The Friday Five – Combating Childhood Obesity
September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. In today’s world 2 out of 3 children do not get any physical activity on a daily basis….
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Obesity Data Challenge Winners!
By Adnan Mahmud – Local health officials are responsible for promoting the health of the populations they serve. However, they don’t always have access to…
Big Data for a Big Problem: Putting Data To Work To Tackle Obesity
By Edward L. Hunter – The obesity epidemic has far-reaching consequences: it is a primary driver of continually climbing health care costs, it foreshadows an unhealthier and costlier workforce that will burden global economic competitiveness, and it is reversing more than a century of progress in which each generation lived longer and healthier lives than the one before it.
Obesity Data Challenge
By Chris Boone – It’s hard to hide from the data – obesity is a growing and global challenge we must collectively fight. Today, the…