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Taxing the dose of calories in sugary drinks could help reduce obesity
• Dieting • • Obesity • • Weight Loss • Jul 17 15
A tax on sugary drinks that depends on the number of calories or amount of sugar per liter could help fight obesity, suggests…
Is this restaurant making me fat?
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • Jul 17 15
Is your favorite restaurant making you fat? New research findings identify an effective tool for measuring how well a restaurant is at helping diners…
Obesity-related behaviors increase when school’s out
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jul 14 15
Regardless of family income, children on summer break consume more sugar, watch more television, and eat fewer vegetables than the rest of the year,…
Obesity drug has no effect on baby birthweights, study finds
• Children's Health • • Childbirth • • Obesity • Jul 10 15
Treating obese pregnant women with a diabetes drug does not stop their babies from being born overweight, a study has found.
Doctors had hoped…
WSU scientists turn white fat into obesity-fighting beige fat
• Fat, Dietary • • Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • Jun 19 15
Washington State University scientists have shown that berries, grapes and other fruits convert excess white fat into calorie-burning “beige” fat, providing new strategies for…
SCOPE program developed to engage communities in preventing childhood obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jun 16 15
A multidisciplinary group of researchers from British Columbia has developed a participatory action research program to help address healthy body weight in children.
The…
Obese patients at high risk of post-surgery complications
• Obesity • • Surgery • Jun 10 15
Research from the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry is revealing the heavy surgical consequences of severe obesity.
The study, published in…
Current BMI tests underestimate obesity in teens with disabilities
• Obesity • Jun 09 15
New approaches, based on body mass index (BMI) or other simple measures, are needed to improve assessment of obesity in adolescents with physical disabilities,…
Increased risks in pregnancy for obese mothers and their babies, says study
• Obesity • • Pregnancy • Jun 03 15
Women with obesity have a range of increased health risks in pregnancy, both for them and their babies, compared with those in the healthy…
Earning a college degree before, but not after, getting married protects against obesity
• Obesity • May 28 15
People who earn a college degree before getting married are much less likely to become obese than those who graduate from college after…
Obesity and weight loss change splicing pattern of obesity and type 2 diabetes genes
• Diabetes • • Obesity • • Weight Loss • May 22 15
Alternative splicing of obesity and type 2 diabetes related genes may contribute to the pathophysiology of obesity, according to research from the University of…
Tackling obesity needs a number of magic bullets
• Obesity • May 15 15
No one health issue has the most impact on human health, or engenders more debate about how to tackle it, than obesity.
It has…
Potential obesity treatment targets the 2 sides of appetite: Hunger and feeling full
• Obesity • May 13 15
Our bodies’ hormones work together to tell us when to eat and when to stop. But for many people who are obese, this system…
Childhood cancer treatment and age influence obesity risk for childhood cancer survivors
• Children's Health • • Cancer • • Obesity • May 12 15
Childhood cancer survivors - especially those whose treatment included brain irradiation or chemotherapy with glucocorticoids - are 14 percent more likely to be…
Certain treatments for childhood cancer may increase obesity risk later in life
• Cancer • • Obesity • May 11 15
Individuals who had cancer as a child may be at increased risk of being obese due to the therapies they received during their youth.…
Moving to a depressed neighborhood linked to weight gain
• Obesity • • Psychiatry / Psychology • May 08 15
Certain regions in the United States are characterized by a higher prevalence of obesity, which suggests that a person’s socioeconomic, physical, and social environments…
Are parents oblivious to obesity in their children?
• Children's Health • • Obesity • May 06 15
When parents ignore a child’s weight problem, they make it harder for the child to achieve a healthy weight and undermine ongoing efforts to…
Kids of severely obese moms have higher risk of ADHD
• Obesity • • Psychiatry / Psychology • May 01 15
Six-year-olds whose mothers were severely obese before pregnancy are more likely to have developmental or emotional problems than kids of healthy-weight moms, according to…
Obesity linked to increased health care costs after plastic surgery
• Obesity • • Surgery • • Weight Loss • Apr 30 15
After common plastic surgery procedures, obese patients have more complications and make more hospital visits—leading to higher healthcare costs, reports a study in the…
Even an hour of TV a day ups risk of childhood obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Apr 29 15
Children who view television as little as an hour a day are significantly more likely to be overweight or obese and gain more unhealthy…
Childhood obesity - 1 epidemic or 2?
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Apr 28 15
New research has indicated that obesity in children has quite different causes at different ages. The research, led by the University of Exeter Medical…
Keeping food visible throughout the house is linked to obesity
• Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • Apr 28 15
Researchers have identified two seemingly unrelated but strong predictors of obesity: having low self-esteem related to one’s weight and keeping food visibly available around…
New Insights Into Obesity and Smoking Stroke Paradoxes
• Obesity • • Tobacco & Marijuana • • Stroke • Apr 25 15
New research shows that that younger, overweight stroke patients have a lower 10-year mortality compared with normal-weight survivors and that compared with nonsmokers, those…
Obesity in children: Breastfeeding is best, but…
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Apr 08 15
Yes, while breastfeeding is the optimal first food for a baby, it’s not as simple to say that it will protect all children from…
New study questions role of breast milk in obesity prevention
• Obesity • Apr 07 15
A new study supports human milk as the optimal first food for babies, but the study raises questions about whether breast milk protects children…