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Childhood Obesity a National Crisis, Panel Says
• Obesity • Sep 30 04
America’s children are getting fatter and need help from parents, schools, the government, advertisers and the food industry to get back in shape, a…
Obese women who diet not at risk for binge eating
• Obesity • Sep 23 04
Obese women who are considering restricting their calorie intake to shed pounds should not be dissuaded by those who believe dieting may increase their…
Injuries deadlier for obese people: study
• Obesity • Sep 21 04
Obese people who suffer critical injuries are much more likely to die than thinner victims because their overall health tends to be worse and…
Low fitness may outweigh obesity as heart risk
• Obesity • Sep 07 04
Staying fit may be more important than staying trim for a woman’s risk of heart disease - but the opposite appears true when it…
Drug Therapy for Obesity
• Obesity • Sep 04 04
Obesity is a common health problem in the United States, and effective treatment is challenging. Obesity is associated with an increased mortality rate and…
Increase gym time to combat obesity in girls
• Obesity • Sep 01 04
A new report suggests a simple strategy for combating obesity among young girls - increasing their gym time.
Giving first graders just one more…
Make exercise a family affair, experts say
• Obesity • Aug 31 04
Parents should try to encourage their children to exercise by scheduling at least 30 minutes of family physical activities each day, according to the…
Science comes a step closer to a workout in a pill
• Obesity • Jul 16 04
Ever wished you could wash down that pizza, cheesecake and beer with a magic pill to make it all vanish from your waistline?
The…
Obesity risk doubled for kids of obese moms
• Obesity • Jul 07 04
Children whose mothers were obese when they became pregnant are at increased risk of becoming obese themselves, according to a new study.
The results…
Obesity Passed From Moms To Kids?
• Obesity • Jul 06 04
Children born to obese women are more than twice as likely to be overweight by age 4, according to a new study that indicates…
Obesity: Enter the Food Police?
• Obesity • Jun 30 04
You sit down at the fast-food restaurant, and there on your tray are a large soda and two brightly-coloured packages containing your meal.
On…
Obesity risk often overlooked in elderly
• Obesity • Jun 26 04
As growing rates of obesity in children and adults grab headlines, a doctor says another segment of the population is facing the same problem…
Sex life can improve when obese men lose weight
• Obesity • Jun 22 04
Exercise and weight loss may improve sexual function in obese men, researchers in Italy report.
In a new study of more than 100 obese…
No Decline In U.S. Obesity
• Obesity • Jun 16 04
Despite the sounding of the alarm in recent years, the latest government figures show no decline in the U.S. obesity rate, with 31 percent…
Obesity order!
• Obesity • Jun 15 04
Doctors laughed at the American Medical Association annual meeting when one of their own stood up to admit his girth, but the subject was…
Babies, toddlers lose the fat in fitness classes
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • Jun 14 04
Lucy Brown somersaults backward down a ramp, leaps over a mat, rolls across a platform, jumps a series of hoops, squats into a yoga…
Obesity’s effect on mammograms
• Obesity • Jun 06 04
Obese women who have mammograms are much more likely to receive abnormal readings from the tests than are women of ordinary weight, a…
State study suggests national child obesity problem
• Obesity • Jun 04 04
Forty percent of public schoolchildren in Arkansas are overweight, and nearly one in four is obese, a sign that obesity among children nationwide is…
Obesity rising among poor in developing world- study
• Obesity • Jun 03 04
Obesity, once a problem chiefly in the world’s richest countries, is increasingly prevalent among poor and less educated women in developing nations, a study…
Obesity ups kids’ health risk more than expected
• Obesity • Jun 03 04
Obese children are more likely than previously thought to develop a cluster of health conditions that put them at increased risk of diabetes and…
Doctors often cause needless radiation burns - UN
• Obesity • May 27 04
This common procedure and others like it require constant monitoring with x-rays, which results in radiation exposure that is around a thousand times more…
Researchers: exercise lowers employers’ health costs
• Obesity • May 27 04
Companies can save millions in health-care costs simply by encouraging their employees to exercise a little bit, researchers reported on Friday.
They said obese…
WHO Launching Major Obesity Fight
• Obesity • May 27 04
The world’s health ministers tentatively agreed Friday to an unprecedented plan to fight the growing worldwide epidemic of diseases driven by bad diet and…
Tailored obesity treatments possible
• Obesity • May 24 04
Different genetic causes for obesity have been identified, raising the possibility of tailored treatments for patients.
US researchers found different genes were responsible for…
Obese patients ‘can have surgery’
• Obesity • May 24 04
People who are obese should not have to lose weight before they can have surgery, a study suggests.
Surgeons often refuse to operate on…