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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
09:25 GMT |
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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
20:01 GMT |
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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
10:25 GMT |
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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
09:07 GMT |
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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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A group of scientists from the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Center (APC), Cork, University College Cork and Teagasc, in Ireland, designed probiotics that can change the physiology of fat cells, possibly finding a way of treating conditions like obesity.They actually engineered a strain of Lactobacillus to produce a versio... |
23 December 2010
06:02 GMT |
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Obesity looks like the 21st century plague of mankind, so researchers are continuously conducting studies hoping to find that miraculous weight-loss therapy, and for once, a team of scientists from the Joslin Diabetes Center, found a group of cells in mice, that can be transformed into energy-burning brown fat.Adults... |
21 December 2010
04:28 GMT |
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Being called 'obese' is worse than being called 'fat', and the way we qualify a heavy-weight person can influence the opinions we make on people, according to a new study carried out by the University of New south Wales.The research concluded that the term 'obese people' triggers more ne... |
13 December 2010
04:22 GMT |
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A new research concluded that for many women dealing with depression and obesity, improving their mood is linked to them loosing weight.
The study is actually based on past surveys that proved that having a body mass index of 30 or more, rises one's risk of depression by 50 to 150 percent.
Lead author Greg... |
11 December 2010
06:15 GMT |
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It seems like the world is getting used to having increasing obesity rates in youngsters, since people say that it's hard to convince kids to eat better and exercise more. There are a few elements that can lower the risk of obesity, like fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption or increasing water intake and physic... |
7 December 2010
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A new record has been set in terms of women’s lingerie: a company called Big Bloomers, catering for overweight and obese women, has come out with the XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL knickers – and they’re selling like hot cakes. Founded by a retired insurance broker and her daughter, Dianne and Laura Mannering, Bi... |
3 December 2010
15:21 GMT |
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Scientists say that people who have trouble sleeping may be at an increased risk of developing metabolic syndromes. Furthermore, the individuals affected by such issues in a chronic manner may already by suffering from the conditions.By sleep problems, researchers refer to a variety of disturbances that occur during ... |
2 December 2010
10:15 GMT |
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The couch potato mouse is the new model for studying muscle function, and it is the result of the latest research carried out by Daniel Kelly, MD, and his colleagues at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) at Lake Nona. The couch potato effect comes from a missing protein called PGC-1, that a... |
1 December 2010
09:11 GMT |
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Some women obsess over their weight and believe they could always stand to lose a few more, even if they’re rail thin. Others, on the contrary, are overweight but they’re in denial, believing they’re just about right, a new study reveals. US researchers have learned that one woman in 4 with weight i... |
23 November 2010
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A new study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the World Health Organization comes to reveal that the only way to effectively cut obesity rates in the UK is to apply the so-called “fat tax.”This would mean, of course, putting junk food on par with cigarettes and alcohol, whi... |
12 November 2010
16:21 GMT |
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A recent investigation has demonstrated that children who were found to have low levels of vitamin D in their bloodstreams were a lot more likely to be predisposed to rapid weight gains, and also to accumulating more fat around their waists. Researchers are not yet sure about the mechanisms underlying this correlatio... |
9 November 2010
06:10 GMT |
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A new research found that once fat cells and tissues of morbidly obese people and animals no longer can store fat appropriately, they trigger changes within the body, that are linked to type 2 diabetes and other obesity-related diseases.This work was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Counci... |
8 November 2010
08:38 GMT |
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According to a new investigation by researchers at the Harvard University, it would appear that the current obesity epidemic sweeping the United States will not cease until about 42 percent of the general population is affected. The research also takes into account several factors that other studies did not consider ... |
5 November 2010
05:41 GMT |
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Everyone knows that obesity strikes the heart sooner or later, but a new study on fruit flies detailed the link between obesity and heart disease.With over a third of Americans being obese, many of them have a high risk of developing cancer, diabetes and heart disease, but because for these conditions there are other... |
3 November 2010
05:26 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge found that an anti-obesity drug, called sibutramine, actually works, because it changes the way that the brain responds to appetizing, high-calorie foods.This discovery might just be the first right step towards developing an efficient anti-obesity drug, that would simply re... |
27 October 2010
08:52 GMT |
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Obese children have stiff blood vessels, a phenomenon which is typical for middle-aged people with cardiovascular diseases, said Dr. Kevin Harris today, at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2010, co-hosted by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Dr Harris, who works at British C... |
25 October 2010
05:54 GMT |
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If you think of becoming a father, you should start eating healthy food, a new research carried out by the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, suggests.Previous research has already proven that a poor maternal diet along with obesity can damage the offspring's metabolism and rise their risk of ob... |
