More than 20 percent of all adults in the U.S. are obese according to a new CDC study. People living in the South were the most likely to be obese and people in the West were the least likely.
A new study found smokers using e-cigarettes to kick the habit are more likely to succeed if they use e-cigarettes frequently. Georgetown University researchers tracked more than 24,000 former cigarette smokers and found the odds of successfully quitting increased by 10 percent with each additional day of e-cigarette use.
Researchers said the 2015 spike in U.S. road deaths is not related to cell phone use behind the wheel as previously thought, but rather climate change. 2015 was an exceptionally warm year and research in the British Medical Journal found the death rate was higher in warmer areas and in regions with higher rainfall. Both weather conditions typically lead to people driving more.
Sources:
1 – CDC
2 – Georgetown University Medical Center
3 – BMJ
