Strategy to tackle obesity still evading health services
...s suggest that more collaboration between nursing, dietetic and physical-activity experts is needed to develop novel ways to tackle obesity. Dr Haslam states: "The medical profession is only now waking up to the political and industrial challenges as well as the medical challengeOur new scientific understand......rently fall short of this benchmark. Professional dietetic associations in the US, Australia, and Europe, emphasize eating healthy foods and being physically active." (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper)...'Food insecure' Appalachians more likely to be obese, diabetic, study finds
...with greater levels of what medical, nutrition and dietetic professionals call "food insecurity" had a greater body mass index (BMI) than those with smaller levels of food insecurity (an average BMI of 30.3 vs. average BMI of 29). Those from food insecure households also were more likely to have diabetes (37.......orwin; Amy E. Griel, recent doctoral recipient and dietetic intern, Penn State dietetic internship; Penny M. Kris-Etherton, distinguished professor of nutrition at Penn Stsate; Kirsten Hil...