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Does the lack of sleep make you fat?
The recent rise in obesity may be partly due to the reduced amount of time we spend asleep, according to new research from the University of Bristol, UK. view more (2004-12-06)
Obesity associated with a lower risk of tuberculosis in older Chinese population
Obese or overweight Chinese individuals age 65 and older have a lower risk of developing tuberculosis than those at a normal weight. view more (2007-06-26)
Researcher predicts paradigm shift in heart disease treatment
As the obesity epidemic grows in the United States, the medical community is faced with the significant challenge of properly treating patients before complications such as heart disease arise. view more (2006-04-28)
Blocking an inter-generational cycle of obesity
Being exposed to high levels of nutrition before birth can influence the development of networks within the brain that regulate appetite to permanently set a pattern of appetite for life, according to researchers from the University of South Australia. view more (2006-11-22)
Sedentary lifestyle in early childhood identified as major risk factor for obesity (pp 182, 211)
Research among young children in Scotland in this week's issue of THE LANCET highlights how the sedentary lifestyle that increases the risk of obesity-common in industrialised countries-can be apparent in children as young as three years of age. Authors of the research and of an accompanying Commentary state that public-health solutions need to be... view more... (2004-01-14)
Monell researchers find metabolic defect in liver that can lead to obesity
Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center have identified a genetically-transmitted metabolic defect that can lead to obesity in some individuals. view more (2007-07-25)
Treating diabetes during pregnancy can break link to childhood obesity
Treating diabetes during pregnancy can break the link between gestational diabetes and childhood obesity, according to a Kaiser Permanente study featured in the September issue of Diabetes Care. view more (2007-08-28)
Study Suggests 86 Percent of Americans Could be Overweight or Obese by 2030
Most adults in the U.S. will be overweight or obese by 2030, with related health care spending projected to be as much as $956.9 billion, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Their results are published... view more... (2008-07-29)
The diabetes epidemic - obesity a major factor
More and more Americans are being diagnosed with diabetes. Is this rise in cases due to better testing, a change in diagnostic criteria, a true rise in incidence, or some combination of these and other factors? view more (2006-04-20)
Stress affects the diet of school children
An examination of the eating behaviour of children suggests that stress is linked to an increase in unhealthy eating patterns. This is the finding of a study reported today, Thursday 5 September, at The British Psychological Society Division of Health Psychology Annual Conference at Sheffield Hallam University, by Martin Cartwright, Jane Wardle,... view more... (2002-09-02)
Sufficient evidence for reducing sugar intake to tackle obesity? (p 1068)
A Viewpoint article in this week's issue of THE LANCET considers the evidence behind a recent WHO/UN report to restrict consumption of free (added) sugars to counteract obesity and concludes: 'when considered in aggregate they [available studies] provide considerable evidence to suggest that sucrose and other free sugars contribute to the global... view more... (2004-03-24)
Ben-Gurion U. researchers identify how stressed fat tissue malfunctions
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers, in a collaboration with colleagues from the University of Leipzig, Germany, have identified a signaling pathway that is operational in intra-abdominal fat, the fat depot that is most strongly tied to obesity-related morbidity. view more (2009-07-15)
Contagious obesity? Identifying the human adenoviruses that may make us fat
Human adenoviruses may cause human obesity, but more research is needed before a screening test and vaccine become reality. view more (2006-01-30)
Infant weight gain linked to childhood obesity
As childhood obesity continues its thirty-year advance from occasional curiosity to cultural epidemic, health care providers are struggling to find out why-and the reasons are many. view more (2009-03-30)
Eliminating soda from school diets does not affect overall consumption
With childhood obesity increasing, school administrators and public health officials are reducing availability of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) in schools. view more (2008-11-10)
University of Alberta researchers report breakthrough in lowering bad cholesterol, fatty acid levels
U of A medical researchers have found a way to reduce the amount of bad cholesterol and fatty acids that end up in the blood from food the body metabolizes, a key discovery that could lead to new drugs to treat and reverse the effects of Type 2 diabetes and heart disease related to obesity. view more (2008-01-10)
Getting people to move — challenges in promoting physical activity
Programs that discourage smoking have been reasonably successful. However, public health programs that encourage physical activity have not. view more (2006-12-20)
Mental barriers hamper obese women's efforts to get exercise
For arachnophobes, it's difficult to kill a spider as it scurries across the floor. Those who are scared to fly might not ever set foot on a plane. While nothing physically stops people with these aversions, a mental barrier can keep them from the task at hand. view more (2008-10-06)
Stress Management Important In Treating Obesity
Obesity has often been related to mental illness. For a majority of obesity patients, mental illness seems to be a consequence of, rather than a cause of, weight problems. This is shown in a new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University in Sweden. The results are from the Swedish SOS Study (Swedish Obese Subjects) in which... view more... (2003-12-12)
Research linking obesity and asthma shows weight reduction may provide therapy for asthma sufferers
Research presented at the American Diabetes Association's Scientific Sessions showed that therapies targeting abdominal fat tissue, such as weight loss, may provide a new approach to treat asthma. view more (2005-06-13)
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