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Senator Proposes $4.5 Billion for Child Nutrition
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For more than a year, advocates of school food reform have been calling for more money to improve school lunch. Today, they're one step closer to getting it, but some say the amount is far less than they had hoped. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 19, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Low-Fat Diet Does Little to Alter Cholesterol LevelsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Title: Low-Fat Diet Does Little to Alter Cholesterol LevelsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 3/18/2010 10:10:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 3/19/2010 (Source: MedicineNet Weight Management General)
Source: MedicineNet Weight Management General - March 19, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: consumer
PepsiCo Pledges Not to Sell Sugary Beverages in Schools WorldwideEmail this article to a colleague.
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Consumer advocacy groups are very happy with a pledge, announced Tuesday by PepsiCo, that the company will stop selling full-sugar soft drinks to primary and secondary schools around the world by 2012. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 18, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Libraries Help Fill City Nutrition Gaps; Virtual Supermarket Serves Residents of Areas Without Grocery StoresEmail this article to a colleague.
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Residents of two Baltimore neighborhoods that lack supermarkets will soon be able to order their groceries through a free delivery system that operates with the click of a mouse from the library. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 18, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Reply to Frank et al., 'The Light Look at a Heavy Problem' cartoon series letterEmail this article to a colleague.
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(Source: Obesity Reviews)
Source: Obesity Reviews - March 18, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: Garry Egger Source Type: journals
Oxygen Supply To Unborn Baby Reduced By Obesity And Passive SmokingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Babies born to mothers with obesity and exposed to passive smoking are more likely to have health problems than others. This conclusion is based on evidence of elevated levels of nucleated red blood cells in the umbilical cord reported in the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health... (Source: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today)
Source: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today - March 17, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Tags: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Source Type: news
Scientists Believe That Anti-Obesity Drugs Are Unlikely To Provide Lasting BenefitEmail this article to a colleague.
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool argue that anti-obesity drugs fail to provide lasting benefits for health and wellbeing because they tackle the biological consequences of obesity, and not the important psychological causes of overconsumption and weight gain... (Source: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today)
Source: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today - March 17, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Tags: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Source Type: news
New Surveys From Stop Obesity Alliance Show Primary Care Doctors And Patients See Shared Role In Weight Loss, But Ask, Now What?Email this article to a colleague.
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Primary care physicians agree they have a role in addressing obesity, but say they do not have the right weight management resources. Obese or heavier adults take responsibility for weight loss, but adults who need to lose weight may lack information about effective weight loss methods and strategies... (Source: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today)
Source: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today - March 17, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Tags: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Source Type: news
Good and Bad Health Habits in U.S.Email this article to a colleague.
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Title: Good and Bad Health Habits in U.S.Category: Health NewsCreated: 3/16/2010 4:11:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 3/17/2010 (Source: MedicineNet Weight Management General)
Source: MedicineNet Weight Management General - March 17, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: consumer
St. Patrick's Day Recipes: Healthy VersionsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Title: St. Patrick's Day Recipes: Healthy VersionsCategory: Expert's ViewsCreated: 2/11/2005Last Editorial Review: 3/17/2010 (Source: MedicineNet Weight Management General)
Source: MedicineNet Weight Management General - March 17, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: consumer
Michelle Obama: You Can’t Mandate Healthy EatingEmail this article to a colleague.
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First Lady Michelle Obama compared her nation-wide child obesity campaign to the campaign to require Americans to wear seatbelts that culturally people have to be ready to make the shift without a mandate. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 17, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
A Push for Healthier School MealsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Charlie Baltimore eyed the pizza in the cafeteria of the High School of the Future with simmering contempt. "In a year," the school administrator vowed, "we're going to eliminate pizza." (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 17, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Re: 'The Light Look at a Heavy Problem' cartoon seriesEmail this article to a colleague.
