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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lifestyle Changes Effective Against Child Obesity
Obese children and teenagers can lose significant weight through lifestyle changes that are occasionally paired with medication, a Dutch team has found in reviewing 64 randomized, controlled studies from five continents. Click here for more information on Weight Loss.
Exercise Shields Blood Vessels From Fatty Meals' Influence
If you exercise vigorously before eating a fatty meal, your arteries will likely still be able to dilate normally in response to the body's requirement for increased blood flow, a recent study has found. Click here for more information on Weight Loss.
Intestinal Chemical May Suppress Appetite, Fight Obesity
A biochemical produced by the small intestine every time we eat a fatty meal and which signals the brain to suppress appetite may be the answer to the obesity epidemic, a recent study suggests. Click here for more information on Weight Loss.
Diet Soda: Doorway to Weight Gain
Diet soda isn't the silver bullet to weight loss it's often made out to be. Nor does it prevent weight gain. In fact, drinking diet soda is strongly correlated with overweight and obesity. Click here for more information on Weight Loss.
Weight-Loss Surgery Helps Obese Moms' Pregnancies, Newborns
Women who underwent dramatic weight loss after bariatric surgery had fewer pregnancy and delivery problems and fewer newborn complications than obese pregnant mothers, according to a recent study. Click for More Information on Obesity Surgery.
"Extreme Makeover" Cosmetic Surgery
In this Age of Obesity, more and more people are opting for multiple cosmetic surgery procedures in one sitting. Click for More Information on Obesity Surgery.
Healthy Breakfast a Predictor of Lower Weight
People who ate a healthy breakfast were found generally to weigh less than their counterparts who either ate a high-calorie, fatty meal or skipped it altogether. Click here for more information on Weight Loss.
Exercise Improves Outcome of Bariatric Surgery
Patients who incorporated regular physical activity into their lives after bariatric surgery lost more weight and had better general health and vitality and less depression and anxiety than those who were inactive, a recent study shows. Click for More Information on Obesity Surgery.
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