Fewer fizzy drinks can prevent childhood obesity
...ps. At 12 months, the percentage of overweight and obese children increased in the control group by 7.6% compared with a decrease in the intervention group of 0.2%. "Our intervention was simple, involved no teacher training, and could be easily implemented by a health educator working in several schools," ...Exposure to food increases brain metabolism
...m to obesity, they looked at the brain circuits of obese individuals and found that, like drug addicts, these individuals had fewer dopamine receptors than normal control subjects ( http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2001/bnlpr020101.htm ). In the new study, the scientists looked at how 12 food-deprived, n...Vitamin C reduces level of C-reactive protein, finds UC Berkeley-led study
...d Type 2 diabetics, as well as among overweight or obese persons. They say that scientists have only recent...on. Elevated CRP concentrations have been found in obese people, indicating that obesity is associated with chronic inflammation. The association may help ex...Exercise is key to reversing obesity-related heart risk in children
...agility exercises. After six weeks, overweight and obese children in both groups had significantly reduced their waist-hip ratio, lowered their total cholesterol and increased their endothelium-dependent dilation. Diet and exercise were associated with a significantly greater improvement in endothelial fu...Two-stage weight loss surgery for high-risk, morbidly obese patients reduces surgical risk
...stric bypass surgery, in which high-risk, morbidly obese patients first undergo a procedure called laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG), greatly reduces operative risk and results in significant short-term weight loss, according to a University of Pittsburgh study presented today at the annual meeting of ...ERI patents treatments for insulin resistance in diabetes accompanying obesity
...to the POMC gene. The genetic modifications create obese mice that, surprisingly, do not develop diabetes....Exercise improves cancer survival, reduces cancer risk, scientists say
...ival from several types of cancer among high-risk, obese individuals. The research was presented here toda...ing and the end of the test period. "Among obese women, those with a body mass index of 30 or higher," Ulrich reported, "concentrations of CRP declin...Researchers to pinpoint relationship between obesity-associated diabetes and heart disease
...ing this dangerous progression. Common among all obese people to varying degrees, insulin resistance prev...roughout the body for energy. "Up to 80 percent of obese people compensate for their insulin resistance by oversecreting insulin and therefore don't become d...Childhood obesity leads to adult diabetes, researcher says
...es is from a colleague who reported the case of an obese five-year-old diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, a di...ogether to decrease the number of children who are obese and in danger of becoming diabetic. "An overweight five-year-old with adult-onset diabetes is a ...'Before and after' diet ads promote bias against overweight people
...ter" ad can reinforce negative feelings about the obese and perpetuate damaging stereotypes, according to ...olled, it reinforces the negative stereotypes that obese people are inherently lazy or lack discipline." In the study, 59 people were either exposed to a "b...Data shows new drug, rimonabant, helps smokers quit while limiting post cessation weight gain
...t-cessation weight gain shows that, overweight and obese patients lost weight during the 10-week treatment period, while normal weight smokers did not. There was no change in weight of normal weight smokers treated with rimonabant 20mg vs. a gain of 2 lbs (1kg) on placebo. Overweight smokers on rimonaban...Obesity leads to high blood pressure in the young
...in the 95th percentile or above were classified as obese according to the CDC growth chart. Overweight was...n high blood pressure prevalence was greater among obese children than in children with lower BMIs. Prevalence of high blood pressure increased 4.2 percent ...Metabolic 'footprint' may be new measure of obesity risk in kids
...Adiponectin was an important discriminator between obese and normal-weight children, said Sandra G. Hassink...abetes, we don't know what factors determine which obese people are at greatest risk," said Hassink, who is also director of the Pediatric Weight Management ...Obese children less physically fit
...cant for boys and girls at any age. Boys who were obese had two minutes less treadmill time than non-obese...eart rates at peak exercise were similar among the obese children and normal weight children. "Our results indicate that obese children can be motivated to ...America's teens: Growing up and out
...expected that today's teens would be somewhat more obese but were surprised by the magnitude of the change." The study also showed that total cholesterol and blood pressure, both risk factors for cardiovascular disease, are more strongly correlated with obesity in today's teenagers than in the past, she sa...College education protects Caucasian women against obesity more than African American women
...oportionately represented among the overweight and obese but researchers are not sure whether race, socioec...approximately half of African-American females are obese while about 30 percent of Caucasian females are considered obese. Lewis and her colleagues found tha...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2004 (first issue)
...s up the problems faced by critically ill morbidly obese patients and the serious challenges seen by physic...ifferences in care for the critically ill morbidly obese patients whose mean body mass index exceeds 50. According to the author, the mechanical properties ...Insulin decreases inflammation, aids clot-busting drugs in heart attack patients, UB study shows
...e coronary syndromes." In earlier studies with obese patients, Dandona's research group showed that insulin exerts a significant anti-inflammatory effect on blood vessel walls, and their findings linked insulin with mechanisms that reduce clotting factors. Those findings suggested that insulin might h...Postpartum weight loss classes work
...have a body mass index (BMI) of between 25 and 30; obese women have a BMI of more than 30.) "Obesity has ...identify times when people are at risk of becoming obese and prevent it from happening," O'Toole says. "The postpartum period is a time we know women tend to...Metabolic syndrome, not BMI, predicts future cardiovascular risk in obese women, study finds
...ic syndrome) who were normal weight, overweight or obese had approximately 3.1, 2.6 and 1.9 times higher ad... levels of BMI. Within levels of metabolic status, obese and overweight individuals appeared to have nominally better three-year event-free survival than tho...