Sentences with phrase «health epidemic in»

Diabetics and those with pre-diabetes conditions (an exploding health epidemic in America), should immediately realize the benefit of a fast - acting energy source that doesn't produce an insulin spike in your body.

I don't like excuses for inaction when I'm fighting a health epidemic in my schools.

Childhood obesity is one of the most concerning health epidemics in our country today with serious implications for children and our health care system as a whole.

An expose of the food industry's 30 - year campaign to mislead the American public, resulting in one of the worst health epidemics in history.

Fed Up (Director: Stephanie Soechtig)-- Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30 - year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history.

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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» wide - ranging new crackdown on drug offenders could exacerbate one of America's most persistent public health tragedies: the heroin and opioid addiction epidemic that's been ravaging the country and killed nearly 35,000 Americans in 2015 alone.

American fast - food chains have also been wrestling with a wider range of health concerns at home, as many consumers are changing domestic eating habits in response to an ongoing obesity epidemic.

That level of death led President Donald Trump in October to declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency.

Whether Target and Home Depot in retail, eBay in e-commerce, Anthem in health insurance, JPMorgan in banking or even the Internal Revenue Service, no industry is safe from the hacking epidemic.

The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, was requested by the Brazilian health ministry to investigate the causes of the microcephaly epidemic that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an international public health emergency earlier thishealth ministry to investigate the causes of the microcephaly epidemic that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an international public health emergency earlier thisHealth Organization (WHO) declared an international public health emergency earlier thishealth emergency earlier this year.

But it also encompasses a host of other big initiatives, including more than $ 5 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and money to help the FDA; $ 1 billion for tackling the opioid epidemic; and provisions that are meant to help pair Americans who suffer from serious mental illnesses with available psychiatric beds.

«This is an important issue to study because mental health problems and social isolation are at epidemic levels among young adults,» lead author Brian Primack, M.D., Ph.D., director of Pitt's Center for Research on media, technology and health said in a statement.

The drug overdose epidemic has become one of the most concerning public health issues of recent time, and in an effort to stem the tide, moreg and more patients and doctors are turning to pot over pills.

But consider the history of the AIDS epidemic in this country, and how it was veiled in secrecy and shame for ten years before we faced it as a public - health problem.

There's been a high cost in terms of women's health, including an epidemic of infertility caused by sexually transmitted infections, and a startling rise in cervical and oral cancers among young women from the same cause.

The obsessive interest in the history of the body has been fuelled by the AIDS epidemic; it also reflects the concerns of a secular and hedonistic age, preoccupied with physical health and instinctual gratification.

And when I started looking into health statistics, I realized that there is a major health epidemic among Black women in this country that is hidden under the veneer of strength.

The Australian Beef industry is recognized as being free of all major epidemic diseases of cattle including Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and is one of the few in the world to be declared a «Negligible Risk» country of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) by the World Organization for Animal Health Industry.

In January 2013 the non-governmental organisation Sustain, supported by 61 health organisations, called for a 20 pence per litre excise duty on sugar sweetened drinks.4 In February, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges called for a 20 % tax on sugar sweetened drinks as part of its enquiry into clinical and public health solutions to the obesity epidemic.1 Although the UK government has indicated a preference for voluntary approaches to the control of obesity, it has not ruled out fiscal measures.14 Clearly, the idea of a sugar sweetened drink tax is gaining traction in the UK, but its effect on health remains uncertaiIn January 2013 the non-governmental organisation Sustain, supported by 61 health organisations, called for a 20 pence per litre excise duty on sugar sweetened drinks.4 In February, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges called for a 20 % tax on sugar sweetened drinks as part of its enquiry into clinical and public health solutions to the obesity epidemic.1 Although the UK government has indicated a preference for voluntary approaches to the control of obesity, it has not ruled out fiscal measures.14 Clearly, the idea of a sugar sweetened drink tax is gaining traction in the UK, but its effect on health remains uncertaiIn February, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges called for a 20 % tax on sugar sweetened drinks as part of its enquiry into clinical and public health solutions to the obesity epidemic.1 Although the UK government has indicated a preference for voluntary approaches to the control of obesity, it has not ruled out fiscal measures.14 Clearly, the idea of a sugar sweetened drink tax is gaining traction in the UK, but its effect on health remains uncertaiin the UK, but its effect on health remains uncertain.

The replacement of saturated fats in the diet with trans fats and sugar resulted in epidemic rates of obesity and its related health complications (2).

«Globesity» gets more critical every day — but people still crave the sweets, snacks and desserts they have loved for so long.How are companies responding to this public health epidemic, and is «self - regulation» in the form of smaller portions and low - sugar...

