Obesity

Providence St. Patrick Hospital is presenting its annual Diabetes Day this Saturday, October 29.

After nine months of work by a wide collaboration of community agencies, the 2015-2018 Missoula County Community Health Improvement Plan has been finalized.

Nationally, the rate of obesity in the United States has risen to 27.7 percent in 2014, but according to the new Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index Montana was one of the top states with the lowest obesity rates.

Inventor Bob Balow understands that common folk don’t want a man of his superior genius working on cures for cancer or a way to get ‘Dharma & Greg’ back on television. Sure, those would be nice, but what the people really demand is an easier way to shovel food into their mouth. Bob Balow is a man of the people and those people yearn for the Spaghetti-Pasta-Noodle Fork.

According to a researcher at the University of Illinois, automobiles may be to blame for the increase in obesity levels in America. "People consume food, which is a form of energy, and then they expend it in their activities," said Sheldon H...