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Metabolic Side Effects Such As Obesity And Diabetes Caused By Antipsychotic Medications published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
In 2008, roughly 14.3 million Americans were taking antipsychotics - typically prescribed for bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or a number of other behavioral disorders - making them among the most prescribed drugs in the U.S...
Assessing The Value Of BMI Screening And Surveillance In Schools published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
The value of routine body mass index (BMI) screening in schools has been a topic of ongoing controversy. An expert Roundtable Discussion in the current issue of Childhood Obesity, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc...
Key Factors In Student Weight - Impoverished Schools, Parent Education published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Attending a financially poor school may have more of an effect on unhealthy adolescent weight than family poverty, according to Penn State sociologists. Poor schools even influence how parental education protects kids from becoming overweight...
People-Pleasers Feel Pressure To Eat When They Believe It Will Help Another Person Feel More Comfortable published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
If you are a people-pleaser who strives to keep your social relationships smooth and comfortable, you might find yourself overeating in certain social situations like Super Bowl watch parties. A new study from Case Western Reserve University found that, hungry or not, some people eat in an attempt to keep others comfortable...
Potatoes Lower Blood Pressure In Those With Obesity And Hypertension Without Increasing Weight published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
The first study to check the effects of eating potatoes on blood pressure in humans has concluded that two small helpings of purple potatoes (Purple Majesty) a day decreases blood pressure by about 4 percent without causing weight gain...
Public Health Burden Could Be Eased By Societal Control Of Sugar published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:00:00 PST
Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide from non-communicable diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer...
Our Dining Partners Influence Our Eating Behavior published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:00:00 PST
Share a meal with someone and you are both likely to mimic each other's behavior and take bites at the same time rather than eating at your own pace, says a study published in the Feb. 2 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. This behavior was found to be more prominent at the beginning of an interaction than at the end...
Obesity-Related Diseases In Adolescents Improves With Bariatric Surgery Within First Two Years published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Today, about one in five children in the United States are obese. That means that in just one generation alone the number of obese kids in this country has quadrupled...
Potential Link Between Daily Consumption Of Diet Soft Drinks And Risk Of Vascular Events published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Individuals who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. This is according to a new study by Hannah Gardener and her colleagues from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and at Columbia University Medical Center...
Shedding Light On Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Gene Mutation Linked To Accumulation Of Fat, Other Lipids In Liver published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
A team of scientists from the University of Utah and the University of California at San Francisco has discovered that the mutation of a gene encoding a ketone body transporter triggers accumulation of fat and other lipids in the livers of zebrafish. This discovery, published in the Feb...
Sugar - Attacking Health Globally published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:00:00 PST
A recent study published in Nature by Robert Lustig, MD, Laura Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH, and Claire Brindis, DPH, and colleges at the University of California, San Francisco, reveals that sugar is as dangerous when over-consumed as tobacco or alcohol, and should be used in moderation...
Lumbar Disc Degeneration More Likely In Overweight And Obese Adults published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
One of the largest studies to investigate lumbar spine disc degeneration found that adults who are overweight or obese were significantly more likely to have disc degeneration than those with a normal body mass index (BMI)...
Giving Birth More Than Once Lead To Weight Gain And Other Problems For Mouse Moms And Male Offspring published
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Women have long bemoaned the fact that as they have more children, their weight gain from pregnancy becomes more difficult to lose. A new study using a mouse model that mimics the human effects of multiparity (giving birth more than once) has found that mouse moms who gave birth four times accrued significantly more fat compared to primiparous females (those giving birth once) of similar age...
What Is Brown Fat? What Is Brown Adipose Tissue? published
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Brown adipose tissue (BAT), also known as brown fat, is one of two types of fat humans and other mammals have - the other type is known as white or yellow fat. Human newborns and hibernating mammals have high levels of brown fat. Brown fat's main function is to generate body heat...
Normal Weight Doctors Discuss Weight Loss With Patients More Often Than Overweight Colleagues published
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:00:00 PST
A national cross-sectional survey of 500 primary care physicians in the US finds their weight may influence obesity diagnosis and care. Among the findings, published earlier this month in the journal Obesity, is the suggestion that doctors whose BMI is in the normal weight range are more likely to to discuss weight loss with patients than overweight or obese colleagues...
Weight Of Physician May Influence Obesity Diagnosis And Care published
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
A patient's body mass index (BMI) may not be the only factor at play when a physician diagnoses a patient as obese. According to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the diagnosis could also depend on the weight of your physician...
Sedentary Lifestyle A Problem For 2 In 5 Adults With Rheumatoid Arthritis published
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
A new study, funded by a grant from the National Institute for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), found that two in five adults (42%) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were inactive...
Rise In Heart Disease Prevalence In The Gulf States Linked To Rapid Urbanisation As Well As Cultural Habits published
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
While the rapid improvement in socio-economic conditions is thought responsible for the high rates of cardiovascular disease in the Gulf states, deep-rooted cultural factors also play a part. "We're sitting on a time bomb," says Professor Hani Najm, Vice-President of the Saudi Heart Association, whose annual conference begins Friday 27 January...
Appetite Accomplice: Ghrelin Receptor Alters Dopamine Signaling published
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
New research reveals a fascinating and unexpected molecular partnership within the brain neurons that regulate appetite. The study, published by Cell Press in the January 26 issue of the journal Neuron, resolves a paradox regarding a receptor without its hormone and may lead to more specific therapeutic interventions for obesity and disorders of dopamine signaling...
Studying The Causes Of Obesity In Aboriginal Children published
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
To fully understand the causes of the obesity epidemic in Aboriginal children requires an understanding of the unique social and historical factors that shape the Aboriginal community...
Patients With Diabetes Benefit From Lifestyle Counseling In Primary Care Setting published
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Lifestyle counseling, practiced as part of routine care for people with diabetes, helps people more quickly lower blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels and keep them under control, according to a large, long-term study published in the February issue of Diabetes Care...
Raised Cardiovascular Risk For Adolescents Consuming Large Amounts Of Fructose published
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Evidence of cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk is present in the blood of adolescents who consume a lot of fructose, a scenario that worsens in the face of excess belly fat, researchers report...
Brown Fat - Keeps You Warm And Keeps You Slim published
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:00:00 PST
People with more brown fat seem better able to stay warm when it is cold, Canadian researchers reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. They added that the findings of their study could eventually be used to find ways of fighting obesity. Not much has been known about brown fat, a type of good fat, until recently...
Brown Fat Burns Calories In Adult Humans published
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
Brown adipose tissue (often known as brown fat) is a specialized tissue that burns calories to generate body heat in rodents and newborn humans, neither of which shiver. Recently, adult humans have also been found to possess brown fat...
Prader-Willi Syndrome - Challenge To Stop Over-Eating In Children published
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:00:00 PST
A Challenge to find new research methods for hyperphagia, or unregulated appetite, a condition prevalent in children with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) - a genetic disorder of chromosome 15, has been announced by InnoCentive. Inc., and the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research. Around 6,500 children are born with the genetic disorder each year...
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