Obesity Facts and Information

Obese Get Higher Doses of Radiation for X-Rays

TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) — People who are overweight and obese are usually given higher-than-normal doses of radiation in order to obtain usable X-ray images, even though the long-term effects are unknown, new research contends. “You need to get a certain amount of X-rays to go through the body in order to get an informative [...]

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Obesity becoming US civil rights issue for some

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Kate Harding has spent most of her life on one diet or another, losing weight but always gaining it back. Determined to improve her quality of life, she joined a fast-growing group of anti-dieting activists promoting overweight people’s civil rights. Launching an anti-dieting blog called Shapely Prose, Harding and other fat-acceptance advocates [...]

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