Management
Jul 08, 2010
 Many Americans clueless of how many calories they do or should eat
That is, they don't know how many calories they should consume in a day to maintain their current weight, a nationally representative online survey of 1,024 people shows. |
Jun 24, 2010
Lifestyle Intervention Reduces Preschoolers' Body Fat, Improves Fitness
Migrant children are at increased risk of obesity, but a new study shows that a program teaching multiple lifestyle changes to predominantly migrant preschoolers and their parents helps the children reduce body fat and improve fitness. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego. |
Jun 14, 2010
Black tea may match green for weight benefits: Study
Like green tea, extracts from black tea may also help reduce weight gain and cut body fat levels, says a new study from Japan with rats and mice. |
Jun 21, 2010
For Insulin-Resistant Women, Cutting Carbs Is More Effective Than Low-Fat Diet
Obese women with insulin resistance lose more weight after three months on a lower-carbohydrate diet than on a traditional low-fat diet with the same number of calories, according to a new study. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego. |
Jun 07, 2010
Parents Unreliable In Reporting Children's Height, Weight
Parents often misperceive their children's height and weight, according to research presented at the American College of Sports Medicine's 57th Annual Meeting in Baltimore. One in five obese children-21 percent-would not be identified as obese when using parent-reported data. |
May 26, 2010
What's More Important in the Obesity Battle - Physical Activity or Medical Treatment?
Experts disagree in the British Medical Journal about the best way to tackle the obesity crisis. While Professor Louise Baur and colleagues from the Children's Hospital at Westmead and the University of Sydney in Australia acknowledge that "physical inactivity is a major contributor to the global burden of disease," they says that it would be wrong to only focus on this and ignore the problem of obesity. |
May 03, 2010
Four Strategies Women Use To Manage Their Weight
A study by Stephanie Lanza and colleagues from Pennsylvania State University, published in the latest issue of OBESITY, suggests that women’s weight loss strategies can be divided into four common strategies and that simple questions can help predict these behaviours.
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Apr 19, 2010
Green tea extract effective for weight loss at low doses
Daily supplements of a purified extract of green tea may increase energy expenditure and help men beat the bulge, say results from a new human study. |
Apr 07, 2010
New weight-loss strategies focus on how we eat, not what
the principle of eating slower as a way of controlling the pounds and reducing caloric intake is a good one |
Apr 07, 2010
Lean People Turn Up The Heat, Obese People Insulate
Humans, like all mammals, face the challenge of maintaining our body’s core temperature (at around 37 degrees Celsius or 98 degrees Farenheit) despite changes in ambient temperature. This maintenance of temperature comes at a caloric cost - indeed, a considerable proportion of the calories we burn each day are used solely for regulating our body’s temperature. |
Mar 28, 2010
Better Ways to Help the Public Lose Weight
It seems like everywhere we turn — whether it’s bans on school bake sales, required calorie counts in fast food chains, or First Lady Michelle Obama toiling in her White House garden — we are being told to watch our weight. There’s even the national Campaign to End Obesity, which is “dedicated to reversing America’s costliest medical condition” and advocates for “federal policies that promote healthy weight.” |
Feb 01, 2010
Weight-Loss Duet: Exercise and Dieting
Dieting may get the scale to start moving, but exercise revs your metabolism. Learn why and find out how much exercise is needed. |
Jan 13, 2010
Pregnant women should be weighed regularly to protect babies from danger of obesity
Pregnant women should be weighed regularly to safeguard the health of the unborn child against maternal obesity, medical experts have said. |
Dec 06, 2009
Are Healthy Obese People Healthy?
Aree apparently metabolically healthy obese individuals really healthy in that they have a lower mortality risk than obese individuals with metabolic abnormalities? |
Dec 06, 2009
Investigators Identify Successful Weight Control Strategies For Adolescents
Adolescent obesity is a major public health problem that impacts one out of every three children, resulting in 4-5 million overweight youth in the United States. |
Nov 30, 2009
On-and-off fasting helps obese adults lose weight: study
Fasting every other day can help obese people lose weight, a small study hints. |
Nov 08, 2009
Study Finds That Weight Loss, Diet Can Fend Off Type 2 Diabetes
It seemed to Margie McCandless that she was destined to have diabetes. |
Oct 18, 2009
Day care next frontier in fighting childhood obesity
Day care is the next frontier: New Harvard research shows few states require that child-care providers take specific nutrition and physical activity steps considered key to keeping the under-5 crowd fit. |
Oct 18, 2009
Doctors join fight against obesity
Despite the growing obesity epidemic, some physicians find it difficult to talk to heavy patients about their weight — and even harder to help them lose weight. |
Oct 05, 2009
Fat-AND-FIT Movement Growing
"The solutions are the same, no matter your size. You need to be active and eat nutritious foods." |
Sep 27, 2009
Your personality can affect your weight loss
Stating an example, the study says being too optimistic could derail weight loss efforts. |
May 14, 2009
The challenge of obesity treatment: avoiding weight regain
Given the shortage of nurses, exercise specialists and dieticians could be useful in programs to maintain weight and should be included routinely in the care of these patients, suggests Ross. |
May 13, 2009
Program Makes Weight Loss a Success
Support from nurses is as effective as a more expensive intensive program to help maintain weight after participation in a weight-loss program. Dale and colleagues came to this conclusion from their randomized trial involving 200 women who had lost 5% or more of their body weight. |
Jan 26, 2009
Moderate Weight Loss Reduces Risk Of Heart Disease
Evidence shows that even a moderate weight reduction in obese people could save them a lifetime of health problems, especially heart disease. |
Dec 14, 2008
When will Health Professionals Understand Obesity? |
Sep 15, 2008
Workplace Obesity Management Provides Good Return On Investment
A program to reduce weight and improve health risk factors in obese employees produces a short-term return on investment (ROI) of $1.17 per dollar spent, reports a study in the September Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official pu |
Aug 24, 2008
Early Weight Loss Could Help Control Type 2 Diabetes
People who lose weight soon after being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes have better control of their blood pressure and blood glucose levels and are more likely to maintain that control even if they regain their weight, say researchers in America. |