HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) — While rates of obesity are
climbing across America, they are especially high in sections of
Appalachia and the Southeast, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention reports in its first county-by-county survey.

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Reuters - A woman’s risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) during her lifetime is doubled if she was obese at age 18, new research shows.

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Reuters - Toddlers and obese children suffer far greater blood-vessel damage and other harm from secondhand smoke than other children, which could put them on the path to heart disease later in life, according to a new study.

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Reuters - Low-carb and high-carb diets work equally well for maintaining weight loss, Australian researchers report.

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AP - The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) — Surging obesity rates,
especially among children, may be putting the brakes on progress made in
the past few decades against heart disease, researchers report.

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AP - Authorities say a severely overweight South Carolina man stayed in his recliner without moving for eight months until shortly before his death.

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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) — Secondhand smoke harms the
cardiovascular health of children, especially toddlers and obese
youngsters, U.S. researchers say.

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LiveScience.com - Some obese individuals don’t realize they have a weight problem, a new study finds. That could be an unhealthy attitude as these same people tend not to exercise and have many risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

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Reuters - Fasting every other day can help obese people lose weight, a small study hints.

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Time.com - Diet, exercise and genes aren’t the only factors responsible for body weight, say researchers, who are discovering evidence of another component: the bacteria in your gut

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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) — Eating a Westernized diet
with lots of sugar and carbohydrates caused almost instantaneous changes
in the gut flora of mice — changes that caused the mice to become obese,
researchers have found.

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Time.com - New data from a long-term survey suggests that U.S. teens are no less active today than they were in 1991. Yet they’ve gotten increasingly heavier over the same period

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HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) — While there are plenty of good
reasons to avoid obesity in your teens, a new study now suggests that
extra weight in adolescence may increase your risk of multiple sclerosis
(MS) later.

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HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) — Obesity is a major risk factor
for left atrial enlargement, which increases the risk of atrial
fibrillation, stroke and death, a new study shows.

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Reuters - Most U.S. teenagers are not as active as they should be, but a lack of exercise does not seem to account for rising rates of teen obesity, a new study finds.

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HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) — Both a high-fat,
low-carbohydrate diet such as the popular Atkins program and a low-fat,
high-carb diet appear to help people lose pounds over the course of a
year.

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AFP - Obesity causes more than 100,000 incidents of cancer in the US every year, the American Institute for Cancer Research said in estimates published Friday.

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Reuters - Obesity causes more than 100,000 cases of cancer in the United States each year — and the number will likely rise as Americans get fatter, researchers said on Thursday.

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Reuters - Obesity causes more than 100,000 cases of cancer in the United States each year — and the number will likely rise as Americans get fatter, researchers said on Thursday.

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