Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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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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Monday, February 7, 2011

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

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 09:03 AM 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 09:03 AM 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.

Starting solid foods earlier linked to obesity risk (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 12:33 AM PST

A two-week-old is held by his mother at The Children's Hospital in Aurora, Colorado August 23, 2010 during a research study on obesity in infants. REUTERS/Rick WilkingReuters - Babies raised on formula who start eating solid foods before they are 4 months old may be more likely to become obese than those who start later, suggests a new study.
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Saturday, February 5, 2011

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Obesity Has Nearly Doubled Worldwide Since 1980: Report (HealthDay)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 08:48 PM PST

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that obesity is on the rise worldwide -- it's doubled since 1980 -- but people in the wealthiest nations are managing to reduce their blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
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Friday, February 4, 2011

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Child obesity 'linked to working mothers' (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 06:55 AM PST

A child takes a plate of healthy snacks during a weightloss program for overweight adolescents and children in Aurora, Colorado. The more mothers work during their children's lifetimes, the more likely their kids are to be overweight or obese, according to a US study published in the journal 'Child Development'.(AFP/Getty Images/File/John Moore)AFP - The more mothers work during their children's lifetimes, the more likely their kids are to be overweight or obese, according to a US study published on Friday.

Global obesity rate doubles since 1980: study (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 02:03 AM PST

A doctor treats an obese patient at a Shanghai hospital in 2004. More than half a billion adults are clinically obese in a near-doubling of the numbers of dangerously overweight adults since 1980, doctors have warned.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - More than half a billion adults are clinically obese in a near-doubling of the numbers of dangerously overweight adults since 1980, doctors warned on Friday.

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

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 08:47 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.

Weight-Loss Surgery May 'Remodel' Heart (HealthDay)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 08:47 PM PST

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Besides enabling severely obese people to lose weight, gastric bypass surgery seems to help their overly stressed hearts return to more normal function and appearance, a new study suggests.

Obesity epidemic risks heart disease "tsunami" (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:09 PM PST

Reuters - More than half a billion people, or one in 10 adults worldwide, are obese -- more than double the number in 1980 -- as the obesity epidemic spills over from wealthy into poorer nations, researchers said on Thursday.

Study: Global obesity rates double since 1980 (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:02 PM PST

AP - The world is becoming a heavier place, especially in the West.
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

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

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 09:02 AM 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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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

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FDA declines to approve Orexigen diet drug (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 03:53 PM PST

AP - The government on Tuesday unexpectedly rejected what appeared to be the most promising candidate among a class of new diet drugs, wiping out hopes for a new medication to fight obesity anytime soon.
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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FDA rejects Orexigen's weight-loss drug Contrave (AFP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 06:51 AM PST

The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday declined to approve a weight loss drug by the California pharmaceutical company Orexigen, saying it must conduct more studies to rule out heart risks.(FDA)AFP - The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday declined to approve a weight loss drug by the California pharmaceutical company Orexigen, saying it must conduct more studies to rule out heart risks.

U.S. rejects Orexigen diet drug over heart risks (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 04:54 AM PST

Reuters - U.S. health regulators rejected Orexigen Therapeutics Inc's weight-loss drug and requested a clinical trial to resolve heart safety concerns, dealing a huge blow to what stood to be the first new diet pill in a decade.

Bariatric surgery cuts pounds, adds years (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 01:35 PM PST

Reuters - Obese individuals may add years to their lives by drastically cutting pounds with bariatric surgery, according to a new review of clinical trials of popular gastric bypass and banding procedures.
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