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• World War II veteran finds soul mate at 99

  Gilbert Herrick was just waiting for the right woman to settle down with. At age 99, he has finally found her. Published June 27 2011 · Comment

• Heart Disease Risk Increases Among Overweight Preschoolers

  In a worrisome development in light of America's epidemic of childhood obesity, a recent study revealed that cardiovascular risk factors increase in children as young as three who are overweight or obese. Published May 27 2009 · Comment

• Saliva Test May Someday Replace Diabetes Blood Test

  There are 65 proteins that can be found at levels twice as great in the saliva of diabetics as in that of healthy people, a recent study found. Click here for more information on Weight Loss. Published May 27 2009 · Comment

• Knowledge of Fat-Making Complex Could Fight Obesity

  In an advance that has implications for new anti-obesity and anti-cancer drugs, a "movie" has been made of how a molecular complex in the human cell performs a "dance" in which it dramatically changes shape to promote all of the stages of fat synthesis. Click here for more information on Weight Loss. Published March 24 2009 · Comment

• Growth Hormone Aids Healthier Obesity Weight Loss

  Administering growth hormone to obese women as they diet and exercise after undergoing bariatric surgery helps them lose more fat-tissue weight and retain more lean-muscle-mass weight, a recent report showed. Click here for more information on Weight Loss. Published March 16 2009 · Comment

• More Exercise Induces Women to Eat Treats

  Overweight women who engaged in exercise for one to two hours a week lost several pounds over six months without dieting. But paradoxically, those who exercised even more - three hours a week - failed to lose as much as expected. Click here for more information on Weight Loss. Published March 2 2009 · Comment

• Fatty-Liver Disease Retreats With Weight Loss

  If patients lose 9 percent of their body weight, a dangerous condition of the liver can be reversed, a recent study has shown. Click here for more information on Weight Loss. Published February 27 2009 · Comment

• Viruses Being Used to Fight Cancer

  It's common knowledge that viruses make us sick. But a new, counterintuitive logic is coming into play in the war on cancer, namely, that viruses can also make us well. Click here for more information on Weight Loss. Published February 23 2009 · Comment

• Weight-Loss Surgery Cures Teen Diabetes

  When stomach-stapling surgery is performed on obese adolescents, they usually experience immediate and complete relief from health-imperiling type 2 diabetes, a recent study has showed. Click here for more information on Weight Loss. Published February 23 2009 · Comment

• Equal Access to Fertility Treatment Urged for Obese

  Overweight and obese women have the same chance of having a baby through in vitro fertilization (IVF) as normal-weight women, according to a recent study, and therefore shouldn't be discriminated against at fertility clinics. Click here for more information on Weight Loss. Published February 18 2009 · Comment

• For Obese, Losing a Little Helps a Lot

  If obese people lose even a moderate amount of weight, their risk of developing serious health problems, especially heart disease, is dramatically lowered, according to a recent study. Click here for more information on Weight Loss. Published February 9 2009 · Comment

• Morbidly Obese Seen as Huge Future Hospital Burden

  Morbidly obese Americans, whose numbers are rising rapidly today and whose average hospital expenses far outstrip other people's, are likely to become a terrible drain on hospital resources in the near future, a recent study showed. Click here for more information on Weight Loss. Published February 5 2009 · Comment

• MRI Excellent in Investigating Back Pain

  Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is becoming more and more useful to doctors in identifying the multiple possible causes of back pain, according to a recent evaluation of the technology from an orthopedic perspective. Published January 29 2009 · Comment

• Bariatric Surgery Patients Lead Comparatively Unhealthy Lifestyle

  Patients who have undergone weight-loss surgery, even though they may have lost 100 pounds or more, engaged in poorer eating and exercise habits compared with obese people who lost the same amount of weight through diet and exercise, a recent study has found. Click here for more information on Weight Loss. Published January 29 2009 · Comment

• Fast Eating Increases Fatness

  Wolfing your food and at the same time eating until you feel full cause a near tripling of the risk of being overweight, according to a recent study from Japan's Osaka University. Click here for more information on Weight Loss. Published January 27 2009 · Comment