 | | | | Weight Management Headlines | | | (The New York Times News Service) -- Dear Healthy Professor: Which is worse; too much sugar or too much fat?
DAYTON, Ohio (The New York Times News Service) -- Even if you are doing your best to exercise and watch what you eat, it's still possible to reach a point where weight loss slows down or even stops altogether. In order to avoid a plateau, don't forget to decrease the amount of calories you are consuming as your body weight decreases.
SAN FRANCISCO (The New York Times News Service) -- Dr. Barry Franklin, a Michigan-based cardiologist, is a widely respected expert on nutrition and exercise and a prominent member of the American Heart Association -- and he's a pretty trim and fit guy, to boot.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Germs in the gut may help drive appetite, says new research into the link between obesity and bacteria.
Diet not working? Blame your genes. That's the pitch behind a new test that claims to show whether people will do better on a low-fat or a low-carb weight loss plan.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Germs in the gut may help drive appetite, says new research into the link between obesity and bacteria.
WASHINGTON - What if you could be fat but avoid heart disease or diabetes? Scientists trying to break the fat-and-disease link increasingly say inflammation is the key.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- What if you could be fat but avoid heart disease or diabetes? Scientists trying to break the fat-and-disease link increasingly say inflammation is the key.
CHICAGO (AP) -- The odds of obesity appear stacked against black and Hispanic children starting even before birth, provocative new research suggests.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- For post-communist Romanians a Big Mac and soda meant much more than a meal: It was a culinary signpost from the free and capitalist west -- a sign they too, at last, had arrived.
WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) -- Her daughters were 6 and 9, and Michelle Obama was like any other working mom -- struggling to juggle office hours, school pick-ups and mealtimes. By the end of the day, she was often too tired to make dinner, so she did what was easy: She ordered takeout or went to the drive-through.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Every year, about 250,000 people in the United States undergo surgery to lose weight, paying or having their insurance companies pay tens of thousands of dollars for procedures that essentially restrict how much food they can take in.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Paris Woods is hardly a poster child for the obesity epidemic. Lining up dripping wet with kids on her swim team, she's a blend of girlish chunkiness and womanly curves.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama framed her national campaign against childhood obesity in intensely personal terms Thursday, relating that her own daughters were starting to get off-track before the family's pediatrician gave her a wake-up call and warned her to watch it.
WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) -- Calling obesity an epidemic and one of the greatest threats to America's health and economy, first lady Michelle Obama said Wednesday that she would launch a major initiative next month to combat the problem in childhood.
ALBANY, N.Y. (The New York Times News Service) -- People join online communities to help support them through all kinds of life changes, from getting married to moving, from having children to changing jobs. Why wouldn't they join an online support group to help them meet their weight-loss goals?
CHICAGO (AP) -- An influential advisory panel says school-aged youngsters and teens should be screened for obesity and sent to intensive behavior treatment if they need to lose weight - a move that could transform how doctors deal with overweight children.
(Daily Mail) -- When a woman asks: 'Does my bum look big in this?' she should hope the answer is yes, according to health experts.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Raise a glass of diet soda, the nation's obesity rate seems to have leveled off. But more than two-thirds of adults and almost a third of children are overweight, and there are no signs of improvement.
(Associated Press) -- Dieters can't believe everything they read: The food at many popular chain restaurants and in the freezer section of the supermarket may contain a lot more calories than advertised.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Eating healthy starts with the right ingredients -- plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes.
ALHAMBRA, Calif. (AP) -- The fight against fat is going high-tech. To get an inside look at eating and exercise habits, scientists are developing wearable wireless sensors to monitor overweight and obese people as they go about their daily lives.
(Associated Press) -- If 2010 is the year you plan to finally drop a few pounds or snuff that smoking habit, your employer may offer incentives to make those resolutions stick or even pay off with lower health premiums.
TAMPA (The New York Times News Service) -- Cut out sugar. Eat lots of protein. Hit the gym to peel off pounds. Chug water before meals.
ATLANTA (AP) -- About 10 years ago the government set some lofty health goals for the nation to reach by 2010.
(NewsRx.com) -- Women participating in the Women's Health Initiative study who reported taking an antidepressant drug had a small but statistically significant increase in the risk of stroke and of death compared with participants not taking antidepressants. The authors of a report in the December 14 Archives of Internal Medicine note that their findings are not conclusive but may signify a need for additional attention to patients' cardiovascular risk factors.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Surprises are great when it comes to holiday gifts. Not so much when we're talking about hidden calories that can add bulk to our waistlines.
BUENOS AIRES (EFE) -- Model Solange Magnano, a former Miss Argentina, died of a pulmonary embolism after undergoing cosmetic surgery in Buenos Aires, the local press reported Monday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Thanksgiving is a challenge for anyone trying to help a family stay healthy. Shelly Wilfong of Dallas is particularly aware of that this year. "My father is recuperating from his second bypass surgery," says Wilfong, 37, a wife and mother of two.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Advice about soft drinks and health from one of the nation's largest doctors groups will soon be brought to you by Coke.
WASHINGTON (USA Today) -- Many people say they eat more when they are under stress. Others eat less.
DENVER (The New York Times News Service) -- It seemed to Margie McCandless that she was destined to have diabetes.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Grilled chicken replaced the hot dogs. Strawberries instead of cookies at snack time. No more fruit juice -- water or low-fat milk only. This is the new menu at a Delaware day care center, part of a fledgling movement to take the fight against obesity to pudgy preschoolers.
