But a new study shows that India's leading causes of death now also include obesity-related diseases such as heart disease.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Earlier findings showed that happiness, obesity and the ability to stop smoking can also spread like infections within social groups.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

To others,they are enemies of the public health in a time of what the World Health Organization calls a "global obesity epidemic."

VOA: special.2010.04.12

He found that those who came after Title Nine had a seven percent lower risk of obesity twenty to twenty-five years later.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

The study found that losses from obesity are now equal to, if not greater than, those from smoking.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

It says obesity is responsible for an increasing part of health care costs in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

He compared obesity rates and physical activity levels of women who had been in high school before and after Title Nine took effect.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

This week on our program, we tell about a new White House program to fight childhood obesity.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

She said these will help fight childhood obesity "one child,one family and one community at a time."

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Another American study says obesity has become as great a threat to quality of life as smoking.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

A new report says adult obesity rates rose last year in twenty-three of the fifty states.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

And a lack of physical activity among many Pacific islanders only adds to the obesity problem.

VOA: special.2010.08.23

Last month,the members of the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity presented its action plan.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

The World Health Organization defines obesity as a body mass index of thirty or more.

VOA: special.2011.02.15