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Disappearing brackets, one too many zeroes, or a misplaced decimal point: Few are immune to making the occasional careless math mistake. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently admitted to their own arithmetic gaffe. Rather than 400,000 Americans meeting their death at the hands of obesity, the figure is actually far lower, with many experts placing it at approximately a quarter of the previously-estimated number...
...number on the scale, it is just as valuable to emphasize the health benefits of maintaining a healthy weight. This shift from disapproval to encouragement would help blunt the stigma of obesity and reshape the distorted lens through which the general public often views fat and food in general. CDC will soon release the true rate of mortality, but no matter its order of magnitude, we must remember that a healthy lifestyle begins with a healthy attitude. It isn’t just about measuring up to the Food Guide Pyramid, or bypassing the elevator for the stairs. It?...
According to the latest figures from the CDC, 7,315 American girls ages 10 to 14 had babies in 2002. Believe it or not, that's good news because it's the lowest level since 1946, down from a peak of 12,901 in 1994. Teen births are down for all ages, but the drop is largest for the youngest and most vulnerable parents, and the numbers fell most sharply among blacks, the group at highest risk. Among the issues raised when kids have kids are grave medical consequences. Such births are linked to serious health risks for the mothers...
...ordered more doses of the vaccine than it needed to use to dispense to high risk patients under guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), UHS director David S. Rosenthal ’59 said...
...knew that we had to comply with the guidelines of the CDC,” Rosenthal said...