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Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Moderate Drinking Linked to Weight Control
Category: Health News
Created: 3/9/2010 9:46:00 AM
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Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Diet, Exercise Can Improve Thinking
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Created: 3/8/2010 4:10:00 PM
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Created: 3/8/2010 4:10:00 PM
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Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Colorado, California Cities Dominate Slimmest Cities List
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Created: 3/8/2010 11:48:00 AM
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Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Breastfeeding Helps Mom Stay Slimmer Later in Life
Category: Health News
Created: 3/5/2010 8:10:00 PM
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Created: 3/5/2010 8:10:00 PM
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Diet and Weight Management General
Title: A Cheek Swab to Choose Your Diet Plan?
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Created: 3/3/2010 4:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 3/4/2010
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Created: 3/3/2010 4:10:00 PM
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Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Kids Snacking Too Much
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Created: 3/3/2010 9:19:00 AM
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Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Workplace Wellness Programs Work
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Created: 3/2/2010 8:10:00 PM
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Title: Low-Fat Diet Tops Low-Carb in Long Run
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Created: 3/2/2010 10:30:00 AM
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Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Obesity and Depression: A Vicious Circle?
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Created: 3/1/2010 4:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 3/2/2010
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Created: 3/1/2010 4:10:00 PM
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Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Hormone Outperforms Insulin in Diabetic Mice
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Created: 3/1/2010 4:10:00 PM
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Created: 3/1/2010 4:10:00 PM
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Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Belly Fat Is Culprit in Stroke Gender Gap
Category: Health News
Created: 2/26/2010 9:57:00 AM
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Created: 2/26/2010 9:57:00 AM
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Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Obesity, Lack of Exercise Heighten Arthritis Risk for Women
Category: Health News
Created: 2/25/2010 12:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 2/26/2010
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Created: 2/25/2010 12:10:00 PM
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Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Normal-weight women who drink a light to moderate amount of alcohol appear to gain less weight and have a lower risk of becoming overweight and obese than non-drinkers, according to a report in the March 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. More than half of American adults drink alcoholic beverages, according to background information in the article...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" Campaign tells us that about 32 percent of children and teens (or 25 million) are obese or overweight. It revealed those extra pounds put them at greater risk of developing debilitating and costly diseases including diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol and may also cause them to lead a two to five year shorter life than their parents...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
In response to the Department of Health's 'Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives Strategy Two Years On' (1) report looking at the Government's progress on tackling rising levels of obesity in children and adults, Peter Hollins, Chief Executive for the British Heart Foundation (BHF) says: "Unfortunately childhood obesity levels in England remain far too high and it is too early to ...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
It's long been known that obesity is linked to increased risk of developing colon cancer, but now researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Minnesota have found that obesity is associated with worse outcomes in patients who have already been diagnosed and treated for the cancer...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
A recent Kansas State University study found that the availability of supermarkets -- rather than the lack of them -- increased the risk of obesity for low-income women living in small cities. This suggests that policies to increase healthful eating behaviors might need to be tailored based on geographic location...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Obese patients with colon cancer are at greater risk for death or recurrent disease compared to those who are within a normal weight range, according to a report in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Americans recognize things need to change in the grocery aisle, and they support Uncle Sam's efforts to overhaul what is included in their food and on the packages. The majority also believe they are individually responsible for making the right food choices to avoid obesity, but will readily accept the government's help to be successful, according to a new survey by FoodMinds...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Under a $7.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Rush University Medical Center is developing a novel program, called WISHFIT, to help pre-menopausal women reduce visceral fat through a sustained increase in physical activity and reduction in stress...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
The collection of symptoms that is the metabolic syndrome - insulin resistance, high cholesterol, fatty liver, and a greater risk for diabetes, heart disease, and stroke - are all related to obesity, but, according to a review in the March 9th issue of the Cell Press publication Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, not in the way you probably think they are...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
A new study from the US found that normal weight women in their 40s and older who drank a light to moderate amount of alcohol gained less weight and had a lower risk of becoming obese and overweight compared to their non-drinking counterparts...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
A new study that followed participants for 20 years shows both weight and risk for diabetes decreased for people in communities where fast food prices increased. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study, published in the March 8, 2010, issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, also showed the reverse when fast food prices fell, then consumption, weight and diabetes risks rose...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
The health risk factors of obesity and overweight in Alabamians will be the focus of a combined satellite conference and webcast March 17 from 2-3 p.m. central time. Excessive weight and obesity are major risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, the No. 1 cause of death worldwide...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
During the school day, children eat roughly one-third of their nutritional needs while at school. Besides lunch, breakfast and snacks may be served, providing ample opportunities for obesity-prevention strategies by offering more nutritious food...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Health Affairs this month is devoted to the topic of childhood obesity, with the first study of the group - National, State, And Local Disparities In Childhood Obesity - pointing out that "new data from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health show that the percentage of children ages 10-17 who are overweight ...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
There's an epidemic in progress, and it has nothing to do with the flu. A ground-breaking study published in the March 2010 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found an astonishing 59 per cent of study subjects had too little Vitamin D in their blood. Nearly a quarter of the group had serious deficiencies (less than 20 ng/ml) of this important vitamin...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
The increased risk of colorectal cancer associated with obesity may be largely restricted to tumors that have no or low microsatellite instability (MSI), a common condition in most colorectal cancers, according to a new study published online March 8 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
More Americans now drink sugar-sweetened sodas, sport drinks and fruit drinks daily, and this increase in consumption has led to more diabetes and heart disease over the past decade, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's 50th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Increased appetite and insulin resistance can be transferred from one mouse to another via intestinal bacteria, according to research being published online this week by Science magazine...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
ReShape Medical?, Inc. announced that it has initiated a U.S. Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) clinical study to assess the safety and effectiveness of its non-surgical, dual-balloon device for weight loss. The ReShape Balloons are designed to be a treatment for the millions who want support with weight loss, without the invasiveness of surgery...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the first in a series of web videos and public service announcements to promote First Lady Michelle Obama's national initiative, Let's Move, to solve childhood obesity within a generation. Childhood obesity and excess weight threatens the healthy future of one third of American children. As a member of the U.S...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
With obesity and obesity-related diseases epidemic in the developed world, a clear understanding of how metabolism is regulated is crucial. One of the key metabolic pathways involves the oxidation of fat...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
People who have gastric band surgery to lose weight are at risk of low self-esteem, relationship problems and being dissatisfied with their body image, according to new research being presented at the Diabetes UK Annual Professional Conference (APC)...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Before developing specific anti-obesity strategies, lawmakers and advocates should review the evidence on program effectiveness and costs in order to avoid policies that either won't work or will waste money, says Cornell economist John Cawley, in "The Economics of Childhood Obesity," published in the peer-reviewed journal Health Affairs, March 2, 2010...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Interleukin Genetics, Inc. (NYSE Amex: ILI) announced presentation of findings from a retrospective clinical study on weight management conducted in collaboration with Stanford University...
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Innovative, kid-friendly strategies for losing weight and gaining nutrition savvy-plus physical fitness skills-are emerging from scientific studies funded by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). For example, investigators Craig A. Johnston, John P...
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