Monday, July 18, 2011

Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News

Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News


Pediatrician feels heat over child obesity idea (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 09:02 AM PDT

Reuters - Boston pediatrician David Ludwig, the center of a media firestorm this week, wants to set the record straight on his view that a state should intervene in the most extreme cases of child obesity.

Want to Get Healthy? Try Switching to 'Right' Fats (LiveScience.com)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 06:26 AM PDT

LiveScience.com - While the recommendation to remove fat from your diet was standard medical advice for years, a new review of published studies shows that changing the types of fats you eat will bring better results. The study from researchers at Norwich Medical School in the U.K. looked at 48 studies spanning nearly half a century, and compared the health benefits of low-fat diets, in which saturated fats were replaced with carbohydrates, to the health benefits of what researchers call modified-fat diets, in which saturated fats are replaced with unsaturated fats, such as fish and vegetable oils. ...

Media Jumps to Erroneous Conclusion on Report About Obese Children (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 11:43 AM PDT

ContributorNetwork - On July 13, the Journal of the American Medical Association released its most current online edition. The commentary, "State Intervention in Life-Threatening Childhood Obesity," appears in that edition.

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