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A key reason for the epidemic of pediatric obesity, now the most commonly diagnosed childhood ailment, is that high calorie, low fiber Western diets.
The fight against obesity in children just got a new weapon, parents are an important factor in children's rates of obesity.
A UCLA study, published in 2006, suggests our media and cultural obsession with achieving a certain weight loss level does little to convince couch potatoes of any size to abandon their favorite sofa cushions and get active. In fact, those messages may actually undermine motivation to adopt exercise and other healthy lifestyle habits.
Findings may mark a turning point in the treatment of obesity by confirming the effectiveness of immunopharmacotherapy to combat obesity.
The increase of obesity in the United States doubled the number of inconclusive diagnostic imaging exams.
The weight loss medication sibutramine, when combined with behavior therapy, allowed hundreds of very obese adolescents to lose an average of 14 pounds over a year.
Extremely obese patients undergoing gastric bypass procedures may have a greater reduction in obesity related diseases, more weight loss than those who have gastric banding procedures.
The environmental attributes that promote obesity are generally the same in rural communities as those previously found in urban and suburban areas.
Obesity is associated with a 25 percent increase in the risk of developing mood and anxiety disorders and a 25 percent decrease in likeliness for substance abuse.
Health study is first to examine link and cause between obesity and characteristics of small towns.
Obese girls in the early stages of puberty are at risk for having high levels of androgens (sometimes called "male hormones"), a condition that may lead to health problems later.
Expanding definitions of obesity may harm children.
The connection between obesity among the poor and the limited selection of healthy foods in their local grocery stores.
The obesity rates in all Western European countries were lower than obesity in Central and Eastern European countries.
Obesity is under diagnosed in people with diabetes overall and especially in African Americans.
The greater the weight gain, the greater the risk for all types, stages, and grades of breast cancer.
Early treatment of obesity is instrumental in reducing the long term health complications associated with obesity.
Obese and very obese people exhibited only an implicit anti fat bias, not an explicit one.
Culture plays a significant role in how women perceive obesity in terms of both appearance and health.
In order to prevent obesity the brain makes appropriate alterations in food intake and energy expenditure.
Children who are obese when they enter secondary school will very likely leave it obese.
The cause of obesity is not necessarily due to unsafe neighborhoods, but research finds relation between obesity and low levels of neighborhood.
The prevalence of obesity in the U.S. states has been greatly underestimated.
To tackle obesity health professionals need to use more than tape measures and scales.
Each extra Hour of TV translates into 167 extra calories in diet.
The five principal culprits for obesity among children: soft drinks; fast food; television and video games; the inactivity of youngsters both at school and at play; and the changing patterns of family behavior.
Opening door to obesity treatments.
New research suggests obesity is due at least in part to an attraction between leptin, the hormone that signals the brain when to stop eating, and a protein more recently associated with heart disease
Between 1980 and 2002, obesity prevalence doubled in adults aged 20 years or older and overweight prevalence tripled in children and adolescents aged 6 to 19 years.
Those children who were exposed to more than two hours of television per day were more likely to be overweight at ages 36 and 54.
