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Genes, lifestyle raise macular degeneration risk
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Genetics • • Obesity • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 08 07
New research suggests that one’s genetic make-up interacts with two modifiable risk factors - obesity and smoking - to multiply the risk of developing…
Overweight 9-year-old girls at heart risk
• Children's Health • • Heart • • Obesity • • Weight Loss • Jan 08 07
Girls as young as age 9 who are overweight are at heightened risk for serious short-term and long-term health problems that put them at…
Heart experts target childhood obesity
• Obesity • Apr 18 05
The dire health effects associated with the ballooning waistlines of children and adolescents in the United States have prompted the American Heart Association to…
U.S. child obesity dragging down health gains
• Obesity • Mar 30 05
Child Obesity has more than tripled in three decades and the increased health risk associated with being fat has wiped out progress in other…
Stomach Surgery Helps Obese Patients with Reflux
• Obesity • Dec 02 04
For obese patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) that persists after standard surgery, relief may come from a type of “keyhole” operation that reduces…
Toy companies make getting off the couch fun
• Obesity • Nov 15 04
The battle of the bulge has expanded into the toy aisles.
As more American adults dabble in fad diets and the obesity rate…
Obesity linked to leukemia in older women
• Obesity • Nov 11 04
Being obese more than doubles the risk of a type of leukemia - acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) - in older women, according to…
Risk of leukemia high in older obese women
• Obesity • Nov 10 04
New research has found a higher risk of leukemia among older overweight women, offering another piece of evidence that carrying extra pounds can increase…
Overweight urged to slim down to cut diabetes risk
• Obesity • Nov 09 04
Half the world’s depression cases could be eliminated by curbing the soaring number of people who are overweight, health experts said on…
Obesity, child mortality slowing US health gains
• Obesity • Nov 08 04
Rising obesity rates and the number of people without health insurance are placing a drag on health gains for the American population, according…
Obesity as unhealthy as heart failure -study
• Obesity • Nov 08 04
Very obese people are as unhealthy, and probably as likely to die, as patients with heart failure, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
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Heavy Passengers Weigh On Airlines’ Bottom Lines
• Obesity • Nov 05 04
America’s bulging waistlines are now weighing down the airline industry, as it takes more and more fuel to get planes in the air.
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Obesity surgery data on elderly scarce, panel says
• Obesity • Nov 04 04
Obesity surgery has helped many patients lose weight and improve their health, a panel of experts told U.S. regulators on Thursday, but they…
Obesity Changes Heart Muscle
• Obesity • Nov 03 04
Being overweight or obese can hurt the heart, even in people who don’t have heart disease .
New research from Australia spotlights…
Abdominal fat linked to women’s heart attack risk
• Obesity • Nov 02 04
In elderly women, there appears to be no association between obesity in itself and the odds of having a heart attack, researchers report. However,…
Midlife obesity predicts future stroke risk in men
• Obesity • Oct 29 04
A high body mass index (BMI) in middle-aged men is associated with an increased likelihood of having a stroke over the next two or…
Puberty Gene May Be Linked to Obesity
• Obesity • Oct 28 04
A gene that delays female puberty and may be linked to obesity has been identified by Oregon Health & Science University researchers. Experiments with…
Man who weighed half ton recovering from obesity surgery
• Obesity • Oct 27 04
A man who weighed about half a ton when he was admitted to a hospital was recovering Wednesday from obesity surgery.
Patrick Deuel, 42,…
Americans a bit taller, much heavier, report says
• Obesity • Oct 27 04
Americans are getting taller on average but they are much heavier too, according to government figures released on Wednesday showing that the U.S. population…
Obesity More And More Costly
• Obesity • Oct 23 04
ATLANTA - Emory University researchers say rising obesity rates account for more than a quarter of the growth in health spending.
Treating obesity-related conditions…
How Does Obesity Cause Cancer?
• Obesity • Oct 17 04
A German physician was awarded a Nobel prize in 1931 for determining that sugar feeds cancer. Now contemporary researchers have determined some of the…
Waist measurement key to diabetes, heart risks
• Obesity • Oct 13 04
Waist circumference, rather than overall weight, is the truest indicator of an increased risk of diabetes or heart disease, a leading British…
Six in 10 adult Beijingers are overweight - paper
• Obesity • Oct 12 04
About 60 percent of adults in Beijing are overweight, and obesity, once the preserve of the West, is becoming more and more common among…
Obesity lowers odds of surviving breast cancer
• Obesity • Oct 06 04
Previous reports have shown that obesity increases a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer - and now new research indicates that obesity continues to…
Kids need help staying slim, Congress told
• Obesity • Oct 06 04
Schools may need more money and regulators may need more authority to help keep America’s children from spiraling into obesity, experts and politicians told…