Thursday, September 30, 2010

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Disney backs Michelle Obama's child obesity campaign (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 09:02 AM PDT

US First Lady Michelle Obama, seen here on September 14. The Walt Disney Company has thrown its weight behind a campaign championed by Obama to push back child obesity.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - The Walt Disney Company on Thursday threw its weight behind a campaign championed by US First Lady Michelle Obama to push back child obesity.


Wednesday, September 29, 2010

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Heightened suicide risk after weight-loss surgery (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:21 PM PDT

Reuters - Severely obese people who undergo weight-loss surgery may have a higher-than-average risk of suicide in the years following the procedure, a new study finds.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

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Q&A: Jackie Warner on Weight Loss and Healthy Eating (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 05:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Celebrity fitness trainer Jackie Warner talks to TIME about her weight-loss regimen, eating healthy and her new Bravo show Thintervention

Three squares may beat mini-meals for weight loss (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 11:19 AM PDT

Reuters - Sitting down to eat a real meal three times a day may be a better strategy for weight loss than grazing on several smaller "mini-meals," new research shows.

Explaining the Gender Gap: Obesity Costs Women a Lot More Than Men (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 07:25 AM PDT

Time.com - Explaining the Gender Gap: Obesity Costs Women a Lot More Than Men

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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Q&A: Jackie Warner on Weight Loss and Healthy Eating (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 07:15 AM PDT

Time.com - Celebrity fitness trainer Jackie Warner talks to TIME about her weight-loss regimen, eating healthy and her new Bravo show Thintervention

Obesity rates remain 'disturbingly high' (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 02:23 PM PDT

Subway commuters walk through the turnstiles while leaving the U.S. Open in New York September 4, 2007. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/FilesReuters - Chances are slim to none that the U.S. will meet its public health goal of sharply reducing the number of obese adults by this year, according to federal health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.


Weight loss drug shows promise in clinical trial (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 10:31 AM PDT

Reuters - An experimental weight loss drug helped obese people lose more than 10 percent of their weight after two years in a clinical trial, but safety details were scant for the drug made by Vivus Inc, which in July was turned down by a panel of U.S. experts.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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Q&A: Jackie Warner on Weight Loss and Healthy Eating (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 07:50 AM PDT

Time.com - Celebrity fitness trainer Jackie Warner talks to TIME about her weight-loss regimen, eating healthy and her new Bravo show Thintervention

Why Americans Are Fat: We Literally See More Food as Less (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 07:45 AM PDT

Time.com - One of the most peculiar findings in obesity research is that exercise -- even if vigorous and regular -- doesn't reliably lead to weight loss.

Stem cells, obesity finding lead Nobel predictions (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:02 AM PDT

A microscopic view of a colony of human embryonic stem cells (light blue) growing on fibroblasts (dark blue). REUTERS/Alan Trounson/California Institute for Regenerative MedicineReuters - Researchers who discovered stem cells and the appetite hormone leptin, who proposed that dark energy is helping the universe expand and who developed "gene chips" are named in the 2010 Thomson Reuters predictions to win Nobel Prizes for medicine, physics and chemistry.


Report: Obesity hurts your wallet and your health (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 12:49 AM PDT

A competitor prepares to go in front of judges at a casting call for obese contestants in New York December 18, 2009. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly/FilesAP - Obesity puts a drag on the wallet as well as health, especially for women.


Obesity and blindness researchers win U.S. Lasker awards (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:28 PM PDT

Reuters - Researchers who discovered a hormone intimately linked to obesity, who found a protein linked to a common form of blindness and who worked on genetic blood diseases won the 2010 Lasker awards on Tuesday.

Prizes honor studies in vision loss, obesity (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:01 PM PDT

AP - Three scientists have won prestigious medical prizes — one for devising a treatment for a major cause of vision loss and two for laying the groundwork for an explosion in obesity research.

Gastric Band Surgery Rising Among Obese Teens (HealthDay)

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 08:48 PM PDT

HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- More overweight teenagers are undergoing laparoscopic gastric band surgery, a weight-loss procedure that isn't approved for anyone under 18 years old, a new study finds.

Childhood Obesity Might Be Linked to Strain of Cold Virus (HealthDay)

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 08:48 PM PDT

HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- At least part of the blame for childhood obesity might be traced to a unexpected cause -- a certain strain of the virus that causes the common cold.

Why White Girls Are Getting More Weight Loss Surgery (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 03:35 AM PDT

Time.com - Why White Girls Are Getting More Weight Loss Surgery

Monday, September 20, 2010

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Gastric Band Surgery Rising Among Obese Teens (HealthDay)

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:02 AM PDT

HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- More overweight teenagers are undergoing laparoscopic gastric band surgery, a weight-loss procedure that isn't approved for anyone under 18 years old, a new study finds.

Childhood Obesity Might Be Linked to Strain of Cold Virus (HealthDay)

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:02 AM PDT

HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- At least part of the blame for childhood obesity might be traced to a unexpected cause -- a certain strain of the virus that causes the common cold.

Kids Exposed to Strain of Cold Virus More Likely to be Obese (LiveScience.com)

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 08:25 AM PDT

LiveScience.com - Children exposed to a particular strain of a common cold virus are more likely to be obese than those not exposed, a new study suggests.

Obese Teens Prefer Gastric Bands over Gastric Bypass (LiveScience.com)

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 05:49 AM PDT

LiveScience.com - Teens undergoing weight-loss surgery in California are increasingly opting for adjustable gastric band procedures instead of stomach-shrinking gastric bypass surgeries, a new study finds.

Q&A: Jackie Warner on Weight Loss and Healthy Eating (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 03:20 AM PDT

Time.com - Celebrity fitness trainer Jackie Warner talks to TIME about her weight-loss regimen, eating healthy and her new Bravo show Thintervention

More teens get unapproved weight-loss surgery (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2010 10:46 PM PDT

Reuters - A type of weight-loss surgery not approved for adolescents is becoming more and more common among teens in California, according to a report published today.

Friday, September 17, 2010

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FDA reviewers don't understand obesity drug: Arena (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 07:17 AM PDT

Reuters - Shares of Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc plunged anew on Friday as the company blamed a lack of understanding on the part of U.S. reviewers for their failure to recommend approval of its experimental obesity drug.

FDA panel says 'no' to experimental diet pill (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2010 02:26 PM PDT

AP - Federal health experts rejected a highly anticipated weight loss pill Thursday that was thought to offer a safer way to shed pounds than older medications linked to dangerous side effects.