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Gut bug may influence obesity
• Obesity • May 07 10
Obese patients who test positive for methane on their breath have a significantly higher body mass index (BMI) than their peers, according to…
It’s Time for Parents to Turn the Tide on Childhood Obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • May 06 10
Everyday life has become so busy that it can be hard to follow through on the things we want to do to ensure the…
Cost of Obesity
• Obesity • • Public Health • May 04 10
Over the past decade in Tennessee, cases of obesity have increased from 19% to 31%; a third of us are overweight.
And with obesity…
High obesity rates in disabled children
• Children's Health • • Obesity • May 04 10
Washington, May 4 (ANI): Children who are disabled are at increased risk of becoming obesity. Now, a team of researchers has described possible ways…
US Military Sets Its Sights On Obesity
• Obesity • May 03 10
The growing rate of obesity in young Americans could undermine the future of the United States military, as many potential recruits are too overweight…
New studies examine adverse outcomes associated with obesity and more applicable measures of obesity
• Obesity • May 03 10
Pay-for-performance reimbursement models may create unintended financial incentives for doctors to discriminate against obese patients, measuring a patient’s waist circumference may be more effective…
Our children need us to cope with obesity epidemic
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Public Health • May 03 10
There’s a childhood obesity epidemic. And, the planet isn’t flat. Big news, right? I’m afraid our conscience has already been seared to the point…
Obesity (Excessive Fat, Overweight, Big Belly)
• Obesity • May 03 10
The foods we eat every day contribute to our well being. Foods provide us with the nutrients we need for healthy bodies and the…
Lousy school lunches fuel childhood obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • May 03 10
More exercise, less soda. This has been a mantra among those battling childhood obesity, and many school health initiatives have taken it up.
But…
New Government Pay-for-Performance Policies Punish Doctors Who Care for Obese Patients
• Obesity • • Public Health • May 03 10
Pay-for-performance reimbursement of surgeons, intended to reward doctors and hospitals for good patient outcomes, may instead be creating financial incentives for discriminating against…
Being Obese Can Attract Bullies
• Children's Health • • Obesity • May 03 10
Obese children are more likely to be bullied regardless of gender, race, socioeconomic status, social skills or academic achievement.
Those are the findings of…
Fructose fueling childhood obesity, diabetes
• Children's Health • • Diabetes • • Obesity • May 02 10
Widespread use of the sweetener fructose may be directly responsible for some of the ongoing increase in rates of childhood diabetes and obesity, according…
Need to teach children early about obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Apr 30 10
It’s a sad commentary on today’s society that the obesity epidemic now extends to the preschool crowd.
Nationally, the percentage of obese preschoolers doubled…
Obesity link to smoking mothers
• Obesity • Apr 30 10
The children of women who smoked while pregnant may be more likely to be obese in their late teenage years, a study showed today.
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The latest national security threat: obesity
• Obesity • Apr 30 10
Are we becoming a nation too fat to defend ourselves?
It seems incredible, but these are the facts: As of 2005, at least 9…
Mothers’ obesity tied to newborn heart defects
• Children's Health • • Heart • • Obesity • Apr 29 10
The more obese a woman is when she becomes pregnant, the greater the likelihood that her baby will be born with a heart defect,…
Obesity associated with increased risk of fibromyalgia
• Obesity • • Pain • • Rheumatic Diseases • Apr 29 10
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have found an association between the level of leisure time physical exercise and a future…
Urban migrants in India risk obesity, diabetes: Study
• Diabetes • • Obesity • • Public Health • Apr 28 10
People who move from villages to cities to work are more likely to end up obese and suffer from diabetes compared to their siblings…
Obesity might be a factor in how kids metabolize drugs
• Obesity • Apr 28 10
Obesity could affect how children metabolize medication, according to a study presented this week.
Researchers from the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy tested…
Obesity: The walking financial time bomb
• Obesity • • Public Health • Apr 28 10
While many countries watch their financial debts mount, there is another ticking timebomb walking the streets, says obesity expert Professor Tony Leeds.
In this…
Local study links teen obesity to mothers who smoked during pregnancy
• Obesity • • Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 28 10
Mothers who smoke during pregnancy are not only increasing the risk of their babies being born with a low birth weight, respiratory problems and…
Winning The Fight Against Childhood Obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Apr 28 10
As a father of a nine-year-old, I see millions, perhaps billions of dollars spent on primary colored workbooks and take home paraphernalia for children.…
Pennsylvania makes inroads into reducing child obesity
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Apr 26 10
Pennsylvania school districts set goals and improved snacks and a la carte offerings to meet federal legislation for reducing childhood obesity, but opportunities for…
Weighty problem clogging U.S. health insurance
• Obesity • • Public Health • • Weight Loss • Apr 26 10
Americans are living large — and health officials say it is costing them their health and savings.
One-third of the American population is obese.…
Obesity – a threat to national security as well as health?
• Obesity • • Public Health • Apr 26 10
Back in the age of harvest gold and avocado green appliances, school cafeterias were bad, real bad.
Children sat at lunch tables wearing double-knit…