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...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc) announced in March that poor diet and lack of exercise resulted in 400,000 deaths in 2000 and were about to overtake smoking as the No. 1 preventable cause of death in the U.S. In November the cdc admitted that the real number was probably much lower--but that obesity is still the No. 2 cause of death...
...study published to great fanfare last March, the CDC announced that poor eating habits and inactivity were on track to become the No. 1 causes of preventable death in the U.S. by next year, surpassing even tobacco smoking. Well, someone at the agency miscalculated. The number of obesity-related deaths in 2000 was not 400,000, as the CDC reported, and may have been significantly lower. (Tobacco killed 435,000 people in 2000.) But even though the numbers may be off, the message stands: obesity is a major public-health threat in the U.S., and if it hasn...
...when, a few weeks before the election, one of the two companies that manufacture vaccine for the U.S. market was forced to withdraw 48 million doses, creating a massive shortage and triggering something of a flu-shot panic. Government officials scrambled to allocate fairly what was left, and the CDC says 58 million flu shots will be available to those who need them most. Advice for everyone else: wash your hands frequently; stay away from people who have the flu; and consider taking a prescription antiviral medicine like Tamiflu, Flumadine or Symmetrel, which can reduce your chances of getting sick...
...risk population before it's too late. Such large-scale mobilization may be the only way to get the problem back in check. "There's good evidence hypertension can be controlled," says Dr. Darwin Labarthe, acting chief of cardiovascular health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), "but it will take an intense, sustained effort...
...while many researchers concede that genes may play such a role, they believe cultural variables are far more important. "African Americans generally have lower economic well-being and the ability to make lifestyle changes and purchase medicines," says the CDC's Labarthe. Indeed, a 10-country, 85,000-person study revealed that, worldwide, it is whites who are as much as twice as likely to suffer from hypertension, with countries like Poland and Finland--where diets are high in fat and low in fruits and vegetables--leading the way. In a socioeconomic environment in which African Americans are often forced...