Re: Obesity Epidemic: US Temporal Trends

In article <1161688441.905158.285520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Epidemiologic" <epidemiologic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Obesity Epidemic: US Temporal Trends

Although well known to most obesity researchers and epidemiologist, the
public is generally not aware of the true magnitude of the obesity
epidemic. At the link below is a classic report by the CDC of the
emergence of the obesity epidemic in the United States from the early
1980's to 2004.

http://www.epidemiologic.org/2006/10/obesity-epidemic-us-temporal-trends.html



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Thanks for posting!

Folks be sure to look at

http://www.epidemiologic.org/2006/10/whi-low-fat-dietary-trial-what-billi
on.html

or http://tinyurl.com/yxlw73

same site.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 05, 2006
WHI Low-Fat Dietary Trial: What a Billion-Dollar Trial Showed that
Epidemiology Already Knew

As they say in baseball and criminal felonies- "3 strikes and you're
out" - however, is this adage necessary true in medical research? In a
recent blockbuster issue of JAMA, investigators from the decade-long
Women's Health Initiative low-fat dietary trial simultaneously reported
the results for breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and cardiovascular
disease... in essense, results indicated no overall benefit of a low-fat
dietary pattern.

Edited for brevity a large snip.

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