21 October 2010
09:02 GMT |
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Finally, a more accurate and trust worthy method of measuring the risk factors associated with an individual's body shape and type, by analyzing their weight and body fat distribution, has been launched.This is the new and correct way to measure obesity nowadays, and identify people that are at risk of heart dis... |
21 October 2010
02:55 GMT |
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A new research at the University of Texas at Austin concluded that insulin sensitivity could be the link between obesity and memory problems.Obese individuals have insulin sensitivity impairment and because of this, they have different brain responses than normal-weight people do, while completing cognitive tasks.Pre... |
20 October 2010
09:04 GMT |
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A high fat diet is generally unhealthy but it appears that it also aggravates sepsis, a new experimental study in mice suggests.Sepsis is a very serious medical condition that manifests itself through a whole-body inflammatory state – a systemic inflammatory response syndrome or SIRS, due to the presence of a k... |
19 October 2010
08:40 GMT |
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Besides what everybody knows that obesity is related to bad food habits and sedentary lifestyle, it appears that the common childhood obesity is linked to several genetic variations, a new research suggests.Dr. Struan Grant from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and his colleagues carried out a genetic ana... |
15 October 2010
06:47 GMT |
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Reality series “The Biggest Loser” has always been shrouded in a bit of controversy, especially after a former winner publicly spoke against it – but a new study shows there is nothing damaging about the way the participants lose weight.As fans of the show must know, the participants are subjected t... |
13 October 2010
15:41 GMT |
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In a recent scientific study, researchers established that even obese individuals who have healthy metabolisms might improve their health levels considerably by losing a few pounds. For the purpose of this investigation, a healthy metabolism was considered to exhibit normal levels of cholesterol and blood sugars. In ... |
4 October 2010
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A new study carried out by researchers from St George’s, University of London concluded that children whose families own a dog, are more active and in better physical shape than those without.The research, led by Dr Christopher Owen, senior lecturer in epidemiology at St George’s, was carried out on 2,065... |
21 September 2010
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Not every obese person eats like there is no tomorrow; children exposed to a certain strain of adenovirus are significantly more likely to be obese, found a study carried out by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.The study led by Jeffrey B. Schwimmer, MD, associate professor of clinical pediatrics... |
20 September 2010
06:05 GMT |
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A team of experts has recently determined that children who are bullied over their weight, especially in their preteen years, are highly susceptible of forming a very negative image of themselves and their bodies later on. This in turn opens the door for them to engage in abusive behaviors, such as for examples anore... |
9 September 2010
10:26 GMT |
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A new study suggests that postmenopausal women, diagnosed with cancer, have a higher mortality risk if they are underweight or overweight towards obese, before the diagnosis.Anna E. Prizment, PhD, MPH, a postdoctoral fellow in the division of epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota, Masonic C... |
9 September 2010
08:03 GMT |
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Men's menopause is actually called late-onset hygonadism, and it is rather controversial as it is a very different syndrome than menopause in women.This middle-age event is inevitable in women and lately something very resembling starts to happen to men.There is an increasing number of men that go to the doctor&... |
9 September 2010
06:42 GMT |
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A team of experts has recently been able to produce more data on the correlations that was observed between obesity and infertility in women. According to the new work, it would appear that experts may have previously been mistaken about the causes that led to the two conditions being linked to each other.The new res... |
8 September 2010
06:36 GMT |
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Insufficient nighttime sleep among infants and young children can be associated with a risk of obesity later in life, suggests a new study published in the September issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, adding that napping does not compensate.Janice F. Bell, PhD, MPH, of the University of Washington... |
7 September 2010
04:19 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) say that obesity and diabetes, two conditions tightly linked to each other, are currently still exhibiting a sharp rise in the state.According to the new research paper, it would appear that the majority of adult Americans living in California are eithe... |
1 September 2010
09:46 GMT |
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A newly discovered protein called the “Sprouty” could help improve treatment for two major diseases - obesity and osteoporosis, as well as for other illnesses like diabetes, osteoarthritis and heart disease.For the research, scientists from Maine studied two groups of transgenic (specially bred to have s... |
1 September 2010
02:39 GMT |
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The use of weight loss surgery or bariatric surgery, is ten times more frequent in NHS hospitals in England, than it was in 2000, a new study published on bmj.com finds.A team of researchers from the Imperial College London analyzed national results after surgery on obese patients in the NHS in England.They used the ... |
28 August 2010
06:52 GMT |
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A new study carried out by the University of California, San Francisco, concluded that obesity rates have started declining and stabilizing for many teenagers but there are still some racial and ethnic minorities that have increasing weight problems.Kristine Madsen, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of pediatrics at UC... |
16 August 2010
05:57 GMT |
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In addition to placing a huge strain on the healthcare system, obese individuals also affect the economy indirectly; through the number of days off they need from work. The conclusion belongs to a new study, which indicates that employers may want to check their employees' waistlines more closely. The fatter the... |
3 August 2010
12:01 GMT |
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