Posts Tagged ‘weight’
Lose weight. Regain it. Blame hormones?
U. MELBOURNE (AUS) — Obese people may regain weight after dieting due to hormonal changes, a new study shows. Continue…
Monday, October 31, 2011 6:00 - 5 Comments
Health & Medicine - Sep 7, 2011 11:02 - 0 Comments
Overweight at 25: Higher risk of early death
UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US) —Young adults who carry extra weight are more likely to die early—even if they slim down when they get older. (more…)
Top Stories - Jan 26, 2011 13:18 - 6 Comments
Ditch the diet (and the scale)
UC DAVIS (US) — Do diets ever work? A new study suggests focusing on weight loss can actually lead to weight gain and even can have negative affects on overall health. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 16, 2010 13:38 - 1 Comment
Ingrained activity wards off weight
NORTHWESTERN (US) — People who engage in moderate to vigorous activity nearly every day of the week starting as young adults will gain significantly less weight by middle age. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 20, 2010 16:15 - 0 Comments
Insulin hitches obesity to memory
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — People who are obese display different brain responses than their normal-weight peers while completing a challenging cognitive task. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 16, 2010 10:36 - 0 Comments
School centers good for teens’ health
MICHIGAN STATE (US)—Students with access to school-based health centers experience greater satisfaction with their health, more physical activity, and greater consumption of healthy food than students who do not use such centers. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 12, 2010 10:59 - 7 Comments
How water helps us lose weight
VANDERBILT (US)—Ordinary water—without any additives—does more than just quench thirst. It increases the activity of the sympathetic—fight or flight—nervous system, which raises alertness, blood pressure, and energy expenditure. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jun 29, 2010 14:29 - 2 Comments
Scale, mirror both carry weight with teens
PENN STATE (US)—Adolescent girls who think they are overweight, but are not, are at more risk for depression than girls who are overweight and know it. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 31, 2010 12:11 - 1 Comment
Heavy babies move less—and later
UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US)—Everybody loves a chubby baby, but those little rolls of fat may actually slow an infant’s ability to crawl and walk. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 29, 2010 14:35 - 1 Comment
Obesity adds new twist on job growth
U. ROCHESTER (US)—The sedentary, stressful conditions of the typical American workplace often lead to weight gain, and even obesity, according to a new study. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 22, 2010 22:36 - 26 Comments
High-fructose corn syrup’s big fat secret
PRINCETON (US)—All sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain. Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same, new research shows. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 30, 2009 14:31 - 8 Comments
Nature selects for shorter, stouter women
YALE (US)—Researchers have detected the effects of natural selection among two generations of contemporary women and predict their descendants will be slightly shorter and chubbier, have lower cholesterol and blood pressure, and have their first children earlier in life. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 10, 2009 11:09 - 2 Comments
Midnight snacks pack on pounds
“How or why a person gains weight is very complicated, but it clearly is not just calories in and calories out,” says lead researcher Fred Turek.
Health & Medicine - Sep 3, 2009 11:25 - 2 Comments
Friends don’t let friends supersize
DUKE (US)—Thin friends who eat a lot could put your waistline in danger. That’s the warning from researchers studying how other people’s weight and food choices influence how much we eat. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 25, 2009 4:00 - 0 Comments
Gender gap in the gym
“Agreement is growing that the source of the obesity epidemic lies in an environment that produces an energy gap, where energy intake exceeds energy expenditure even by as little as 100 excess calories per day,” the study authors report.
Health & Medicine - Jul 2, 2009 13:14 - 0 Comments
Money not the best motivator to shed pounds
Obesity rates in the United States have doubled since 1980. As of 2003-04, 66 percent of Americans were overweight and almost half of those were obese.
Health & Medicine - Jun 26, 2009 17:11 - 0 Comments
Bigger waistlines thanks to brain’s shortcut
“The eating environment has morphed into an atypical scenario where our usually helpful mental mechanisms betray us,” says Andrew Geier, lead author and a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania.
Health & Medicine - Jun 8, 2009 10:55 - 3 Comments
Stressed kids at risk for obesity
Steve Garasky and Brenda Lohman, pictured here in the observation room of Iowa State University’s Child Development Lab School, are authors of a new study finding increased levels of stress in adolescents are associated with a greater likelihood of them being overweight or obese. (Credit: Bob Elbert/ISU News Service)
Health & Medicine - Jun 4, 2009 15:44 - 1 Comment
Low-cost diabetes drug gets second look
TULANE (US)—Can an old drug perform new wonders? A team of researchers at Tulane and Harvard universities is partnering with the National Institutes of Health to test the abilities of salsalate, an inexpensive generic drug, to control diabetes. (more…)