LONDON (AP) -- Being fat in middle age may slash women's chances of making it to their golden years in good health by almost 80 percent, a new study says. American researchers observed more than 17,000 female nurses with an average age of 50 in the U.S. All of the women were healthy when the study began in 1976. Researchers then monitored the women's weight, along with other health changes, every two years until 2000.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Anxiety about an "obesity epidemic" continues to grow in response to almost weekly alarms and studies that report more than half of the U.S. adult population is now overweight or obese.
LONDON (AP) -- Being fat could become the leading cause of cancer in women in Western countries in the coming years, European researchers said Thursday.
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) -- Weight control research shows that the best way to distribute calories throughout the day is to eat three meals and a snack or two depending on your schedule and the size of the meals and snacks, of course.
LOS ANGELES (The New York Times News Service) -- A first-of-its-kind study released today definitively links soda consumption and an obesity epidemic, which costs California taxpayers an estimated $41 billion annually.
ATLANTA (AP) -- In a bid to ramp up the public health battle against obesity, a group of nutrition and economics experts are pushing for a tax of 1 cent on every of ounce of sodas and other sweetened beverages.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Where you live matters when it comes to children's waistlines, says a report that finds lots of options localities could and should use to fight child obesity -- from easy bike paths, to luring healthier stores, to taxes on junk food.
DALLAS (AP) -- A spoonful of sugar? Americans are swallowing 22 teaspoons of sugar each day, and it's time to cut way back, the American Heart Association says.
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- From heart-friendly margarines to sugary cereals that strengthen bones, once-demonized foods are being spiked with nutrients to give them a healthier glow -- and consumers are biting, even on some that are little more than dressed-up junk food.
WASHINGTON -- As Congress debated health care legislation last month, a new ad campaign was saturating the Washington media market. It featured two happy campers, a slim, white, adult couple on a budget holiday sipping small cans of soda, and objecting to "taxes on simple pleasures."
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- Obesity is the elephant in the room of health care reform, a public health catastrophe that kills well over 100,000 Americans a year.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Want your children to eat less?
(NewsRx.com) -- Crack open the latest medical textbook to the chapter on type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes, and you'll be hard pressed to find the term "immunology" anywhere. This is because metabolic conditions and immunologic conditions are, with a few exceptions, distant cousins (see also Harvard Medical School).
(Associated Press) -- Obese, but worried that surgery for it might kill you? The risk of that has dropped dramatically, and now is no greater than for having a gall bladder out, a hip replaced or most other major operations, new research shows.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Michael Gross placed a bunch of ripe bananas in 10-year-old Amani Bass's left hand.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Obesity's not just dangerous, it's expensive. New research shows medical spending averages $1,400 more a year for an obese person than for someone who's normal weight. Overall obesity-related health spending reaches $147 billion, double what it was nearly a decade ago, says the study published Monday by the journal Health Affairs.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- You can reduce stress by exercising and do it on a budget too. "You don't have to spend money to be active," said Jeremy Spencer, fitness coordinator for the Illinois Wesleyan University Wellness Program.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Nearly 36 percent of black Americans are obese -- much more than other major racial or ethnic groups - and that gap exists in most states, a new federal study finds.
ATLANTA (AP) -– Some swine flu cases in Michigan are raising questions about obesity's role in why some people with infections become seriously ill.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The secret to a long, disease-free life may be as simple as pushing yourself away from the dinner table before eating too much . . . at least if you're a monkey.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eat less, live longer? It seems to work for monkeys: A 20-year study found cutting calories by almost a third slowed their aging and fended off death.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- If you're trying to eat better but are confounded by the healthy logos, symbols and claims food manufacturers put on packaging, help may be on the way. Or, you may be more baffled than ever.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- An order of onion rings at Carl's Jr. has always had 530 calories. The difference on Wednesday was that customer Jessica Coe was legally entitled to that information -- and she ordered the onion rings anyway.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.
LONDON (AP) - Women who have their stomachs stapled not only lose weight, they also may reduce their cancer risk by up to 40 percent, new research says. In a study of more than 2,000 obese people who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs, Swedish researchers found women who had the procedure were less likely to get cancer than those who did not.
NEW YORK (Canadian Press) -- Leslie Fuller tried to stick to her shopping list on a recent grocery run. Instead, she found herself venturing down the candy aisle, throwing bags of Hershey's Miniatures and M&M's into her cart.
CHICAGO (AP) - The American Medical Association has taken action to support doctors' ability to discuss obesity with their overweight patients.
CHICAGO (AP) -- The gym at Eberhart Elementary School is bright and spacious -- with high ceilings, several basketball hoops, even a large, colorful climbing wall.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It isn't just the thunder thighs that shrink after obesity surgery. Melting fat somehow thins bones, too.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Doctors are testing a new kind of obesity surgery without any cuts through the abdomen, snaking a tube as thick as a garden hose down the throat to snap staples into the stomach. The experimental, scar-free procedure creates a narrow passage that slows the food as it moves from the upper stomach into the lower stomach, helping patients feel full more quickly and eat less.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eating for two? New guidelines are setting how much weight women should gain during pregnancy -- surprisingly little if they're already overweight.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Supersized pro football players are prone to high blood pressure but fare better on some other health measures than more average-sized men, new NFL-sponsored research shows. The mixed results suggest that intense physical conditioning can help reduce but not wipe out ill effects excess weight has on heart disease-related risks.
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