Archive for November, 2009
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) — While rates of obesity are
climbing across America, they are especially high in sections of
Appalachia and the Southeast, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention reports in its first county-by-county survey.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Reuters - A woman’s risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) during her lifetime is doubled if she was obese at age 18, new research shows.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Reuters - Toddlers and obese children suffer far greater blood-vessel damage and other harm from secondhand smoke than other children, which could put them on the path to heart disease later in life, according to a new study.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Reuters - Low-carb and high-carb diets work equally well for maintaining weight loss, Australian researchers report.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)
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. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) — Surging obesity rates,
especially among children, may be putting the brakes on progress made in
the past few decades against heart disease, researchers report.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)AP - Authorities say a severely overweight South Carolina man stayed in his recliner without moving for eight months until shortly before his death.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) — Secondhand smoke harms the
cardiovascular health of children, especially toddlers and obese
youngsters, U.S. researchers say.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)LiveScience.com - Some obese individuals don’t realize they have a weight problem, a new study finds. That could be an unhealthy attitude as these same people tend not to exercise and have many risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Reuters - Fasting every other day can help obese people lose weight, a small study hints.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Time.com - Diet, exercise and genes aren’t the only factors responsible for body weight, say researchers, who are discovering evidence of another component: the bacteria in your gut
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) — Eating a Westernized diet
with lots of sugar and carbohydrates caused almost instantaneous changes
in the gut flora of mice — changes that caused the mice to become obese,
researchers have found.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)
Time.com - New data from a long-term survey suggests that U.S. teens are no less active today than they were in 1991. Yet they’ve gotten increasingly heavier over the same period
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) — While there are plenty of good
reasons to avoid obesity in your teens, a new study now suggests that
extra weight in adolescence may increase your risk of multiple sclerosis
(MS) later.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) — Obesity is a major risk factor
for left atrial enlargement, which increases the risk of atrial
fibrillation, stroke and death, a new study shows.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Reuters - Most U.S. teenagers are not as active as they should be, but a lack of exercise does not seem to account for rising rates of teen obesity, a new study finds.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) — Both a high-fat,
low-carbohydrate diet such as the popular Atkins program and a low-fat,
high-carb diet appear to help people lose pounds over the course of a
year.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)
AFP - Obesity causes more than 100,000 incidents of cancer in the US every year, the American Institute for Cancer Research said in estimates published Friday.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)
Reuters - Obesity causes more than 100,000 cases of cancer in the United States each year — and the number will likely rise as Americans get fatter, researchers said on Thursday.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Reuters - Obesity causes more than 100,000 cases of cancer in the United States each year — and the number will likely rise as Americans get fatter, researchers said on Thursday.
More: continued here
If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)
- September 2010 (9)
- August 2010 (38)
- July 2010 (42)
- June 2010 (31)
- May 2010 (27)
- April 2010 (36)
- March 2010 (46)
- February 2010 (44)
- January 2010 (35)
- December 2009 (10)
- November 2009 (21)
- October 2009 (24)
- September 2009 (27)
- August 2009 (9)
- July 2009 (32)
- June 2009 (88)
- May 2009 (79)
- April 2009 (90)
- March 2009 (76)
- February 2009 (79)
- January 2009 (68)
- December 2008 (88)
- November 2008 (70)
- October 2008 (88)
- September 2008 (86)
- August 2008 (79)
- July 2008 (94)
- June 2008 (66)
- May 2008 (58)
- April 2008 (77)
- March 2008 (81)
- February 2008 (76)
- January 2008 (94)
- December 2007 (36)
