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Scandinavian Journal of Pain
More than one-third of Americans are considered obese or overweight. The diet and weight loss industry is at an all-time high. Gluten-free, paleo and vegan are now household terms. So why, in a country rich with health information, weight loss fixes and diet trends, are we still overweight, hungry, and in many ways, malnourished?It’s because…
The researchers had found evidence of this link in two previous studies, said coauthor Laura Schieve, an epidemiologist with CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. Schieve and her co-authors studied data on 1,311 mother-child pairs collected between 2005 and 2012, including the mothers’ body mass index (BMI, a height-to-weight ratio) before pregnancy and their reports of the children’s psychosocial difficulties at age six.
By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) – The 91-year-old founder of weight loss company Weight Watchers International Inc., Jean Nidetch, died of natural causes early on Wednesday, a company spokeswoman said. “The first official Weight Watchers meeting was actually over a movie theater in Queens,” former CEO David Kirchoff told CNN in a 2013 interview. Singer Jennifer Hudson and former professional basketball player Charles Barkley were among the millions of members who shed pounds through the program. Weight Watchers was purchased by H.J. Heinz Company in 1978.
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