Doctors survey hospital food, reveal current trends
...free foods that can help people maintain a healthy weight and prevent heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers. While there are some promising trends, such as the wide availability of whole-grain products and fresh fruit, there is an urgent need for improvement. The survey reveals that fewer than one-third...Public patients denied effective obesity treatment
...enied access to one of the most effective forms of weight loss treatment Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric B...tment, he says. "This is the only proven method of weight loss for severely obese patients, and yet it is not available to those who need it most," he says. "...Hopkins experts highlight strategies to raise levels of so-called good HDL cholesterol
...exercise, ceased smoking, assumed control over his weight as measured by body mass index, limited alcohol in...with the researchers noting that every kilogram of weight lost raises a patient's HDL levels by an average 0.35 milligrams per deciliter. A reasonable weight...New nutritional challenges emerge for HIV care providers
...poorly-functioning digestive tracts and minimizing weight loss. "The newer medications keep patients healthi...l, so we are not dealing with quite as much severe weight loss," says Tang. "Now we are able to concentrate more on determining the vitamin and mineral ('micr...BIDMC investigators receive award to study pathways responsible for obesity, type 2 diabetes
...tigations of the brain pathways that regulate body weight and glucose metabolism, and the role they play in ...te the hormones and brain pathways regulating body weight and glucose metabolism; this funding will enable us to move one step closer to the goal of advancing...Study to examine the effects of synthetic steroids
...oping high blood pressure, diabetes, and excessive weight gain as they grow older. "We think a study of this type will identify some of the causes underlying these problems and point to prevention strategies such as changes in lifestyle, diet and physical activity to more effectively treat these problems," ...Rutgers-Newark psychology researchers reveal link between body and action perception
...ed in tasks that tested their ability to gauge the weight of boxes which were lifted by other individuals and their ability to infer weight expectations of the observed individuals. Their performance was compared against a control group com...'Healthy weight, healthy shape' key in preventing heart disease
...of cardiovascular disease (CVD), controlling one's weight through healthy eating and regular exercise can di... the ESC uncovered various results with respect to weight control and exercise and CVD. According to one study revealed during the ESC Congress by Professor ...Loss of body mass linked to development of Alzheimer's disease
..."People with Alzheimer's disease are known to lose weight and body mass after they have the disease," says D...of body composition that is calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters squared. They completed an average of 6.6 annual evaluations, with ...NASH clinical research network launches trial for treatment of liver disease in children
...izing drug), or placebo over 2 years. There are no weight cut-offs or percentiles for the children participa...n also occur in adults and children who are normal weight without diabetes. Although there seems to be an association between obesity and liver injury, curren...Research offers new approach to developing treatments for cocaine and amphetamine addiction
...echanism by which cocaine and amphetamine decrease weight remains unknown, but CART peptides may have a role here as well. Future studies are needed to investigate the role of CART peptides in eating and obesity. These findings point to a novel target for treating stimulant drug addiction. Selective drugs ...PRESERVE- 2-year study of initial combo therapy with nateglinide or glyburide + metformin
...ved that treatment with Starlix plus metformin was weight neutral, while participants in the glyburide/metfo...tarlix plus metformin treatment did not experience weight gain, while study participants receiving glyburide/metformin gained about 1 kg. Highly significant r...New blood transplant method stops fatal side effect, Stanford study finds
... of the eyes and mouth, skin rashes, stiff joints, weight loss caused by intestinal scarring, and more infec...rovement following transplantation. "I was gaining weight and getting my energy level back," he said, "but I thought the only way to know for sure was to test...Nerve changes from diabetes begin earlier than previously known
...rected for variations in patients' age, height and weight that could have affected results. The study focused especially on 90 patients who at first evaluation did not have nerve damage and who had been evaluated at least six times at annual or biannual intervals. The Mayo investigators then tested which m......rising that almost half said they've tried to lose weight sometime in the past five years. "The members of the faculty that answered our survey seem to eat a little less, and to weigh a little less, than most people their age in the U.S.," said Dr. Anthony Komaroff, Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Health Let...Chromium picolinate linked with reduced carbohydrate cravings in people with atypical depression
...toms in depressed patients. Carbohydrate cravings, weight gain and unexplained fatigue are characteristic symptoms of atypical depression, a common but frequently undiagnosed depressive disorder affecting up to 42 percent of the 19 million Americans diagnosed with depression. "These results suggest that th...Strategy to tackle obesity still evading health services
... cause of illness and premature death. Excess body weight is the sixth most important risk factor contributing to the overall burden of disease worldwide and 1.1billion adults and 10% of children are now classified as obese. Despite these figures, neither the medical management nor the societal preventive c...Obesity, history of weight gain could help predict prostate cancer progression
...ed with prostate cancer, as well as his history of weight gain, appear to play significant roles in how aggr...M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. While a link between weight and initial development of prostate cancer already has been made, this report, published in the Oct....High fat diet alters hepatic immune system in mice
...e mice on high fat diets gained significantly more weight than the mice on normal diets, and they also developed fatty livers. Their hepatic mononuclear cells revealed significantly fewer hepatic CD4+ NKT cells. Subsequent tests revealed doubled production of IL-12, a cytokine that reduces NKT cell viabilit...Special issue on cystic fibrosis in The Journal of Pediatrics
...and 290,059 non-affected children. The mean birth weight of the newborns with cystic fibrosis was 246g lower than the mean birth weight of the non-affected population. The children with cystic fibrosis also had a higher risk of being p...