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Urban planning a factor in rising obesity rates, says new report
You may want to buy healthy food for your family, but if the good grocery stores are far away and pricey and the fast-food outlets are cheap and plentiful, it may be harder to make the healthy choice.   view more (2008-03-14)

Aggressive efforts needed to curb maternal obesity
Most women get it - smoking and drinking don't mix with pregnancy, but not so with excess weight before and during pregnancy.    view more (2007-07-13)

Obesity surgery translates to cardiac benefit
As rates of obesity in America continue to soar, surgery has become an increasingly popular solution when diet and exercise regimens fail.   view more (2006-03-14)

Policy Makers Need To Rethink Obesity Message
EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01HRS THURSDAY 6th MAY 2004 Policymakers and health professionals must think about motivation as well as information when they promote the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, according to social psychologist Dr Gregg Maio, who will be addressing a high-level conference on Choosing... view more (2004-05-06)

Brain system serves as 'remote control' for fat metabolism
A system in the brain already known to regulate food intake also serves as a direct "remote control" for the way fat is stored and metabolized in the body, say University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers.   view more (2007-09-21)

Weight control protein may yield antiobesity drugs
A weight control protein with a key role in the brain's ability to monitor body fat content may yield new approaches for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes, according to a new report in the August issue of Cell Metabolism.   view more (2005-08-17)

Overweight and obesity cause 6,000 cancers a year in UK women
The study shows that overweight and obese women in the UK are at a higher risk of developing and dying from cancer. In fact, the researchers estimate that 5% of all cancers (about 6,000 annually) are attributable to being overweight or obese.   view more (2007-11-07)

Revise guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy, says Saint Louis U. obstetrician
Current recommendations for weight gain during pregnancy - developed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1990 - should be revised, according to an internationally recognized obesity expert and chairman of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and women's health at Saint Louis University.   view more (2008-03-12)

New UCSF study finds that obesity is a risk factor for kidney failure
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have determined that there is a strong relationship between being obese and developing end-stage renal disease, or kidney failure.   view more (2006-01-03)

New Joslin Research Identifies Sirtuin Protein Instrumental in Fat Production and Metabolism
A new Joslin Diabetes Center-led study has identified a protein found in fat cells that may play a major role in how fat is produced and stored, offering a new target for treatments to prevent obesity and reduce the risk for type 2 diabetes.   view more (2007-08-16)

Lean for life
Infant formula and other baby foods that provide permanent protection from obesity and diabetes into adulthood could be on shop shelves soon, reports Lisa Melton in Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI.   view more (2007-04-23)

Corner stores capture kids on morning commute
In most cities, the corner store, with its chips, soda and candy, is ubiquitous. Convenient for the neighborhood residents, but also researchers are discovering, a major snack source for school age children.   view more (2008-10-06)

Overweight adolescents projected to have more heart disease in young adulthood
A new study investigating the health effects of being overweight during adolescence projects alarming increases in the rates of heart disease and premature death by the time today's teenagers reach young adulthood.   view more (2007-12-06)

Study Suggests Estrogen Deficiency Can Lead To Obesity-Induced
At menopause, women lose hormone protection against heart (cardiovascular) and kidney (renal) diseases, and are likely to become obese.   view more (2007-08-09)

Body image program reduces onset of obesity and eating disorders
In their research on eating disorders, Oregon Research Institute (ORI) scientists help young women reduce the influence of the "thin ideal," which is described as associating success and happiness with being thin.   view more (2008-04-30)

Obese women disadvantaged in both breast cancer treatment and diagnosis
Obese women with breast cancer have worse disease outcomes and also tend to present to their doctor for the first time with more advanced disease.   view more (2008-04-16)

Study finds obese patients fair better than lean patients when hospitalized for acute heart failure
Researchers report that for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure, a higher body mass index (BMI) was associated with a substantially lower in-hospital mortality rate.   view more (2007-01-10)

U of M study shows fast food as family meals limits healthy food intake, increases obesity risk
Families whose meals frequently consist of fast food are more likely to have unhealthy eating habits, poor access to healthy foods at home, and a higher risk for obesity, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School.   view more (2007-01-09)

Heart disease deaths fall, as obesity and diabetes increase, experts find
Epidemiologists at the University of Liverpool and the Heart of Mersey have found that approximately half the recent fall in coronary heart disease deaths in the US is due to positive life style changes and a further half to medical therapies.   view more (2007-06-08)

New drug target in obesity: Fat cells make lots of melanin
As millions of Americans gear up for the Thanksgiving holiday, a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal, may provide some relief for those leery of having a second helping.   view more (2008-10-30)

Penn study reveals prevalence of night eating syndrome among people with psychiatric conditions
According to a study that appears in the January 1 issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the University of Minnesota found that night eating syndrome is a common disorder among psychiatric outpatients and is associated with... view more (2006-01-03)

Study connects obesity with nervous system
A discovery by Queen's biologists and their students sheds new light on the genetic roots of obesity - a condition that is increasing dramatically in North America and has been linked to heart disease, diabetes and some forms of cancer.   view more (2008-01-24)

Public event highlights lifesaving risk assessment test for Type 2 diabetes
The vital role that screening tests can play in the early identification and treatment of Type 2 diabetes has been highlighted at a public event in Oxford run by DiagnOx, the organisation that aims to increase the commercialisation of UK diagnostics research and BIVDA (the British In-Vitro... view more (2004-03-11)

Cancer survivors have low levels of physical activity and high levels of obesity
A new study reveals that many cancer survivors are inactive and obese, which may negatively affect the control of their disease. The findings, which come from a study of cancer survivors in Canada, show that a cancer diagnosis does not appear to prompt significant behavior change and that... view more (2008-04-21)

The 'temptation factor' - candy on the desk is candy in the mouth, Cornell study of women finds
The study finds that women eat more than twice as many Hershey Kisses when they are in clear containers on their desks than when they are in opaque containers on their desks - but fewer when they are six feet away.   view more (2006-02-16)
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