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According to a report from ScienceDaily, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is encouraging scientific investigations to combat the obesity epidemic through a new strategic plan for obesity research. With more than one out of three adults and nearly 17 percent of children in the United States now obese, our nation faces escalating health concerns […]

Today HealthDay published an article summarizing two studies that show that physicians play a big role in a patient’s perception of their weight, and their decision to try to lose weight. Both studies were published in the February 28th edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine. A key statistic the article sites is that patients […]