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(Source: Obesity Reviews)
Source: Obesity Reviews - March 17, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: Arthur Frank, Scott Kahan Source Type: journals
Early-life determinants of overweight and obesity: a review of systematic reviewsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The aim of this paper was to review the evidence for early-life (from conception to 5 years of age) determinants of obesity. The design is review of published systematic reviews. Data sources included Medline, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, PsycINFO. Identification of 22 eligible reviews from a database of 12 021 independent publications. Quality of selected reviews assessed using the Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews score. Articles published after the reviews were used to confirm results. No review was classified as high quality, 11 as moderate and 11 as low. Factors associated with later overw...
Source: Obesity Reviews - March 17, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: L. Monasta, G. D. Batty, A. Cattaneo, V. Lutje, L. Ronfani, F. J. van Lenthe, J. Brug Source Type: journals
Michelle Obama Talks Anti-Obesity to Food GiantsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Michelle Obama has talked to schools and nutrition groups across the country in her effort to reduce childhood obesity. On Tuesday she will face the food companies that make the snacks and junk food that stuff grocery aisles and school vending machines. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 16, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
‘I Understand the Challenges People Face Every Day’Email this article to a colleague.
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Regina Benjamin, America's Surgeon General, discusses the difficulty of tackling childhood obesity—and the highest peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 16, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
U.S. Youth Likely to Face Greater Health IssuesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Americans are not only getting fatter, but they're still smoking and they're not exercising enough. Every few years the federal government releases the findings of its survey of health behaviors among U.S. adults. This year's report covers 2005 to 2007 — and it's not really good news. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 16, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Childhood Obesity Gains, Losses: Chicago Kids Slimmer in Early Years, But Fatten Up by Sixth GradeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Fewer Chicago kids entering kindergarten and first grade were obese in 2008 vs. five years earlier. But children in Chicago are still more likely to be fatter than kids nationwide and, by sixth grade, more than one in four kids here is obese. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 16, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
The effect of theory-based interventions on physical activity participation among overweight/obese individuals: a systematic reviewEmail this article to a colleague.
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Little attention has been paid to the evaluation of the long-term impact of theory-based interventions on physical activity participation among overweight/obese individuals after the interventions have ended. The primary aim of this systematic review was to investigate the long-term effectiveness of theory-based interventions increasing physical activity and identify the most effective techniques for behaviour change among overweight/obese individuals. The secondary aim was to investigate the effect of these interventions on theoretical variables. Eighteen studies were reviewed. Among these studies, three reported signific...
Source: Obesity Reviews - March 16, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: A. Bélanger-Gravel, G. Godin, L.-A. Vézina-Im, S. Amireault, P. Poirier Source Type: journals
The prevalence of overweight and obesity among Danish school childrenEmail this article to a colleague.
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In 14 Danish municipalities physicians have gathered weight and height data from 7541 9th grade students (86.7% of all students in 9th grade participating). Overall 25.2% of the population were overweight (body mass index > 90th percentile). Boys were more frequently overweight than girls (29.3% vs. 21.1%) (P < 0.05). 14.1% of the boys and 8.2% of the girls were obese (body mass index > 97th percentile). Categorizing the participating municipalities by socioeconomic status students in municipalities with low status had a significantly higher prevalence of overweight than students in municipalities with high status. Overwei...
