Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News

Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News

Charting anti-obesity progress (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 07:48 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2010 file photo, first lady Michelle Obama runs a 40-yard sprint as she participates in the Let's Move! Campaign and the NFL's Play 60 Campaign festivities with area youth, to promote exercise and fight childhood obesity, in New Orleans. Michelle Obama had doubts about making a campaign against childhood obesity one of her signature issues.“I wondered to myself whether we could really make a difference, because when you take on a problem this big and this complicated, at times it can be a little overwhelming,” she said in a recent speech. The anti-obesity campaign Mrs. Obama calls “Let’s Move!” celebrates its first anniversary Wednesday. Is it making a difference? (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)AP - Michelle Obama had doubts about making a campaign against childhood obesity one of her signature issues.

Giving Baby Solid Foods Too Early Linked to Obesity Later (HealthDay)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 08:48 PM PST

HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Babies who were formula-fed and introduced to solid foods before they were 4 months old were more likely to be obese when they were 3, researchers report.

Kids' Rising Obesity Rates Due to Bad Habits, Not Genes: Study (HealthDay)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 08:48 PM PST

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Poor eating and activity habits, not genetics, are the underlying causes for most cases of adolescent obesity, new research suggests.
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