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The National Institutes of Health has established the We Can City Program to assist towns and cities across the nation in mobilizing their communities to prevent childhood overweight and obesity.
Obese and overweight children increase their food intake by more than 100% after watching food advertisements on television.
Gaining too much weight can be as bad for an employer's bottom line as it is for a person's waistline. Obese workers filed twice the number of workers' compensation claims.
As evidence accumulates for an association between obesity and frailty, a dialogue must begin regarding the consequences of rising obesity rates for the aging population.
Individuals suffering from obesity appear more likely to file workers' compensation claims for injuries on the job
Childhood obesity: school playgrounds and athletic facilities can be important tools in the fight against childhood obesity.
Model could lead to the identification of physiological mechanisms that distinguish different types of eating disorders and to the creation of new, targeted drug therapies.
Childhood obesity may be associated with a condition known as otitis media with effusion, which consists of fluid build-up in the middle ear space without symptoms of acute ear infection.
British scientists discover and obesity gene, but it is not alone responsible for the epidemic of obesity and weight gain sweeping the globe.
How calories from fat, carbohydrate, and protein might interact with genes to affect body mass index (BMI), or body weight-for-height, and risk of obesity among adults.
Clarinol CLA reduces fat mass in particular locations on the body, without any additional exercise.
At a time when childhood obesity is rising at an alarming rate, children are now facing one of the most important challenges of their lives: embracing a fit lifestyle that will provide the foundation for a healthy future.
Liposuction and tummy tucks are inappropriate procedures for weight loss and obesity treatment.
An obesity toolkit crammed with practical tips and information is being launched to help people fight the flab and improve their health.
New research discover the role of activity in fighting childhood obesity, as children are getting fatter and that both a poor diet and a lack of exercise are to blame.
New York starts statewide initiative to fight childhood obesity.
The negative effects of obesity on everything from heart disease and diabetes to possible links with cancer.
Weight loss surgery, such as gastric bypass surgery, can lead to a vitamin deficiency that can cause memory loss and confusion, inability to coordinate movement, and other problems.
Rochester study connects common chemicals to rising obesity rates.
Fat in the belly may be an important promoter of inflammation.
Obesity surgery risks include greater chance of heart attack, wound infection, nerve injury and urinary tract infection after the weight loss surgery.
Schools do more to help prevent obesity among children than they do to cause it.
Childhood obesity is linked to puberty in girls as increased body fat in toddlers 'risk early puberty.'
Children snacking in big groups eat almost a third more than when snacking with a couple of kids.
Obese patients tend to have a higher prevalence of total hip replacements due to a higher incidence of hip osteoarthritis.
The European Charter on Counteracting Obesity, the first of its kind in this area, is being launched in Copenhagen.
Children in population-dense regions who live around green parks and lawns may be less likely to be overweight.
The intragastric balloon also significantly raised the risk of stomach ulcers and inflammation.
Obesity study among rural children in Head Start programs discovers that those from families in which English is the second language are at higher risk for being overweight.\n
The fight against obesity in a new series of TV advertisements.
