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Your Healt Your Life - Enjoy Your Healthy Life
Draft plan for a statewide campaign for better health gets endorsement, much talk at Friedell Committee annual meeting
Kentucky, in Diabetes Belt, needs to do more to keep percentage of residents with costly disease from rising, advocates say
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county health,
diabetes,
exercise,
nutrition,
obesity,
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1 in 3 don't get potentially life-saving screening for colon cancer, second leading cause of cancer death in Ky. and U.S.
Federal officials said Tuesday that although detecting colon cancer early saves lives, only about two-thirds of Americans aged 50 to 75 have...
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cancer,
cancer screening,
colorectal cancer,
doctors,
elderly,
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obesity,
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Mayo Clinic experts offer advice on preventing and coping with osteoarthritis, especially in the knees
Experts from the Mayo Clinic offer tips for both those trying to prevent and those suffering from a painful condition that affects at least ...
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arthritis,
exercise,
obesity,
physical activity
Kentucky has nation's first statewide, comprehensive plan for diabetes prevention; 10 percent of us have the disease
Kentucky leads the way in the fight against diabetes and towards improving health for future generations of Kentuckians by becoming the firs...
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Kids' excessive salty snacks are linked to obesity, high blood pressure; new limits on school vending items may help
As new research shows that America's child-obesity epidemic is linked to eating too many salty snacks, new federal regulations could en...
Owsley men most likely in U.S. to be obese, Perry women most likely to die; Morgan women led nation in increasing exercise
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hypertension,
obesity,
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Parents should walk the walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to healthy eating and exercise, study shows
AMA calls obesity a disease; could spur coverage for treatment
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diabetes,
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Mayors and AMA say food stamps shouldn't pay for soft drinks
Louisville's Greg Fischer is among 18 mayors asking Congress to ban sugary drinks from purchase under the Supplemental Nutrition Assista...
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diabetes,
federal spending,
food stamps,
nutrition,
obesity,
soda,
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USDA
Floyd County newspaper editor calls on readers to make lifestyle changes to address area's diabetes health crisis
Medicaid expansion would have 'a big health impact,' and critical-access hospitals need to change, rural-health expert says
Trip to South Korea: Hidden reasons for the leanness of its people
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obesity,
resistant starch,
rice,
South Korea
State Health Department gets diabetes prevention funding; will focus on prediabetes detection and lifestyle changes
The state Department for Public Health has been awarded a $134,380 federal grant to help reduce high rates of prediabetes and Type 2 diabe...
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Drs. Francisco Cervantes and Marivic Torregosa, and the 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium
The 2013 PLoS ONE sugar and diabetes study: Sugar from fruits is harmless
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refined carbs,
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Common beliefs about obesity and weight loss found to be myths
Think going to gym class drives weight loss, or that breastfeeding protects a child from obesity? Think again, because these are among seven...
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Childhood obesity is linked to more immediate health problems than doctors formerly realized
Military culling overweight and obese troops; Ky. recruitment drops
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military health,
obesity
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
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I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
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I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
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Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
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Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
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Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
