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Title: Finding May Allow Some Women to Stop Blood Thinners
Category: Health News
Created: 8/26/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/26/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/26/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/26/2008
Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Alabama 'Obesity Penalty' Stirs Debate
Category: Health News
Created: 8/26/2008
Last Editorial Review: 8/26/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/26/2008
Last Editorial Review: 8/26/2008
Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Summer Slow Cooker Recipes
Category: Health Facts
Created: 6/17/2005
Last Editorial Review: 8/25/2008
Category: Health Facts
Created: 6/17/2005
Last Editorial Review: 8/25/2008
Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Gastric Band Weight-Loss Surgery Can Boost Reflux
Category: Health News
Created: 8/23/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/25/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/23/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/25/2008
Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Kids With Dogs May Become Snorers
Category: Health News
Created: 8/22/2008
Last Editorial Review: 8/22/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/22/2008
Last Editorial Review: 8/22/2008
Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Addiction Drug Causes Rapid Weight Loss in Rats
Category: Health News
Created: 8/21/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/21/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/21/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/21/2008
Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Americans Fatter in 37 States
Category: Health News
Created: 8/20/2008
Last Editorial Review: 8/20/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/20/2008
Last Editorial Review: 8/20/2008
Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Poor Sleep Linked to High Blood Pressure in Teens
Category: Health News
Created: 8/19/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/19/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/19/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/19/2008
Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Ear Infections May Increase Obesity Risk
Category: Health News
Created: 8/18/2008
Last Editorial Review: 8/18/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/18/2008
Last Editorial Review: 8/18/2008
Diet and Weight Management General
Title: The Olympic Diet of Michael Phelps
Category: Health News
Created: 8/14/2008
Last Editorial Review: 8/14/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/14/2008
Last Editorial Review: 8/14/2008
Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Breakfast Eggs Keep Folks on Diet
Category: Health News
Created: 8/13/2008 9:18:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/13/2008
Category: Health News
Created: 8/13/2008 9:18:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/13/2008
Diet and Weight Management General
Title: Postmenopausal Women With Breast Cancer Face Joint Issues
Category: Health News
Created: 8/13/2008 9:18:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 8/13/2008
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Created: 8/13/2008 9:18:00 AM
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Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
According to a study conducted at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, health risk behaviors such as smoking and obesity are associated with lower awareness of the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA), which could lead to a lower likelihood of undergoing actual prostate cancer screening.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
The Alabama State Employees' Insurance Board last week approved a plan that will require state employees who are obese or have health problems to make progress to address those issues or pay a monthly charge for health insurance, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
The first patient in the New York City area received incision free surgery for obesity as part of the ongoing multicenter TOGA Pivotal Trial at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Drs. Marc Bessler and Daniel Davis performed the TOGA Procedure (for "transoral gastroplasty"), which, like other obesity procedures, is designed to alter the patient's stomach anatomy to give them a feeling of fullness after a small meal.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
As the saturation of Americans who are overweight is projected to reach nearly 100 percent by 2040, and with 30 to 40 percent of today's children projected to develop diet-related diabetes in their lifetimes, leading child obesity advocates denounce
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Australian Medical Association President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said that findings in a new report show the obesity epidemic is costing the nation $58 billion a year and confirms that many Australians are suffering significant health problems due to obesity. "This reflects the dollar cost to Australians and the human cost to individuals," she said.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Arkansas lawmakers will focus on health issues, including access to care, emergency care, childhood obesity and Medicaid, in the 87th General Assembly, state Surgeon General Joe Thompson said Wednesday at the second annual Arkansas Health Summit, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Beware of mini-packs and mini-foods, especially if you're a dieter. Chronic dieters tend to consume more calories when foods and packages are smaller, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Authors Maura L. Scott, Stephen M. Nowlis, Naomi Mandel, and Andrea C. Morales (all Arizona State University) examined consumer behavior regarding "mini-packs," 100-calorie food packages that are marketed to help people control calorie intake.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
People at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes might be able to delay or prevent the disease by taking certain food supplements and making lifestyle changes, according to a new book by Dr. James W. Anderson, an internationally recognized authority on metabolic diseases and weight loss and professor emeritus of medicine and clinical nutrition at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Diabetes is a worldwide epidemic, and it is growing at an alarming rate.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
As portion sizes have increased, Americans' waistlines have expanded. And as a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research demonstrates, consumers are tricked into drinking more soft drinks when retailers eliminate small drink sizes. No matter what the volume of the soft drink, customers tend to avoid the largest and smallest options, according to authors Kathryn M. Sharpe, Richard Staelin, and Joel Huber (all Duke University).
