Archive for September, 2010
AFP - The Walt Disney Company on Thursday threw its weight behind a campaign championed by US First Lady Michelle Obama to push back child obesity.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Reuters - Severely obese people who undergo weight-loss surgery may have a higher-than-average risk of suicide in the years following the procedure, a new study finds.
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Reuters - Chances are slim to none that the U.S. will meet its public health goal of sharply reducing the number of obese adults by this year, according to federal health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Reuters - Sitting down to eat a real meal three times a day may be a better strategy for weight loss than grazing on several smaller “mini-meals,” new research shows.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Time.com - Explaining the Gender Gap: Obesity Costs Women a Lot More Than Men
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Reuters - Researchers who discovered stem cells and the appetite hormone leptin, who proposed that dark energy is helping the universe expand and who developed “gene chips” are named in the 2010 Thomson Reuters predictions to win Nobel Prizes for medicine, physics and chemistry.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)LiveScience.com - Teens undergoing
weight-loss surgery in California are increasingly opting for adjustable
gastric band procedures instead of stomach-shrinking gastric bypass surgeries,
a new study finds.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Reuters - An experimental weight loss drug helped obese people lose more than 10 percent of their weight after two years in a clinical trial, but safety details were scant for the drug made by Vivus Inc, which in July was turned down by a panel of U.S. experts.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Time.com - Why White Girls Are Getting More Weight Loss Surgery
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Reuters - Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc suffered a major setback on Thursday when U.S. advisers rejected its proposed weight-loss pill amid concerns that tumors in rats might indicate a risk of cancer in humans.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Time.com - Celebrity fitness trainer Jackie Warner talks to TIME about her weight-loss regimen, eating healthy and her new Bravo show Thintervention
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Reuters - A type of weight-loss surgery not approved for adolescents is becoming more and more common among teens in California, according to a report published today.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)AP - Three scientists have won prestigious medical prizes — one for devising a treatment for a major cause of vision loss and two for laying the groundwork for an explosion in obesity research.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Reuters - Researchers who discovered a hormone intimately linked to obesity, who found a protein linked to a common form of blindness and who worked on genetic blood diseases won the 2010 Lasker awards on Tuesday.
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AP - Obesity puts a drag on the wallet as well as health, especially for women.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) — At least part of the blame
for childhood obesity might be traced to a unexpected cause — a certain
strain of the virus that causes the common cold.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) — More overweight teenagers
are undergoing laparoscopic gastric band surgery, a weight-loss procedure
that isn’t approved for anyone under 18 years old, a new study finds.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Time.com - One of the most peculiar findings in obesity research is that exercise — even if vigorous and regular — doesn’t reliably lead to weight loss.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)LiveScience.com - Children exposed to a particular strain of a common cold virus are
more likely to be obese than those not exposed, a new study suggests.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Reuters - Shares of Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc plunged anew on Friday as the company blamed a lack of understanding on the part of U.S. reviewers for their failure to recommend approval of its experimental obesity drug.
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