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Baby Fat May Not Be So Cute After All
• Children's Health • • Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • Mar 23 10
Schools have banned cupcakes, issued obesity report cards and cleared space in cafeterias for salad bars. Just last month, Michelle Obama’s campaign to end…
Researchers: Seaweed Holds Key to Fighting Obesity
• Obesity • Mar 23 10
Seaweed could be the answer to the obesity epidemic, potentially reducing the body’s fat retention by more than 75 percent.
A fibrous material…
Prader-Willi syndrome: a form of obesity that can be explained
• Genetics • • Obesity • Mar 21 10
Prader-Willi syndrome, also known as PWS is an uncommon genetic disorder (present at birth) in which seven genes (or subsets) on chromosome 15 are…
Public Health receives grants to fight obesity, tobacco use
• Obesity • • Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 21 10
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today that Public Health - Seattle…
Stimulus money to help build healthier Hub
• Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 21 10
Boston has received $12.5 million in federal stimulus funding for a sweeping new effort to combat obesity and reduce smoking, Mayor Thomas M. Menino…
Omaha Gets Money to Fight Childhood Obesity
• Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 21 10
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is trying to combat the obesity problem by distributing over 372 million dollars in grants. Some…
US child obesity problem worse than thought
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 19 10
Extreme obesity among American children is much worse than previously believed, putting them at greater risk of serious health problems as they age,…
Supplement may slow overweight kids’ fat gain
• Children's Health • • Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • Mar 18 10
Supplements containing the dietary fat conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) may help overweight kids curb the amount of fat they gain over time, a small…
Obesity Boot Camps Not the Answer; but Gym Class Is.
• Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 18 10
Obesity boot camps are not the answer to the nation’s waistline problem, says Deborah J. Wray, associate professor in the department of kinesiology…
Severe obesity raises risk of poor H1N1 outcome
• Obesity • Mar 18 10
Severe obesity makes it almost five times more likely that adults infected with the H1N1 pandemic influenza virus will be ill enough to…
Obesity challenge begins
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 18 10
The national campaign to reduce the childhood obesity rate that’s tripled in size during the past 30 years has inspired a local challenge…
Strokes strike younger adults as diabetes and obesity raise the risks
• Diabetes • • Obesity • • Stroke • Mar 18 10
Diabetes due to obesity may be increasing the risk of strokes among younger adults, recent research indicates.
This attack on the brain is striking…
Is School Lunch Contributing To Childhood Obesity?
• Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 18 10
As Michelle Obama took to the pages of Newsweek to explain her crusade against childhood obesity and to introduce her Let’s Move program to…
First lady asks foodmakers to be on front line tackling childhood obesity
• Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 17 10
Michelle Obama on Tuesday called on corporate food giants such as Coca-Cola, General Mills and Kraft Foods to step up efforts to produce more…
Obesity: Food kills, flab protects
• Obesity • Mar 17 10
OBESITY kills, everyone knows that. But is it possible that we’ve been looking at the problem in the wrong way? It seems getting fatter…
Obesity, passive smoking dangerous for unborn child
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 17 10
Babies born to obese mothers and exposed to passive smoking are more likely to face health problems, a new study claims.
The conclusion is…
Obesity builds immunity to fight flu
• Obesity • Mar 17 10
A new research has shown that obesity limits the body’s ability to develop immunity to influenza viruses, particularly secondary infections, by inhibiting the immune…
Geisinger Obesity Expert to Address Nation’s Lt. Governors
• Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 17 10
Director of Geisinger’s Obesity Institute Christopher D. Still, D.O., will address the Federal-State Relations Meeting of the National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA) in Washington,…
Tax soda, pizza to cut obesity, researchers say
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Obesity • Mar 16 10
The researchers, writing in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine on Monday, suggested taxing could be used as a weapon in the fight against…
Big Soda should pick up the tab for role in obesity crisis
• Obesity • Mar 16 10
Despite the best efforts of the soda industry to keep a lid on any discussion of a soda tax, the concept keeps bubbling up.…
Mom’s Obesity Influences Kid’s Weight
• Children's Health • • Obesity • • Weight Loss • Mar 16 10
Scientists at two ARS-funded nutrition research centers are examining how maternal influences of the unborn child and the developing newborn could increase the risk…
New Jersey Woman Wants to Weigh 1,000 Pounds
• Dieting • • Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 16 10
Simpson, of Old Bridge, N.J., is 42 years old, has two kids and a boyfriend, and she weighs 602 pounds. That’s right ... 602…
Michelle Obama Takes Anti-Obesity Drive to Food Makers
• Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 16 10
First lady Michelle Obama will test the limits of her bully pulpit Tuesday when she tells the Grocery Manufacturers Association about voluntary moves the…
For Obese People, Prejudice in Plain Sight
• Obesity • Mar 16 10
As a woman whose height and weight put me in the obese category on the body-mass-index chart, I cringed when Michelle Obama recently spoke…
County among fittest in U.S.
• Obesity • • Public Health • Mar 15 10
You want the skinny on San Luis Obispo? Just look around.
San Luis Obispo County is the fifth “slimmest” — or fifth least obese…