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Doctors should screen patients for obesity: U.S. panel
• Obesity • • Public Health • Jun 26 12
Doctors should check weight and height for all patients to determine if they’re obese and refer them to intensive diet and exercise programs if…
Omega-3 lowers inflammation in overweight older adults
• Heart • • Obesity • Jun 20 12
New research shows that omega-3 fatty acid supplements can lower inflammation in healthy, but overweight, middle-aged and older adults, suggesting that regular use of…
Soft drink consumption not the major contributor to childhood obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jun 14 12
Most children and youth who consume soft drinks and other sweetened beverages, such as fruit punch and lemonade, are not at any higher risk…
Childhood obesity linked to math performance, MU researcher says
• Obesity • Jun 14 12
Childhood obesity has increased dramatically throughout the past 40 years and has been tied to many health problems. Now, a University of Missouri researcher…
Childhood obesity found linked to math performance
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jun 14 12
Obesity among children has increased dramatically over the past 40 years and has been tied to many health problems. Now a new study has…
Disney junk-food ad ban latest move to slim U.S. kids
• Children's Health • • Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • Jun 05 12
Media and entertainment giant Walt Disney Co’s new steps to limit junk food advertising on TV shows geared toward children is the latest salvo…
Despite obesity rise, kids’ blood pressure dipped: U.S. study
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Jun 05 12
The rate of childhood obesity in the United States may have soared between the 1970s and the 1990s, but children’s blood pressure did not…
As Obesity Rates Rise, Cases of Kidney Stones Double: Study
• Obesity • • Urine Problems • May 27 12
The number of Americans suffering from kidney stones has almost doubled since 1994, researchers report, and the obesity epidemic is the most likely reason…
Obese teen had to be cut from home in U.K.
• Obesity • • Public Health • May 25 12
Emergency workers who needed to take an obese teenager from her home to a hospital in Wales had to break through a wall of…
C-Section Babies Face High Obesity Risk
• Children's Health • • Obesity • May 25 12
A new study has found that babies born by Caesarean section are twice as likely to become obese by the age of three…
Obese patients face increased risk of kidney damage after heart surgery
• Heart • • Obesity • • Surgery • • Urine Problems • May 24 12
Oxidative stress may put obese patients at increased risk of developing kidney damage after heart surgery, according to a study appearing in an upcoming…
Obesity not always tied to higher heart risk: study
• Heart • • Obesity • May 24 12
An obese person isn’t inevitably at increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death, a new U.K. study finds.
“The people really at risk are…
Anti-obesity proposal fails again at McDonald’s
• Obesity • • Public Health • May 24 12
McDonald’s Corp investors soundly rejected a shareholder proposal that would have required the world’s biggest fast-food chain to assess its impact on childhood obesity.
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Mom’s excess pounds key in newborn weight
• Obesity • • Weight Loss • May 22 12
For at least some moms-to-be, it’s extra body fat - and not blood sugar levels - that may be key to their risk…
Half overweight teens have heart risk
• Children's Health • • Heart • • Obesity • May 21 12
Half the nation’s overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and…
Salk study may offer drug-free intervention to prevent obesity and diabetes
• Diabetes • • Obesity • May 17 12
-It turns out that when we eat may be as important as what we eat. Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have…
Brain circuitry is different for women with anorexia and obesity
• Brain • • Obesity • • Psychiatry / Psychology • May 14 12
Why does one person become anorexic and another obese? A study recently published by a University of Colorado School of Medicine researcher shows that…
America’s hatred of fat hurts obesity fight
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • May 12 12
One night when Lynn McAfee was 5 years old, her psychologically troubled mother left her at the side of a road as punishment for…
Obesity and the biological clock
• Obesity • May 10 12
Urgent appointments, tight work timetables and hectic social schedules structure modern life, and they very often clash with our intrinsic biological rhythms. The discrepancy…
Forced to be fat
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • May 10 12
Americans are fatter than ever, but it’s not their fault. That’s according to the latest effort to solve an obesity crisis in the only…
Arena obesity pill wins over U.S. advisers
• Drug News • • Obesity • May 10 12
An experimental obesity pill from Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc won the support of U.S. advisers on Thursday, as public health advocates push for new solutions…
Sleep loss from ‘social jetlag’ tied to obesity
• Obesity • May 10 12
A mismatch between when our internal clock wants us to wake up and when the alarm clock rings to get people to work and…
Nearly half of all Americans will be obese within two decades
• Obesity • May 10 12
A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts that obesity rates in the United States will reach up to 42…
U.S. government urged to fight fat at school
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • • Public Health • May 09 12
A coalition of health advocacy groups on Wednesday urged the U.S. government to put more resources into school-based efforts to improve health and fight…
Deep belly fat may increase after liposuction
• Dieting • • Obesity • May 09 12
A new study suggests that women who have liposuction to trim their tummies may gain some fat deeper within the abdomen - a type…