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‘Xtreme’ Restaurant Foods Promote Obesity with Calories and Fat
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • May 27 10
Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Scripps Howard Foundation Wire - Nutrition and safety watchdogs warn that before you bite into that bacon cheeseburger at…
Abdominal Obesity Linked to Lower Total Brain Volume in Healthy Middle-Aged Adults
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • May 27 10
A significant inverse association between anthropometric and computed tomography (CT)–based measurements of abdominal obesity, especially visceral fat, and total brain volume has been observed…
Obesity remains an economic issue, Seattle obesity study finds
• Obesity • • Public Health • May 27 10
Ensuring access to healthy, affordable foods is a top priority in tackling the obesity epidemic in the United States. Over the course of the…
Parents’ physical inactivity influences children
• Children's Health • • Heart • • Obesity • May 25 10
Children are more likely to watch high levels of television if their parents do, but parents do not need to be physically active to…
‘Obese’ BMI does not harm current health of young adults, study says
• Obesity • May 25 10
A study examining the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and illness suggests that a BMI of 30 or above, a signal of obesity…
Sugary formula spurs obesity debate
• Obesity • May 25 10
Blogging moms and nutritionists are criticizing a new formula for toddlers that comes in chocolate and vanilla flavors, saying it gives kids an early…
Florida orange juice industry worried by obesity campaign
• Obesity • • Public Health • May 25 10
The Florida Department of Citrus may get into a fight with one of the most politically powerful people in the U.S., who goes by…
Obesity remains an economic issue, Seattle obesity study finds
• Obesity • May 24 10
Ensuring access to healthy, affordable foods is a top priority in tackling the obesity epidemic in the United States. Over the course of the…
Game Designers Target Child Obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • May 24 10
Video games are largely one of a myriad of entertainment devices that individuals point to as causes for obesity. However, some game designers are…
Obesity study tests gender, ethnicity
• Obesity • • Public Health • May 24 10
Obesity expert and School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Associate Professor Dong-Chul Seo conducted a study that indicated engaging in the recommended amount…
Heart group and Nintendo Starts an Obesity Campaign
• Obesity • • Public Health • May 24 10
The American Heart Association and Nintendo Co. are reported to be fastening their belts to promote the popular Wii video game console, as the…
Obesity And Your Child. Stop The Cycle
• Obesity • • Public Health • May 23 10
My own personal concern with overweight children is that the children have not been taught by the school, their parents or their doctors the…
McDonald’s Will Impact Obesity Issue More Than Docs
• Obesity • • Public Health • May 21 10
The Wall Street Journal recently published “Our Big Problem: Obesity” penned by a British physician Anthony Daniels, pen name Theodore Dalrymple, who feels that…
Reducing Risk of Childhood Obesity Starts Very, Very Early
• Children's Health • • Obesity • May 21 10
A new report finds combating childhood obesity may start in the womb. Health experts and even First Lady Michelle Obama agree that’s why it’s…
WHO targets child obesity with food marketing curbs
• Children's Health • • Obesity • May 21 10
Health ministers, alarmed at the growing number of obese children, agreed on Thursday to try to reduce children’s consumption of junk food and soft…
Chocolate Enthusiasts And Obesity
• Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • May 21 10
Chocolates have become one of the most well-liked confectioneries ever created and sold. Chocolate lovers, young and old, rich and poor, have found themselves…
Link between obesity and gut bacteria discovered
• Obesity • May 21 10
Obesity now affects 34% of the US population, according to the Centers for Disease Control. And obesity and overweight together affects 67%. Obesity raises…
Abdominal fat at middle age associated with greater risk of dementia
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • • Psychiatry / Psychology • May 20 10
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine determined that excess abdominal fat places otherwise healthy, middle-aged people at risk for dementia later in life.…
More physical activity leads to less obesity—often, but not always
• Obesity • May 20 10
It may seem intuitive that greater amounts of exercise lead to less obesity, but an Indiana University study has found that this conventional…
Reducing niacin intake can prevent obesity
• Obesity • May 20 10
Dietary factors have long been known to play a major role in the development of obesity. The global increasing prevalence of obesity suggests that…
Experts warn on rising obesity levels
• Obesity • May 20 10
Obesity levels in Ireland have reached “epidemic proportions” affecting up to a fifth of all adults and resulting in 2,000 premature deaths annually, according…
Too Fat to Fight: Obesity Now a National Security Issue
• Obesity • • Public Health • May 20 10
Just as the U.S. military was finally making its recruitment quotas for the first time in years (with the unwelcome help of a downwardly…
Obesity epidemic is a smokescreen
• Obesity • • Public Health • May 20 10
In politics, the crisis game works like this: pet issues are turned into national concerns, which then become the object of study for social…
Calcium Deficiencies May Lead To Obesity, Osteoporosis
• Obesity • May 20 10
A new study has found that a calcium deficiency early in life could lead to poor bone health and a higher risk of developing…
Body mass index (BMI) may not measure obesity accurately
• Obesity • May 18 10
The scale of the obesity epidemic may be much worse than currently believed, because the usual measure, body mass index (BMI), is a very…