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Overweight kids at higher risk for blood clots as adults

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Overweight kids at higher risk for blood clots as adults

Overweight children may be more likely than normal-weight children to develop life-threatening blood clots as adults, a new Danish study suggests. The good news is, getting to a healthy weight by age 13 eliminated the extra ...

Mar 15, 2019

Health

Eliminating smoking and obesity could affect racial health disparities

Obesity and smoking are the two leading causes of preventable deaths in the U.S., yet their full impact on health disparities is still being uncovered.

Mar 14, 2019

Overweight & Obesity

Green tea cuts obesity, health risks in mice

Green tea cut obesity and a number of inflammatory biomarkers linked with poor health in a new study.

Mar 14, 2019

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Health

Slow down! Eating too fast can pile on the pounds

(HealthDay)—Has your hectic lifestyle turned you into someone who gulps down meals?

Mar 11, 2019

Overweight & Obesity

Small changes can go far in preventing childhood obesity

In the United States, the percentage of children and adolescents with obesity has more than tripled since 1970. Today, approximately one in five school-aged children (ages 6 to 19) is obese, according to the Centers for Disease ...

Mar 08, 2019

Diabetes

Raspberries may aid glucose control with prediabetes

(HealthDay)—Eating red raspberries may help with glucose control in people with prediabetes, according to a small study published online Feb. 14 in Obesity.

Mar 07, 2019

Genetics

Scientists identify genetic factors that may cause some people to become obese

Obesity is a major public-health problem in the United States and around the world, with an estimated 650 million people suffering from the condition. One of the biggest challenges of this ever-worsening condition is figuring ...

Mar 06, 2019

Psychology & Psychiatry

Vulnerable narcissists more susceptible to eating disorders

Vulnerable narcissists are more likely to develop eating disorders, according to a new study from The Australian National University (ANU).

Mar 05, 2019

Medical research

How celastrol sensitizes brains to leptin, curbing hunger and obesity

Celastrol's potent anti-obesity effects were widely reported in 2015. Derived from the roots of the thunder god vine, the drug curbed food intake in obese mice by nearly 80 percent, producing up to a 45 percent weight loss. ...

Mar 04, 2019

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Neuroscience

Being overweight may be linked to better survival from stroke

It may seem counterintuitive, but having some extra body fat may be linked to an increased chance of surviving a stroke, according to a preliminary study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's ...

Mar 04, 2019

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Health

Easy ways to rev up your metabolism and burn calories

(HealthDay)—Your metabolism rate determines how fast you burn calories, and that can influence how fast you lose weight—and how easily you can gain it.

Mar 04, 2019

Overweight & Obesity

Tracking food leads to losing pounds

Without following a particular diet, overweight people who tracked daily food consumption using a free smartphone app lost a significant amount of weight in a new Duke University study.

Feb 28, 2019

Cardiology

Beta blockers: Do they cause weight gain?

Yes. Weight gain can occur as a side effect of some beta blockers, especially the older ones, such as atenolol (Tenormin) and metoprolol (Lopressor, Toprol-XL). The average weight gain is about 2.6 pounds (about 1.2 kilograms).

Feb 27, 2019

Diabetes

Cellular alterations increase vulnerability of obese and diabetic individuals to infection

People who suffer from obesity and type 2 diabetes are more likely to become victims of infectious diseases. Both conditions affect the immune system and hence increase the risk of infections. Scientists have long sought ...

Feb 27, 2019

Neuroscience

Review suggests a reciprocal relationship between obesity and self-control

In a review published February 26 in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, researchers explore the age-old chicken-or-the-egg conundrum but this time looking at whether obesity reduces self-control or if reduced self-control ...

Feb 26, 2019

Overweight & Obesity

Taking a bite out of food ads targeted to kids

(HealthDay)—Kids can be as strongly influenced by TV commercials as by the shows themselves, and many studies have found that tempting food ads have a particularly harmful effect, contributing to childhood obesity.

Feb 25, 2019

Overweight & Obesity

Is the most effective weight-loss strategy really that hard?

If you want lose weight, research shows, the single best predictor of success is monitoring and recording calorie and fat intake throughout the day—to "write it when you bite it."

Feb 25, 2019

Overweight & Obesity

Clinical trial: Prenatal DHA prevents blood-pressure increase from obesity during childhood

Research published today in JAMA Network Open by investigators at the University of Kansas and KU Medical Center finds pregnant mothers who daily consumed 600 milligrams of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)—an omega-3 fatty acid ...

Feb 22, 2019

Psychology & Psychiatry

Weight stigmatization by medical professionals is preventable, researcher says

Anti-fat stigmatization is a common problem in Canada's health-care system, but one that is preventable, says Dr. Patty Thille, assistant professor of physical therapy in the College of Rehabilitation Sciences.

Feb 22, 2019

Overweight & Obesity

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Breastfeeding can erase effects of prenatal violence for newborns

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Reprograming T cells to attack solid tumors

Researchers predict 1.4 million deaths from all cancers in 2019 in the EU

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