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University of Washington investigators say that humans and rats are two species in which structural changes affecting the brain can lead to the development of obesity. As such, the unsuspecting rodents are used as a proxy for humans, with researchers trying to figure out how to stop the condition.
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3 January 2012
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Investigators at the Ohio State University say that the nature of relationships between mothers and their babies are important factors in determining the weight that child will have later on in life. The way the two interact also reflects on the self-image the child will have as he or she grows into a teen.
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27 December 2011
05:18 GMT |
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A common misconception is that diets are automatically more expensive than eating “regular” food, which more often than not, is junk food. A new research shows that families can in fact save money by choosing to eat healthy.
Published in the latest issue of the esteemed British Journal of General Practi... |
16 December 2011
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In a new study conducted on lab mice that were prone to becoming obese, researchers learned that transplanting immature nerve cells called neurons into the rodents' brains prevented the development of this dangerous condition.
The investigation could have significant applications in reducing obesity throughout ... |
25 November 2011
03:55 GMT |
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An expert at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) now proposes a new explanation for why the obesity wave currently sweeping America is causing more and more victims.
At this point, officials statics indicated that as many as 34 percent of all citizens in the ... |
24 November 2011
08:42 GMT |
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A group of experts at the Brown University says that a special enzyme can be used in mice to reduce rodents' weight gain. At the same time, the animals display an improved metabolism, and show significantly higher insulin efficiency than their peers.
These results are very encouraging, if they could only be app... |
15 November 2011
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Ashley Madison is a “dating” website that fixes married men and women with potential partners. One of its latest adds features a supersize model named Jacqueline – and she is outraged that her image is being used for such a purpose. Working under the motto “Life is short. Have an affair,&rdquo... |
9 November 2011
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According to the results of a new study, it would appear that fast food habits are not exclusively responsible for the high obesity rates encountered in poor people in the United States. This is a common misconception, the research team explains, but one that is not without merit.
This study is not meant to say tha... |
31 October 2011
04:44 GMT |
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In a paper published in the latest issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSMC) say that estrogen regulation dysfunction in the female brain may lead to obesity. The team explains that a number of areas in the brains of women who are predisposed to o... |
22 October 2011
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At this time, many drugs against obesity and diabetes are available on the market, but most of them have their actions disrupted by an enzyme called PTP1B. Researchers in the United States now say that they can use this molecule as a target for a new type of treatment.
The team – which is based at the Cold S... |
30 September 2011
05:44 GMT |
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A team of experts from the Karolinska Institutet, in Sweden, say that they were able to establish a direct link between the onset of metabolic conditions such as blood lipid disorder, diabetes and obesity and a dysfunction occurring in lipid cells.
If put to good use, this discovery could result in the development... |
26 September 2011
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Placing an emphasis on the importance of a healthy diet in our lives, US officials announced a new campaign aimed at reducing the consumption of soda and other sugary drinks is to launch this October.Dubbed “Life’s sweeter with fewer sugary drinks,” the campaign will take place in several major citi... |
16 September 2011
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Susanne Eman from Arizona has a goal very few other people on the face of the planet could possibly relate to: she wants to be the fattest woman in the world and, in the process, prove that being fat “is OK,” she says. Eman estimates she’s already heavier than Donna Simpson, who is the record holder... |
19 August 2011
16:51 GMT |
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In a new study, researchers demonstrate that not all obese individuals are unhealthy, or got so as a result of an unhealthy diet, combined with a sedentary lifestyle. At the same time, the work reveals that fatter people are at lower risks of developing certain conditions than their thinner peers. The new investigati... |
17 August 2011
08:45 GMT |
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH) were recently able to determine why is it that parents continue to feed their children fast food, even when they know about the adverse side-effects of doing so. The main question the team wanted to answer was whether parents a... |
16 August 2011
08:54 GMT |
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In a new paper published in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, researchers at the Rush University Medical Center say that obesity can be viewed as a result of neurobehavioral processes. This approach may open up new ways of fighting the condition.Up until this point, the most widely... |
3 August 2011
09:27 GMT |
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Researchers have proposed a long time ago that obesity and cancer are somewhat related, in the sense that the presence of one in the body can favor the development of the other. A team of experts was just awarded an important grant to study this possible correlation.The money, a total of $9.2 million, were provided b... |