As the leading nonprofit health and fitness certification organization, our mission is to get people moving, because we believe physical activity can play a major role in preventing and reversing the epidemic of chronic, lifestyle - related diseases spreading the globe.

A few weeks ago, Washington state health officials declared that we've reached «epidemic» flu levels, and in King County the number of ER flu cases is the highest it's been in five years.

A new study by USC and University of Oxford researchers indicates that large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) found in national food supplies across the world may be one explanation for the rising global epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and resulting higher health care costs.

Every era has its health crisis, and as obesity rates in the U.S. population continue to soar to epidemic levels, sugar has become public enemy number one.

If there was a flu epidemic, and 60 percent of the country had the flu, it wouldn't make it normal... the problem is growing, and it's growing because there's a subtle war - in America, and in the world - between business and health.

While attending the Institute of Coaching's Fifth Annual Conference in Boston recently, along with 700 other health and leadership coaches, I had the opportunity to listen to public health guru Dr. David Katz spread his health message: that we, as a society, need to curb the obesity epidemic.

«Lead poisoning is one of those silent epidemics,» says Dr. Jeffrey Griffiths, professor of public health at Tufts University in Boston, who has advised the EPA on water quality for some time.

«It's just a reality check that in itself, promoting breastfeeding, while a good thing and will have other health benefits, is unlikely to have any effects on stemming the obesity epidemic,» said the study's lead author, Richard Martin, from the University of Bristol, UK.

John Hoffman, executive producer of «The Weight of the Nation,» which airs in May, said the purpose of the documentary is «sounding the loudest alarm that we can» to show that the obesity epidemic could cripple the United States» health care system.

The United States is in the midst of a public health epidemic due to poor diet.

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«It's just a reality check that in itself, promoting breastfeeding, while a good thing that will have other health benefits, is unlikely to have any effects on stemming the obesity epidemic,» said lead author Richard Martin, from the University of Bristol, UK.

The last forty years have shown a global epidemic rise in children suffering from poor health and chronic health conditions.

I think that medicalized birth practices resulting in inter-generational deprivation of our basic human rights has been a major contributor epidemics of diabetes and obesity and mental health problems.

Meanwhile, a growing body of scientific evidence links sugar with an epidemic of childhood obesity as well as a host of related health problems: diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and even an unprecedented outbreak of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children.

The question is whether the dairy claims are true, and whether enticing kids to eat foods laced with added sugar is a good thing in the midst of an obesity epidemic that threatens to cut short the lives of a generation of children and send the nation's health care bill through the roof.

Kathleen Kendall - Tackett, Ph.D., IBCLC Public health officials have been sounding the alarm about the «obesity epidemic,» not only in the U.S., but in industrialized nations around the world.

Rather than assign blame for the ADHD epidemic, we must look to a new paradigm of mental health that is founded in contemporary developmental science.

Our efforts range from a digital application that ensures human breast milk is safely pasteurized to community - developed videos on pressing health issues to supporting countries in tracking epidemics through data use for decision - making.

Cuomo fired back at Trump over criticism of New York's mental health care, and said that the commander - in - chief does not want to deal with the gun problem at the heart of the U.S.'s shooting epidemic.

«When President Trump and Governor Cuomo can both agree that the heroin and opioid epidemic has become a public health crisis and requires action, you know it truly is a pervasive issue,» Akshar said in a statement.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo fired back at President Trump over criticism of New York's mental health care, and said that the commander - in - chief does not want to deal with the gun problem at the heart of the U.S.'s shooting epidemic.

«Heroin has become a public health crisis in communities across the nation, but today New York State is taking a stand to turn the tide on this epidemic,» Governor Cuomo said.

He said assembly would adopt the «one health» approach in combating diseases and outbreak of epidemics in the region.

«Today, we launch an aggressive assault on a public health crisis that is reaching epidemic proportions: the scourge of dangerous new drugs that are killing people and sending thousands upon thousands to emergency rooms in New York City and around the country,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

Erie County, New York - In order to further combat the severity of the ongoing opioid epidemic, Legislator Patrick Burke is proposing a measure that would take an additional $ 1 million from the county fund balance, which currently stands at almost $ 90 million, and transfer it to the Erie County Department of Health.

Another way in which Erie County is protecting the public's health is in addressing the terrible opioid addiction epidemic facing our community.

Our Department of Health has been at the forefront in educating law enforcement and emergency responders, as well as private citizens, in the use of life saving Narcan and has been on the frontlines of the epidemic in other ways I will talk more about later.

In addition to the Sheriff's Office expanding its Narcotics Unit, the Department of Health has launched the Opioid Epidemic Task Force.