HCM City looks to combat rising child obesity

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HCM City's Nutrition Programme for 2013-15 will focus on combating obesity and non-communicable diseases among primary school students, a conference heard on April 5.

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HCM City looks to combat rising child obesity

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HCM City's Nutrition Programme for 2013-15 will focus on combating obesity and non-communicable diseases among primary school students, a conference heard on April 5.

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38% children in HCMC overweight, obese

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 1 month(s) ago

38% children in HCMC overweight, obese

The rate of overweight or obese children in primary school age in Ho Chi Minh City accounts for 38.5 percent and that of children under five in the city is 11 percent, according to the city’s Nutrition Center.

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HCM City looks to combat rising child obesity

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VietnamPlus English 1 month(s) ago 2 related news

HCM City's Nutrition Programme for 2013-15 will focus on combating obesity and non-communicable diseases among primary school students, a conference heard on April 5.

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HCM City looks to combat rising child obesity

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VietNam News English 1 month(s) ago 2 related news

HCM City's Nutrition Programme for 2013-15 will focus on combating obesity and non-communicable diseases among primary-school students, a conference heard yesterday.

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Bacteria find 'key to treating obesity without surgery'

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VietnamNet English 1 month(s) ago

Weight loss after gastric band surgery may be partly caused by changes to micro-organisms that live in the gut, say US researchers.

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World Bank links obesity to high food prices

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World Bank links obesity to high food prices

WASHINGTON, March 27 – Food prices have dropped since peaking six months ago but remain near record levels, pushing the world's poorest people toward "undernutrition" and obesity, the World Bank said Thursday.

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Vietnamese children either underweight or obese, many lack vitamins

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Vietnamese children either underweight or obese, many lack vitamins

A student girl is given vitamin drops. Photo courtesy of Tuoi Tre

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World Bank links obesity to high food prices

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VietNam News English 1 month(s) ago

Food prices have dropped since peaking six months ago but remain near record levels, pushing the world's poorest people toward "undernutrition" and obesity, the World Bank said on Thursday.

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Over 50% of Vietnamese children deficient in vitamins

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Hanoi Times English 2 month(s) ago

The Hanoitimes - While more than 50% of Vietnamese children aged between 5 and 11 months old are vitamin deficient, the number of obese children is on the rise, the national Nutrition Institute reported.

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Over 50% of Vietnamese children deficient in vitamins

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Over 50% of Vietnamese children deficient in vitamins

While more than 50 percent of Vietnamese children aged between 5 and 11 months old are vitamin deficient, the number of obese children is on the rise, the national Nutrition Institute reported.

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US widower sues airlines for obese wife's death abroad

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US widower sues airlines for obese wife's death abroad

A New York man whose wheelchair-bound, morbidly obese wife died last year after she was denied a spot on three different flights home from Europe sued the airlines on Monday for $6 million.

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Experts urge action on global obesity 'pandemic'

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Experts urge action on global obesity 'pandemic'

Obesity has become a global pandemic that could leave more than half of all adults worldwide overweight within two decades, experts said, calling for urgent action beyond just blaming people for lacking willpower.

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Number of overweight people on the rise

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Number of overweight people on the rise

The number of overweight people in Vietnam increases by 1 percent per year on average and now accounts for 10 percent of the country’s adult population.

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Breakfast @ Tuoitrenews – January 25

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Breakfast @ Tuoitrenews – January 25

Briefs of some of leading news stories that might be carried today on Tuoitrenews.

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