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CDC Reaffirms Obesity as Major Health Threat
CDC Reaffirms Obesity as Major Health Threat -- Posted by The Mongolian Death Worm on 06-10-05 06:17
CDC Reaffirms Obesity as Major Health Threat
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention apologized
on June 2nd for confusion generated by a controversial report
suggesting that being overweight may not be so bad, and reiterated that
obesity is a major public health threat in the United States.
"It is not OK to be overweight. People need to be fit, they need to
have a healthy diet, they need to exercise," CDC chief Julie Gerberding
told a new conference in Atlanta.
"Obesity and overweight ... have many adverse consequences," she said,
including increased risk of heart disease, some cancers,and diabetes.
A furor arose with the release in April of an obesity study, led by
Katherine Flegal of the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics,
suggesting that people who are overweight, but not obese, have a lower
death rate than people of normal weight.
The conclusion raised concerns among some health officials that
overweight people would ignore messages to lose weight.
Gerberding tried to counter such criticism, saying that obesity's link
to major, costly illnesses nevertheless makes it a "serious epidemic"
deserving even greater public attention.
"We need to be absolutely, explicitly clear about one thing: Obesity
and overweight are critically important health threats in this
country," she said.
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