HealthDay - THURSDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) — Nations with open trade policies
have greater densities of fast food restaurants and higher rates of
obesity than those with more trade controls, a new study has found.

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Reuters - Obese older adults may be more likely than their thinner peers to suffer a potentially disabling fall — though the most severely overweight may be somewhat protected from injury, according to a U.S. study.

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Reuters - Toddlers who have poor relationships with their moms are more likely to pack on extra pounds as they grow up, a new U.S. study shows.

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AP - Sarah Comito rolls out of bed before dawn most days and slips quietly out of her house. Before her rambunctious toddler wakes up, she heads off to work as a waitress in an upscale weight-loss resort in Malibu.

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ContributorNetwork - Children who are breastfed through age 18 months have healthier growth patterns and reduced incidence of diabetes and obesity, says a new study from Denmark. Here are findings from this study about breastfeeding child health benefits and implications for parenting.

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HealthDay - FRIDAY, Dec. 23 (HealthDay News) — Children who are overweight or
obese during early childhood have a greater risk of having asthma at age 8
than normal-weight kids, a new study finds.

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HealthDay - FRIDAY, Dec. 23 (HealthDay News) — Obese people who have had
surgery to treat esophageal cancer are twice as likely to have a
recurrence of the disease or die from cancer within five years as patients
of normal weight, according to a new study.

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Reuters - Obese older adults may be more likely than their thinner peers to suffer a potentially disabling fall — though the most severely obese may be somewhat protected from injury, a new study suggests.

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HealthDay - MONDAY, Dec. 26 (HealthDay News) — Teens are more likely to be obese
if they had a poor emotional relationship with their mother when they were
toddlers, according to a new study.

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HealthDay - THURSDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDay News) — Some weight regain is
common after weight loss, but in older women many of those regained pounds
return as fat mass rather than muscle mass, according to a new study.

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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) — As the obesity epidemic spreads
around the world more people are suffering from acid reflux, likely
increasing the number of those who will develop esophageal cancer, a new
study suggests.

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HealthDay - THURSDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDay News) — Use of gastric bands as a
weight-loss aid is increasing, and doctors need to be alert for potential
complications years later, say the authors of a new case report.

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AP - The Washington state ferry service isn’t going to start turning away hefty passengers, but it has had to reduce the capacity of the nation’s largest ferry system because people have been packing on the pounds.

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ContributorNetwork - Children who are overweight by 8 years old were found to have higher incidence of asthma and allergic sensitivity, according to a study published in the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here are specifics on study findings and how they impact parent decisions.

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HealthDay - MONDAY, Dec. 19 (HealthDay News) — Obese Americans have smaller
paychecks than those who aren’t overweight, and this difference is
especially strong among women, a new study finds.

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AP - Neil Ylanan eats for a living and travels constantly as a food expert for a company that supplies in-flight meals to airlines. Toss in those sleepless, sluggish early years of fatherhood — he’s got three young kids — and he was dealing with significant weight gain.

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Reuters - An Ohio judge ruled on Wednesday that a nine-year-old boy removed from his mother’s house after his weight topped 200 pounds should be transferred from foster care into the custody of his uncle.

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LiveScience.com - A little nibbling between meals may not show up on your waistline, a small study of Norwegian women suggests.

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Reuters - In lush times, orangutans on the island of Borneo gorge themselves on forest fruits, packing on extra pounds in preparation for leaner years, when they live off leaves and bark and their own stored fat.

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AP - A boy removed from his mother’s custody over health concerns when his weight ballooned to more than 200 pounds will be taken from foster care and placed in the custody of an uncle, a judge ruled Wednesday.

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