HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) — Gastric bypass surgery
has been known to improve blood sugar control, often sending people with
type 2 diabetes into remission, but experts have long wondered exactly how
that happens.

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HealthDay - THURSDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) — Rising rates of obesity
among the 50 million Americans with arthritis are cause for concern
because excess weight is associated with increased problems for arthritis
patients, a new study says.

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Reuters - Weight loss surgery appears to change the body’s metabolism in a way that dieting alone cannot, helping to explain why diabetes often disappears after the surgery even before much weight is lost, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

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HealthDay - THURSDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) — Men who are both obese and
tall face a much higher risk for developing potentially fatal blood clots,
though overall the risk remains quite small, according to a new study.

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HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) — Severely obese teens are no
more likely to be depressed than their normal weight peers, new research
suggests.

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HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) — Neither vitamin E nor the
diabetes medication metformin worked any better than a placebo in treating
fatty liver disease in children, according to new research.

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AFP - An expectant mother’s diet during pregnancy can alter her baby’s DNA in the womb, increasing its risk of obesity, heart disease and diabetes in later life, an international study has found.

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Reuters - More than 80,000 Britons claim payments for long-term sick leave because of obesity or drug or alcohol addiction, contributing to a 7 billion pound annual bill for Incapacity Benefit, the government said on Thursday.

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HealthDay - MONDAY, April 18 (HealthDay News) — Rapid weight loss in the days
before a wrestling match can increase confusion but has no effect on
strength, a new study finds.

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Time.com - A study that finds that people may actually eat more after seeing overweight people

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Reuters - More than 80,000 Britons claim payments for long-term sick leave because of obesity or drug or alcohol addiction, contributing to a 7 billion pound annual bill for Incapacity Benefit, the government said on Thursday.

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Time.com - According to a new study, dieters actually tend to make snap judgments about the healthfulness of food based solely on its label, instead of its ingredients

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AP - Schools across Malaysia are giving students another reason to dread their report cards by grading them on their weight.

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AFP - Kidney failure is a main complication of diabetes, but a lab study on mice showed that a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet could reverse that in eight weeks, US researchers said Wednesday.

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ContributorNetwork - Like most things to do with the upcoming British royal wedding, the speculation that bride-to-be Kate Middleton may be a proponent of the Dukan Diet has catapulted it to the forefront of the media’s attention. The buzz started in earnest this past week when Middleton’s mother, Carole, reportedly admitted that she had tried the diet, leading others to conclude that Kate’s recent weight loss may be due to the plan as well. The palace has denied the rumors.

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AFP - US regulators on Tuesday announced a crackdown on websites that sell acai berry weight loss products using fake endorsements from news sites such as CNN, Fox News and USA Today.

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AFP - Indian housewife Sujata Budarapu was shocked when she was told that her two sons were on the verge of developing Type 2 diabetes.

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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) — While the rate of
stillbirths in the United States has dropped over the past few decades,
this tragic outcome is still a reality for far too many couples, experts
say.

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LiveScience.com - A combination of two drugs —  along with advice regarding healthy diet and exercise — may be an effective treatment for obesity, a new study suggests.

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AFP - On Tonga’s supermarket shelves, huge cans of corned beef the size of paint tins replaced traditional fare such as fish and coconuts long ago — contributing to an obesity epidemic that sees the Pacific region ranked as the fattest in the world.

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