Source: Obesity Reviews - March 16, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: K. Søren, C. Jo Source Type: journals
Morphological and biochemical features of obesity are associated with mineralization genes’ polymorphismsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Morphological and biochemical features of obesity are associated with mineralization genes’ polymorphisms
International Journal of Obesity advance online publication, March 16, 2010. doi:10.1038/ijo.2010.53
Authors: M Korostishevsky, Z Cohen, I Malkin, S Ermakov, O Yarenchuk
& G Livshits (Source: International Journal of Obesity)
Source: International Journal of Obesity - March 16, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: M KorostishevskyZ CohenI MalkinS ErmakovO YarenchukG Livshits Tags: mineralization genes and obesity SNPs and haplotypes genetic association study gene interaction variance component models Source Type: journals
Are there socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular risk factors in childhood, and are they mediated by adiposity? Findings from a prospective cohort studyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Are there socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular risk factors in childhood, and are they mediated by adiposity? Findings from a prospective cohort study
International Journal of Obesity advance online publication, March 16, 2010. doi:10.1038/ijo.2010.52
Authors: L D Howe, B Galobardes, N Sattar, A D Hingorani, J Deanfield, A R Ness, G Davey-Smith
& D A Lawlor (Source: International Journal of Obesity)
Source: International Journal of Obesity - March 16, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: L D HoweB GalobardesN SattarA D HingoraniJ DeanfieldA R NessG Davey-SmithD A Lawlor Tags: ALSPAC child inequality cardiovascular Source Type: journals
Pubertal exposure to high fat diet causes mouse strain-dependent alterations in mammary gland development and estrogen responsivenessEmail this article to a colleague.
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& S Z Haslam (Source: International Journal of Obesity)
Source: International Journal of Obesity - March 16, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: L K OlsonY TanY ZhaoM D AupperleeS Z Haslam Tags: mammary gland puberty estrogen amphiregulin Source Type: journals
The impact of perinatal probiotic intervention on the development of overweight and obesity: follow-up study from birth to 10 yearsEmail this article to a colleague.
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& E Isolauri (Source: International Journal of Obesity)
Source: International Journal of Obesity - March 16, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: R LuotoM KalliomäkiK LaitinenE Isolauri Tags: growth overweight probiotics Source Type: journals
Telomere length of subcutaneous adipose tissue cells is shorter in obese and formerly obese subjectsEmail this article to a colleague.
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p; J M Fernández-Real (Source: International Journal of Obesity)
Source: International Journal of Obesity - March 16, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: J M Moreno-NavarreteF OrtegaM SabaterW RicartJ M Fernández-Real Tags: telomere length adipocytes adipose tissue formerly obese subjects Source Type: journals
Increased adipogenic conversion of muscle satellite cells in obese Zucker ratsEmail this article to a colleague.
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& R Vettor (Source: International Journal of Obesity)
Source: International Journal of Obesity - March 16, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: A ScardaC FranzinG MilanM SannaC Dal PràC PaganoL BoldrinM PiccoliE TrevellinM GranzottoP GambaG FederspilP De CoppiR Vettor Tags: adipogenesis IMAT muscle SC myogenesis WNT signaling Zucker rats Source Type: journals
Effects of pain controlling neuropeptides on human fat cell lipolysisEmail this article to a colleague.
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& P Arner (Source: International Journal of Obesity)
Source: International Journal of Obesity - March 16, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: V van HarmelenA DickerE SjölinL BlomqvistM WirénJ HoffstedtM RydénP Arner Tags: NPFF NPSF GPR74 GPR147 Source Type: journals
Obesity induced bronchopulmonary hyperresponsiveness in Tunisian womenEmail this article to a colleague.
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& A Ben-Jebria (Source: International Journal of Obesity)
Source: International Journal of Obesity - March 16, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: A ChouchaneH Miâdi-MessaoudI GhannouchiS RouatbiA ZbidiZ TabkaA Ben-Jebria Tags: bronchial hyperreactivity asthma inflammation women Source Type: journals
Michelle Obama: Why I’m Fighting Childhood ObesityEmail this article to a colleague.
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For years, we've known about the epidemic of childhood obesity in America. We've heard the statistics—how one third of all kids in this country are either overweight or obese. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 15, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
2 Drugs Fail to Prevent Diabetes in the OverweightEmail this article to a colleague.
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Title: 2 Drugs Fail to Prevent Diabetes in the OverweightCategory: Health NewsCreated: 3/14/2010 10:10:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 3/15/2010 (Source: MedicineNet Weight Management General)
Source: MedicineNet Weight Management General - March 15, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: consumer
Thin Wallets, Thick Waistlines: New USDA Effort Targets Link between Obesity and Food StampsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Could added incentives and other changes to the federal food stamp program trim rampant obesity rates among low-income groups? (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 15, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
School Lunches Linked to Kids' Obesity; Study Shows Kids Who Bring Lunch From Home Are Less Likely to Be OverweightEmail this article to a colleague.
