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US obesity rates increased during COVID pandemic, doctors weigh in

Title (Dublin Core)

US obesity rates increased during COVID pandemic, doctors weigh in

Description (Dublin Core)

This is a text story from WITN by Justin Lundy. This is a news story on the increase in obesity rates since COVID started. In a study published by the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, the average BMI in US adults increased by 0.6% between March 2020 and March 2021. This increase happened even as exercise participation rates increased by 4.4%.

Date (Dublin Core)

April 5, 2022

Creator (Dublin Core)

Justin Lundy

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text story

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.witn.com/2022/04/05/us-obesity-rates-increased-during-covid-pandemic-doctors-weigh/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220427024714/https://www.witn.com/2022/04/05/us-obesity-rates-increased-during-covid-pandemic-doctors-weigh/

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Health & Wellness
English News coverage

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

America
US
sitting is the new smoking
obesity
overweight
lathargic

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

obesity
study
American Journal of Preventative Medicine
exercise
weight gain
science

Collection (Dublin Core)

Foodways

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

04/16/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/17/2022
04/26/2022
08/02/2022
04/28/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

04/05/2022

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on April 16, 2022 by [anonymous user] using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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