Mon, Nov-27-00, 15:18
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Plan: LC, GF
Stats: 241/190/140
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Progress: 50%
Location: Eastern ON, Canada
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The figures indicate the problem is even more acute in Canada than in the United States, where obesity among children is one of the most critical health problems.
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Indeed, the study, conducted by Dr. Mark Tremblay of the Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy in Fredericton, NB, seems to indicate that yes the problem is more serious here than in US. I'd like to see further study as to why this is so. ??colder weather, kids stay indoors more?? Interesting.
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...concludes Dr. Ross Anderson of the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in an accompanying commentary for the journal.
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Dr. Anderson is just commenting on the contents of the article, part of the normal peer-review process before publication in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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.....Dr. Peter Katzmarzyk, an epidemiologist at the School of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at York University,
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York University is in Toronto ONT. Assessing the social and economic cost of public health is the role of an Epidemiologist.
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