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Attention, parents! More than one in three middle school students who regularly eat school lunches are obese or overweight. They're also more likely to have high LDL "bad" cholesterol levels than kids who bring lunch from home. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 15, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
How U.S. Agriculture Policies Contribute to Childhood ObesityEmail this article to a colleague.
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Talk about throwing down a gauntlet. In the March issue of Health Affairs, editor Susan Dentzer charges that “America is guilty of child abuse” for allowing almost one in three of its children to become either overweight or obese. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 15, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Physical activity and weight loss following bariatric surgeryEmail this article to a colleague.
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In conclusion, observational evidence of self-reported physical activity suggests that physical activity increases after bariatric surgery and that physical activity is associated with surgically induced weight loss. However, these findings warrant further evaluation using objective measures of physical activity and testing in controlled trials. (Source: Obesity Reviews)
Source: Obesity Reviews - March 15, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: D. Jacobi, C. Ciangura, C. Couet, J.-M. Oppert Source Type: journals
Forget Goofing Around: Recess Has a New BossEmail this article to a colleague.
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At Broadway Elementary School here, there is no more sitting around after lunch. No more goofing off with friends. No more doing nothing.
Editor’s Note: RWJF supported the expansion of the Playworks recess program, mentioned in this article. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 14, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Culture of CorpulenceEmail this article to a colleague.
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American innovations in food, transportation, and technology are threatening to supersize us all. Look around anywhere in America and the reality assaults you: we are simply too big. Nowhere is the evidence for this more striking than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's color-coded obesity map. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 14, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Obesity Rampant in Trenton ChildrenEmail this article to a colleague.
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Almost half of Trenton's children are overweight or obese, according to alarming statistics in a recent Rutgers University study. Childhood obesity is an epidemic that afflicts children in Trenton and other New Jersey urban communities at a notably higher rate than the national average, according to the study by the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 13, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Overweight Preteens More Likely to Eat School-Provided LunchesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Students who regularly eat lunch provided by their schools are more likely to be overweight and have higher levels of cholesterol than those who eat meals brought from home, a Michigan study found. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 13, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Risk factors, correlates, and markers in early-onset bulimia nervosa and EDNOSEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study aimed to investigate the specific risk factors, correlates, and markers associated with the development of symptomatology of early-onset BN and subclinical BN.Two semi-structured interviews were used to examine symptomatology and antecedent factors of bulimic symptoms in a sample of British adolescents.Adolescents with early-onset eating pathology were significantly more likely to report an earlier age of menarche than those developing the disorder at the typical age, and were found to have a different pathway of symptom development.Increased awareness of this may help identify those particularly at risk for dev...
Source: International Journal of Eating Disorders - March 13, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: Jemma Day, Ulrike Schmidt, David Collier, Sarah Perkins, Frederique Van den Eynde, Janet Treasure, Irene Yi, Suzanne Winn, Paul Robinson, Rebecca Murphy, Saskia Keville, Eric Johnson-Sabine, Mari Jenkins, Susie Frost, Liz Dodge, Mark Berelowitz, Ivan Eisl Source Type: journals
The Results Are In: Users Of BodyMedia's Wearable Body-Monitoring Technology Lose 3 Times More WeightEmail this article to a colleague.
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With obesity in America reaching alarming levels -- across our adult and youth populations -- results from a clinical trial unveiled by BodyMedia confirm that participants who used BodyMedia's wearable body-monitoring technology either in conjunction with a group weight loss program or as part of their own self-directed program lost up to three times more weight than individual... (Source: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today)
Source: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today - March 12, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Tags: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Source Type: news
Onion Cream Treats New Stretch MarksEmail this article to a colleague.