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Tempting treats are being offered in small package sizes these days, presumably to help consumers reduce portion sizes. Yet new research in the Journal of Consumer Research found that people actually consume more high-calorie snacks when they are in small packages than large ones. And smaller packages make people more likely to give in to temptation in the first place.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
A new Access Economics Report commissioned by Diabetes Australia has found that 3.71 million Australians are obese with a current estimated cost to the nation of $58 billion. The report titled "Growing economic costs of obesity in 2008" reveals that there has been a 137% increase since 2005 in the number of Australians who have type 2 diabetes as a result of being obese. The total cost of obesity includes $8.3 billion in financial costs and $49.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Research carried out at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England has discovered that obesity in later life does not make a substantial difference to risks of death among older people but that it is a major contributor to increased disability in later life - creating a ticking time bomb for health services in developed countries. The research is published in the August 2008 edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Fast food and coke instead of fruits and vegetables: the consequences can already be seen in children more and more of them suffer from overweight and adiposity. But what are the reasons? In what way are they connected, for example, with social status and body weight of the parents? On the trail of overweight, the health scientist Prof. Dr.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
US scientists testing the epilepsy drug vigabatrin (GVG) as a potential treatment for drug addiction, discovered that it also led to rapid weight loss and reduced food intake in genetically bred obese rats. The discovery by scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, is published in the 20 August advance online issue of the journal Synapse.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Researchers are reporting new evidence of a possible link between a history of moderate to severe middle ear infections in childhood and a tendency to be overweight later in life. Their study suggests that prompt diagnosis and treatment of middle ear infections - one of the most common childhood conditions requiring medical attention - may help fight obesity in some people. The findings were presented at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
A study by researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center has shown that a protein known for its role in inducing bone growth can also help promote the development of brown fat, a "good" fat that helps in the expenditure of energy and plays a role in fighting obesity. "Obesity is occurring at epidemic rates in the U.S. and worldwide and that impacts the risk and prognosis of many diseases," said Yu-Hua Tseng, Ph.D.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Vigabatrin, a medication proposed as a potential treatment for drug addiction by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, also leads to rapid weight loss and reduced food intake according to a new animal study from the same research group. The study was published online August 20, 2008, by the journal Synapse. Vigabatrin is currently undergoing U.S.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Research carried out at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England has discovered that obesity in later life does not make a substantial difference to risks of death among older people but that it is a major contributor to increased disability in later life - creating a ticking time bomb for health services in developed countries. The research is published in the August 2008 edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
A Monash University scientist has discovered key appetite control cells in the human brain degenerate over time, causing increased hunger and potentially weight-gain as we grow older. The research by Dr Zane Andrews, a neuroendocrinologist with Monash University's Department of Physiology, has been published in Nature.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Two teams of researchers have discovered clues to the way mammals make and use white and brown fat cells that could lead to treatments for obesity and weight loss; for instance it could be that boosting brown fat cell production at the expense of white cells could increase the calorie burning as opposed to the calorie storing side of the body's energy balancing system.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Research by scientists at the MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with colleagues at the universities of Bristol, Oxford and Keele, has shown that there is no justification for denying obese patients knee replacement surgery.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
The prevalence of obesity and overweight in the United States coupled by the increased risk of gastrointestinal diseases related to obesity raises serious implications for the health of Americans. Several scientific studies in the August issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology examine the association between obesity and the risk of colorectal cancer and gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD. Dr. Frank K.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Brachytherapy, also called seed implants, may be a more beneficial treatment than surgery or external beam radiation therapy for overweight or obese prostate cancer patients, according to a study published in the August issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today
Adult obesity rates increased in 37 states in the past year, according to the fifth annual F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America, 2008 report (http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2008) from the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
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People who lose weight soon after being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes have better control of their blood pressure and blood glucose levels and are more likely to maintain that control even if they regain their weight, say researchers in America. The study, published online in the journal 'Diabetes Care', followed 2,500 adults with Type 2 diabetes for four years.
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