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Latest Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today.

Total news: 24
Last news: August 30, 2007 09:00:00

The U.S. obesity rate continues to rise and is increasing at a faster clip than it has in the past, according to a study released on Monday by the Trust for Americas Health, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

In obese individuals, fat cells are bloated and inflamed because they receive too many nutrients, including lipids. In these cells, various components cannot work properly anymore and, instead, they activate new proteins to cope with the situation. One of the most challenged organelles in obese fat cells is a maze-like compartment called the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) that makes proteins and lipid droplets and senses the amount of nutrients that enter the cell. Margaret F. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

In the largest study of its kind, US researchers have found that the risk of a child being obese goes up in line with increase in the mothers sugar levels during pregnancy. Scientists are hopeful that treating more women for diabetes during pregnancy could help to reduce the incidence of childhood obesity.The study is published in the September issue of the journal Diabetes Care and is available as an early online edition. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

For most children and teens, the beginning of a new school year is just around the corner. Not only will they be hitting the books again after a three-month-long summer break, but many of them will also participate in after-school activities. More research is emerging that sheds light on a serious problem affecting student-athletes nationwide: the number of children and teens who are considered obese is rising dramatically. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) supports a new report by Trust for Americas Health that found that adult and childhood obesity is growing at record proportions, especially in the South. The association called on the collective efforts of schools, communities, businesses and government to provide a long-term solution to todays obesity epidemic. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Australias leading nutrition organisation, the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA), is launching a major campaign to tackle Australias obesity and its related diseases, which costs the nation 21 billion dollars1 or one thousand dollars per person per year. The latest statistics show that obesity has been skyrocketing with 7.4 million adults or 54% of the adult population - and around 25% of Australian kids now classified as overweight or obese. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Adult obesity is becoming more common in 31 states in the USA, according to a report "F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2007 report from the Trust for Americas Health (TFAH)". According to the report, not one single state was able to report a fall in obesity rates for the year 2006 - twenty two states experienced a second consecutive year increase. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Obese individuals who undergo bariatric surgery are less likely to die from heart disease, diabetes and cancer seven to 10 years after the procedure compared with obese people who do not undergo surgery, according to two studies published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, USA Today reports (Hellmich, USA Today, 8/25). [click link for full article] - [Read more]

An extensive Swedish study from the Sahlgrenska Academy has established that surgery reduces premature death in patients with severe obesity. A long-term follow up has shown that mortality is significantly lower among patients who undergo surgery than among those who do not.The results are published in The New England Journal of Medicine. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Experts are struggling to find ways to contain the growing number of children who are becoming obese. One useful approach might be to encourage them to choose low glycaemic index (GI) foods. However, until now there has been little evidence that this approach will work for children in the long term. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The experiment Sports scientist Peter Krustrup and his colleagues from the University of Copenhagen, the Copenhagen University Hospital and Bispebjerg Hospital have followed a soccer team consisting of 14 untrained men aged 20 to 40 years.For a period of 3 months, the players have been subjected to a number of tests such as fitness ratings, total mass of muscles, percentage of fat, blood pressure, insulin sensitivity and balance. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Family lifestyles and their impact on the health of individual family members will be the focus of a new approach to preventing diabetes.In the first study of its kind in Britain, researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow will test whether involving whole families in weight loss and fitness initiatives is effective in preventing the development of type 2 diabetes among high-risk family members. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Losing weight is hard to do. Anyone who has tried knows it is true. For most of us, the thought of dropping that extra 20 or 30 pounds of padding seems like an insurmountable goal. Imagine the need to drop 100 pounds or more.Thats just what 118 men and women did. Those 63 men and 55 women were part of a nine year study led by Dr. James Anderson, head of the UK College of Medicine Metabolic Research Group. The average beginning weight of study participants was 353 pounds. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Could explosive concentric muscle contractions be the key to optimizing the capacity for weight loss through resistance training?According to findings recently published in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise by Dr. Scott Mazzetti, Health, Physical Education and Human Performance faculty at Salisbury University, it could. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Sports scientist Peter Krustrup and his colleagues from the University of Copenhagen, the Copenhagen University Hospital and Bispebjerg Hospital have followed a soccer team consisting of 14 untrained men aged 20 to 40 years. For a period of 3 months, the players have been subjected to a number of tests such as fitness ratings, total mass of muscles, percentage of fat, blood pressure, insulin sensitivity and balance. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

An extensive swedish study from the Sahlgrenska Academy has established that surgery reduces premature death in patients with severe obesity. A long term follow up has shown that mortality is significantly lower among patients who undergo surgery than among those who do not. The results are published today in The New England Journal of Medicine. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

In light of recent studies in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) demonstrating a powerful connection between obesity interventions and reduced deaths, the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) calls on insurers and employers to increase access to the treatments of obesity and morbid obesity. In one study, led by Ted D. Adams, PhD, MPH, staggering results were reported in regards to the occurrence of death due to cancer, cardiovascular events and diabetes. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

New research on the effects of the female sex hormone estrogen in the brain lend credence to what many women have suspected about the hormonal changes that accompany aging: Menopause can make you fat.Scientists long have sought to understand how changes in hormones during menopause could account for the increase in appetite and accompanying weight gain that often occurs among aging women. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Bariatric surgery is known to be the most effective and long lasting treatment for morbid obesity and many related conditions, but now mounting evidence suggests it may be among the most effective treatments for metabolic diseases and conditions including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and obstructive sleep apnea. "Surgery for severe obesity goes way beyond weight loss. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The "worlds fattest mice" can overeat without developing insulin resistance or diabetes thanks to a glut of a key hormone, a dichotomy that helps explain why not all obese people are diabetic, a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has found. Consuming excess calories usually spurs insulin resistance and diabetes. [click link for full article] - [Read more]