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Title: Onion Cream Treats New Stretch MarksCategory: Health NewsCreated: 3/12/2010 11:23:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 3/12/2010 11:23:01 AM (Source: MedicineNet Weight Management General)
Source: MedicineNet Weight Management General - March 12, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: consumer
The Obesity-Hunger ParadoxEmail this article to a colleague.
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When most people think of hunger in America, the images that leap to mind are of ragged toddlers in Appalachia or rail-thin children in dingy apartments reaching for empty bottles of milk. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 12, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Trends in overweight and obese adults in Malaysia (1996–2009): a systematic reviewEmail this article to a colleague.
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The objective of this systematic review is to describe the trend from 1996 to 2009 in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in adults in Malaysia nationally and by gender, age and race. Results indicate that there has been a small rise in overweight adults in the years 1996, 2003 and 2006 (20.7%, 26.7% and 29.1%) and a much more dramatic increase in obesity in 1996, 2003, 2004 and 2006 (5.5%, 12.2%, 12.3% and 14.0%). Evidence showed a greater risk for overweight and obesity among women compared with men. Based on the highest-quality studies, overweight and obesity levels were highest among adults 40[ndash]59 years old. ...
Source: Obesity Reviews - March 12, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: A. Z. Khambalia, L. S. Seen Source Type: journals
Support Grows for Limiting Junk Food in Mass. SchoolsEmail this article to a colleague.
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A bill that would ban the sale of sugary drinks and junk food in school vending machines and school stores is gaining momentum in the Legislature, as Massachusetts combats a troubling rise in childhood obesity rates. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 11, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Bolder Action Needed From Government On Obesity, Says Heart Charity, UKEmail this article to a colleague.
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In response to the Department of Health's 'Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives Strategy Two Years On' (1) report looking at the Government's progress on tackling rising levels of obesity in children and adults, Peter Hollins, Chief Executive for the British Heart Foundation (BHF) says: "Unfortunately childhood obesity levels in England remain far too high and it is too early to ... (Source: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today)
Source: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today - March 11, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Tags: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Source Type: news
Panera Bread's Calorie Postings: The Writing's on the Wall, LiterallyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Panera Bread’s decision to put calorie information on its menu boards — the first national chain to do so — is an indication of just how far the restaurant industry has come on this once controversial issue. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 11, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Area Ranks High in Obesity SurveyEmail this article to a colleague.
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If there were a nationwide competition called "Who's the Fattest?" Montgomery, Autauga, Elmore and Lowndes counties would have a share of the trophy -- at least among 183 metropolitan areas in the U.S. That's according to the Well-Being Index, a newly released report by Gallup and the Nashville, Tenn.-based health care company Healthways. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 11, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Mass. Senate Passes Bill Limiting Junk food at SchoolsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The state Senate approved a bill today that bans the sale of junk food and sugary drinks in school vending machines and school stores. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity - March 11, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Association of Pericardial Fat With Liver Fat and Insulin Sensitivity After Diet-Induced Weight Loss in Overweight Women.Email this article to a colleague.
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In conclusion, cross-sectionally PAT is correlated with VAT, liver fat, and insulin resistance. Longitudinally, the association between PAT and insulin resistance was lost suggesting no causal relationship between the two.
PMID: 20224561 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Obesity)
Source: Obesity - March 11, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: Bosy-Westphal A, Kossel E, Goele K, Blöcker T, Lagerpusch M, Later W, Heller M, Glüer CC, Müller MJ Tags: Obesity (Silver Spring) Source Type: journals
EDIC Peer - Reviewed AbstractsEmail this article to a colleague.
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(Source: European Eating Disorders Review)
Source: European Eating Disorders Review - March 11, 2010 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: journals
