Reuters - Losing the weight gained during pregnancy is a real struggle for many new mothers. But dropping just 10 pounds between pregnancies may help many women diagnosed with a dangerous complication during the first pregnancy to avoid a recurrence the second time around.

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Reuters - Brazilians’ waistlines are bulging, belying the country’s image as a place of buff sun worshipers and lithe soccer players.

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Reuters - Use of weight-loss surgery has increased 10-fold in hospitals in England since 2000 and those who have gastric bands fitted can reduce their risk of early death and cut health service costs, scientists said on Friday.

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AFP - British health campaigners warned Friday that surgery was being seen as an easy option to tackle obesity after new figures showed weight-loss operations have soared here in the past five years.

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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) — If you think a few weeks
of slothful behavior and caloric overindulgence can be easily worked off
at the gym, think again.

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AFP - Michel Montignac, author of worldwide best-sellers on weight loss in the 1980s and 1990s, has died aged 66, French officials said Thursday.

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HealthDay - TUESDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) — Could drinking one or more
artificially sweetened, carbonated diet sodas a day boost a woman’s odds
of premature delivery? A new study from Denmark suggests such a
link.

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HealthDay - FRIDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDay News) — For people with the metabolic
syndrome — a cluster of risk factors such as obesity, high blood
pressure, high levels of blood fats or triglycerides and high blood
sugar — adding a little fish oil to a diet low in saturated fats and high
in complex carbohydrates might be just the ticket, a new study
suggests.

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HealthDay - MONDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDay News) — Close the diet books and skip
the pills. The latest weight-loss trick may be as simple as gulping a
couple of glasses of water before you eat.

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Reuters - While the extent of obesity among kids overall seems to have peaked, it’s still climbing among African American and Native American girls, new research from California shows.

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Reuters - Adults consider obesity the number one threat to children’s health in the United States and many believe the problem is getting worse, according to a new poll.

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HealthDay - MONDAY, Aug. 16 (HealthDay News) — While some research suggests
that the incidence of childhood obesity may be leveling off, a new study
finds that for certain racial groups the rates may actually be getting
higher.

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HealthDay - MONDAY, Aug. 16 (HealthDay News) — Bariatric weight-loss surgery
in obese people with type 2 diabetes can have an unexpected, yet positive
side effect — nearly 3 out of 4 patients in one study were able to stop
taking their insulin and other diabetes medications within six months of
surgery.

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AP - Obese government workers in South Carolina can get stomach-shrinking surgery through the state health plan under a pilot program that starts in January.

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Reuters - Genetic testing might have helped identify people who would become depressed or suicidal while taking Sanofi-Aventis’ weight loss drug Acomplia, which might have helped keep the drug on the market, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

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Reuters - Three-fourths of obese diabetics who had weight-loss surgery were able to quit taking diabetes drugs within six months of their operation, U.S. researchers said on Monday, citing a new study.

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AP - Dreams of rapid weight loss and fake celebrity endorsements from Oprah Winfrey and Rachael Ray lured customers into providing their credit or debit card numbers as they signed up online for a “free trial” of acai berry pills.

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Reuters - A recent study found that heavier women were less likely to get one type of glaucoma than their thinner peers - the first time this association has been shown, the authors report.

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LiveScience.com - In what could be a first for weight-loss surgery in the United
States, surgeons have removed 80 percent of a stomach through a patient’s mouth.
Previously, surgeons performing stomach-reduction surgery had to make a large
incision in the abdomen to remove the excess stomach.

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Reuters - The larger a pregnant woman is when she checks in on delivery day, the greater her risk of having a cesarean section, suggests a large new study.

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