29 July 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new investigation, it would appear that social and public health programs meant to promote the reduction of stress in the general population may also be effective against obesity.Researchers say that losing weight is one of the unexpected benefits of being stress-free, or at least le... |
26 July 2011
03:54 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that personality traits can indeed influence a person's weight, either in a positive or a negative manner. The investigation is based on an accurate analysis of more than 50 years of data in this field.Simple personality traits can be statis... |
19 July 2011
08:59 GMT |
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A recent investigation suggests that bariatric surgery is the most cost-effective way to deal with people who are severely obese. While this has been known for quite some time, the work also suggests that the same correlation holds true for mildly-obese patients as well. This study is the latest in a series of resear... |
14 July 2011
10:08 GMT |
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In a new investigation, researchers determined that teenagers who are binge eaters, or who engage in other unhealthy and excessive weight control behaviors, tend to carry the habit with them into adulthood. This contributes to the growing incidence of obesity and other diseases in the population.Experts at the Univer... |
27 June 2011
05:59 GMT |
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Very often, former smokers complain about gaining weight. Unconsciously, they associate smoking with being thin, and have more incentives to pick up the habit again. But soon, new drugs may prevent this from happening, by acting on a new class of receptors that bind to nicotine.A specific subclass of nicotine recepto... |
13 June 2011
03:24 GMT |
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A few years ago, Malissa Jones became the youngest person in Britain to get gastric bypass surgery on the NHS to deal with her morbid obesity. Now, she’s been diagnosed an anorexic and has only months to live – and she’s using the time left to speak against the weight loss surgery. Jones has made he... |
9 June 2011
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Researchers have recently demonstrated that weight loss therapy conducted online is just as effective, if not even more so, than traditional approaches to getting people to lose weight. Given the rampant spread of obesity in the developed world, the new study cannot be ignored.In fact, given the prevalence of Interne... |
6 June 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new, small-scale scientific study, it would appear that toddlers who lose sleep during the early years of their lives are more prone to becoming obese later in life. The risk was found to be proportional to the amount of lost sleep, experts say. The study was carried out for several ... |
30 May 2011
04:14 GMT |
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With the rate of teen obesity reaching 18 percent in the United States, experts are constantly looking for methods of reducing its incidence. One of the main reasons why obesity may be running rampant is because teens who play a lot of video games tend to eat a lot more than their peers who don't.Official statis... |
18 May 2011
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Genetics experts announce the discovery of a regulatory master gene, that is involved in underlying the development of type II diabetes, and also in controlling and supervising the behavior of numerous other genes, that act within fat cells in the human body.This finding indicates a possible new target of treatment i... |
16 May 2011
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Following a three-year study conducted on White and Black teens (no Hispanics), researchers found out that being overweight or obese does not necessarily imply those individuals are more likely to be depressed than their lean, fitter peers. The new work is only the last to add to a massive volume of literature on the... |
26 April 2011
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Experts have demonstrated in a new study that people who see overweight or fat peers tend to be more likely to select and eat indulgent foods. The question as to whether seeing people who are obese makes other hungry themselves has been a reason for debate in the scientific community for some time. The new investigat... |
19 April 2011
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According to a new research published online today, children are most likely to reach their peak obesity around the ages of 7 to 11. Knowing this is of great importance for scientists, as they can now start work on developing methods to prevent this from happening. One of the things that most researchers know about c... |
6 April 2011
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According to a new research, people who want to lose weight may be more successful in their attempt if they also applied methods of relieving stress. Getting sufficient sleep each night, between 6 and 8 hours, has also been demonstrated to have an impact on weight loss. In the study, experts analyzed test subjects wh... |
1 April 2011
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Researchers have recently determined that people around the world, regardless of culture or creed, tend to place a stigma on overweight and obese people. Apparently, this is becoming a worldwide cultural norm, in spite of the fact that a small portion of those who are obese got so because they are sick.Experts came t... |
29 March 2011
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Scientists report in a new research paper that teens and young adults who are in the habit of attending religious functions at least once per week are 50 percent more likely to become fat by middle age. Those who do not attend these activities are at a decreased risk of suffering from obesity at the same age, add res... |
28 March 2011
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Scientists have recently made a discovery that could have significant consequences for the 33 percent of the American population that is considered obese. They learned that mothers who are obese are more likely than their peers to have children that are infertile, or whose fertility is much lower than normal.The disc... |
