting restaurants to serve them. According to this proposal, anyone with a body mass index above a government-set limit would be denied meals. However, the proposal did not specify the obesity limit or the penalties for serving fat customers.Sounds great! I would extend this law to all the store as well. You do not get food, up to the moment your body weight to get into the government-set limit. Drinking water might be permitted.It is a pity, this
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| Soda pop is what nutritionists call a villain in American obesity. According to government data soda pop contributes about 10 % of the calories int he American diet. In fact, sweetened drinks are the only specific food that clinical research has directly linked to weight gain according to Dr. David Ludwig, a Harvard endocrinologist. "Highly concentrated starches and sugars promote overeating, and the granddaddy of them all is sugar-sweetened beverages," said Ludwig, who runs the Optimal Weight for Life Program at Children's Hospital in Boston. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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| A report published Monday in The New England Journal of Medicine warns that the nation's obesity epidemic has reached a new level of crisis, with many overweight Americans' increased girth rendering them physically unable to end their own, fat lives. We've known for some time that obesity can cause heart disease, diabetes, strokes, and other potentially life-threatening illnesses," said report author Dr. Marjorie Reese, director of UCLA's Obesity Pathology Clinic. "But the fact that obesity impedes suicide is truly troubling. It appears that the more reason people have to die, the
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| British Imperial college employees have received a £ 2.3 million grant from the Wellcome Trust company..for creation of a new obesity preventive. Medicine, that restraines appetite, will be issued in a chewing gum, drops, or plaster form, informes The Sun newspaper. Medicine like this, already exists, but is affecting only during 24 hours. That's why the scientists want to create a medicine for a long time affect. A new medication will be issued as injections, it will allow to reduce the risk of deseases, that appear because of obesity, and will be ready in 5-8 years.
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