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Researchers use educational TV characters to promote healthy eating among preschoolers

Researchers at the Hood Center for Children and Families at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth have received a two-year, $275,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and test a program that uses children's educational TV characters to promote healthy eating and physical activity among preschoolers.

6 Sep 2013

Study: Less than 10 minutes of higher-intensity physical activity reduce risk of obesity

Short bursts of less than 10 minutes of higher-intensity physical activity reduce the risk of obesity, finds a new study in the American Journal of Health Promotion.

6 Sep 2013

Behavior problems in childhood may lead to inflammatory conditions later in life

Children with behavioral problems may be at risk of many chronic diseases in adulthood including heart disease, obesity, diabetes, as well as inflammatory illnesses (conditions which are caused by cell damage).

6 Sep 2013

Many developing countries in Asia-Pacific region face twin burdens of under and overnutrition

Asia and the Pacific's drive for food security has focused too narrowly on quantity, with a surge in obesity and still high levels of malnutrition in some countries highlighting the need for a new approach, says a new Asian Development Bank study.

5 Sep 2013

Doctor’s recommendations for parents to prevent child’s healthy heart from obesity

Childhood obesity is a national health care crisis. More than one-third of children and teens are overweight or obese. Plus, obese children are more likely to become obese adults.

5 Sep 2013

World Bank Group, IHME reports to help policymakers tackle health issues facing countries

In the Middle East and North Africa, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes are causing a massive amount of premature death and disability. People in Latin America and the Caribbean are living longer on the whole, yet they face increasing threats from chronic diseases. Mortality has declined in many South Asian countries, yet the number of deaths by non-communicable diseases and self-harm has skyrocketed since 1990.

5 Sep 2013

Obesity gene testing may help reduce self-blame

Obesity gene testing does not put people off weight loss and may help to reduce self-blame, according to a new study by researchers from the Health Behaviour Research Centre at UCL (University College London).

5 Sep 2013

FIBRO-TARGETS project aims to identify mechanisms involved in MIF, define therapeutic approaches

Unravelling the mechanisms of cardiac fibrosis will lead to the discovery of therapeutic target candidates for various cardiac diseases. FIBRO-TARGETS brings together eleven European expert teams from six different countries both from public research institutes and European biotechs.

5 Sep 2013

Heart researchers to establish stronger cardiovascular network in Chicago area

Heart research in Chicago will enter a new era Sept. 20 when top researchers from all of Chicago's major academic medical centers meet at the American Heart Association's 2013 Chicago Research Network Symposium.

5 Sep 2013

Case Western researchers establish Kruppel-like factors as master regulators of vascular health

Case Western Reserve researchers have identified a genetic factor that blocks the blood vessel inflammation that can lead to heart attacks, strokes and other potentially life-threatening events.

5 Sep 2013

Underweight women with CAD should gain weight to reduce risk of death

Being underweight increases the death risk of women with coronary artery disease (CAD) by 2-fold, according to research presented at the ESC Congress today by Dr Aziza Azimi from Denmark. The study suggests that underweight women with CAD should gain weight to reduce their risk of death.

5 Sep 2013

Menopause findings show asthma to be ‘women’s health issue’

Results from a nationwide study in the USA show that women of menopausal age have a rate of asthma hospitalization that is more than twice that of men of the same age.

4 Sep 2013

Researchers evaluate association between body weight and health-related quality of life

Scientists from the Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management (IGM) and from the Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI II) discovered that weight gain leads to deterioration in physical health.

4 Sep 2013

Obese people with high insulin levels likely to experience better blood vessel function following weight loss

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that among obese people who had lost considerable weight, those with high insulin levels--a marker of insulin resistance in the body--were the most likely to experience better blood vessel function following the weight loss. These findings appear online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

4 Sep 2013

More young people show risk factors for common type of strokes

Fifteen percent of the most common type of strokes occur in adolescents and young adults, and more young people are showing risk factors for such strokes, according to a report in the journal Neurology.

4 Sep 2013

Study assesses relationship between BMI and CV events in hypertensive patients with diabetes

Low BMI is a risk factor for CVD in hypertensive patients with diabetes, according to research presented at the ESC Congress today by Dr Takanori Nagahiro from Japan. The findings provide evidence for an obesity paradox in hypertensive patients with glucose intolerance.

3 Sep 2013

Women in their 40s and 50s are hospitalized more than twice for asthma attack

Asthma is a disease that mostly affects young boys and adult women. And according to a new study, women in their 40s and 50s with asthma are hospitalized more than twice as often as men in the same age group. The 10-year study is published in the September issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI).

3 Sep 2013

Authors of new paper outline possible factors to identify metabolically healthy obesity

Metabolically healthy obesity – where an individual has a Body Mass Index of greater than 30 but does not appear to be at increased risk of the health complications usually associated with excess weight – has only been recently widely recognised by medical practitioners.

3 Sep 2013

Each daily minute of higher-intensity activity lowers odds of obesity

To win the war against weight gain, it turns out that every skirmish matters - as long as the physical activity puts your heart and lungs to work.

2 Sep 2013

Being overweight but metabolically healthy is not linked with increased risk of heart attack

Metabolically healthy women have the same cardiovascular disease risk regardless of their BMI, according to research presented at the ESC Congress today by Dr S-ren Sk-tt Andersen and Dr Michelle Schmiegelow from Denmark.

2 Sep 2013

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Latest Obesity News and Research

Researchers use educational TV characters to promote healthy eating among preschoolers

Study: Less than 10 minutes of higher-intensity physical activity reduce risk of obesity

Behavior problems in childhood may lead to inflammatory conditions later in life

Many developing countries in Asia-Pacific region face twin burdens of under and overnutrition

Doctor’s recommendations for parents to prevent child’s healthy heart from obesity

World Bank Group, IHME reports to help policymakers tackle health issues facing countries

Obesity gene testing may help reduce self-blame

FIBRO-TARGETS project aims to identify mechanisms involved in MIF, define therapeutic approaches

Heart researchers to establish stronger cardiovascular network in Chicago area

Case Western researchers establish Kruppel-like factors as master regulators of vascular health

Underweight women with CAD should gain weight to reduce risk of death

Menopause findings show asthma to be ‘women’s health issue’

Researchers evaluate association between body weight and health-related quality of life

Obese people with high insulin levels likely to experience better blood vessel function following weight loss

More young people show risk factors for common type of strokes

Study assesses relationship between BMI and CV events in hypertensive patients with diabetes

Women in their 40s and 50s are hospitalized more than twice for asthma attack

Authors of new paper outline possible factors to identify metabolically healthy obesity

Each daily minute of higher-intensity activity lowers odds of obesity

Being overweight but metabolically healthy is not linked with increased risk of heart attack

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