23 March 2011
11:56 GMT |
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Most respondents to a new poll believe that the American government should play a larger role in stemming the rampant spread of obesity than it does today. People believe that childhood obesity is the most significant form of the disease, and that this is where governmental actions should be focused.Interestingly, pa... |
10 March 2011
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Healthcare experts determined in previous studies that infants born with reduced weight tended to become obese later in life, a lot more so than their peers with a normal birth weight. A new research sheds light on the mechanisms underlying this correlation. Scientists discovered that the primary reason for which thi... |
10 March 2011
09:02 GMT |
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The physical health of obese individuals may depend on the manner they are treated in a restaurant, on the street or in the workplace, the results of a new study shows. Experts argue that discrimination can have a direct effect on physical health in this population. Scientists at the Purdue University analyzed obese ... |
3 March 2011
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Tonsillectomy is the most common major surgical procedure underwent by children, and a new research suggests that it is linked to an increased risk of obesity.It seems that having your kid's tonsils surgically removed, with or without the removal of the adenoids (adenoidectomy), puts him/her at high risk of beco... |
1 February 2011
06:31 GMT |
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The results of a new scientific investigation seem to indicate that some of the medical complications that can be associated with weight gain and increasing obesity include anxiety and depression. This is one of the first researches to document such a correlation between carrying extra weight and mental predispositio... |
26 January 2011
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In winter, everybody does what they can to stay warm, and to make their home as comfortable as possible but it seems it is not such a good idea after all, because, according to a UCL research, the increases in winter indoor temperatures could be contributing to rises in obesity.This review paper looks at evidence of ... |
25 January 2011
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Research carried out by a genetic epidemiologist at the Medical College of Georgia, at Georgia Prevention Institute, concluded that fat is somehow linked to certain chemical changes in the DNA, and this could be the explanation for the high risk of chronic issues, like cardiovascular disease and diabetes, in obese pe... |
21 January 2011
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People who manage to take more steps every day not only help prevent obesity, but also reduce their disk of developing diabetes, a new study published on bmj.com today, concluded.There is certain popular belief that we should take 10,000 steps every day, but a more recent recommendation lowered the number to 3,000 st... |
13 January 2011
18:41 GMT |
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A lot have changed these past years – parents are far busier and less patient than they were once, breast milk can be replaced with all sorts of baby formulas and there is also the baby food that you can buy at your supermarket.The point is that babies nowadays eat a lot of things they shouldn't, or at lea... |
10 January 2011
09:42 GMT |
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Official statistics from the United Kingdom show that, on a national scale, the number of children that are born with extra fat on their bodies is increasing at an alarming rate. The finding is significant, as it highlights an issue which has not been taken into account too much over the years. Just to make things cl... |
10 January 2011
04:57 GMT |
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Extremely obese people infected with the 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus, had much higher risks of death than others did, a new analysis of a public health surveillance database reported.Researchers from the California Pandemic (H1N1) Working Group and the Division of Communicable Disease Control, of the Calif... |
5 January 2011
04:36 GMT |
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Paul Mason is still believed to be the world’s fattest man but that’s a distinction he doesn’t plan on holding onto for too long. Having lost 20 stone already (approximately 128 kg), Mason is mobile again. The former postman has a long history of losing and gaining back weight, but, this time, he&rs... |
3 January 2011
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It looks like obesity is the great pandemy of this century since over a billion adults in the world are overweight and 300 million of them – clinically obese.Today, in fighting obesity, most people only consider body mass, and completely ignore the amount of adipose tissue within the body, so biologist Aline Je... |
29 December 2010
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While women all over the world are striving to make it through the holidays with as few extra pounds as possible, Donna Simpson of New Jersey, US, has only one thing on her mind: to become world’s fattest woman. Consequently, her Christmas dinner was more like a 2-hour eating marathon for one, where she consume... |
27 December 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Monell Center researchers found that the type of formula an infant is being fed, influences his/her weight gain, which means that parents need to be very careful, since the child can develop obesity, diabetes or other diseases later in life.Most baby formulas are based on cow milk, but there are some soy-based and pr... |
27 December 2010
08:17 GMT |
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A new research, funded by the British Heart Foundation and led by scientists from Oxford University, concluded that men piled on more than a stone between 1986 and 2000.The team conducted a very complex project, that analyzed all the changes in food consumption and body weight in men, over this 15-year period.Theoret... |
27 December 2010
04:48 GMT |
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