Historic Minority Health Summit Launches Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Communities InitiativeFour key congressional leaders,along with top health care and business officials have created an agendathat will focus on community health education and obesity prevention forSouthern California minority communities. This plan was created frommeetings at a historic health summit of top thought-leaders, entitledEmpowering Local Community, Informing National Policy Makers: A New Agendato Address Health Disparities Conference in Los Angeles on Friday, July7th. [click link for full article]
Americans Know What They're Missing In Their DietsNearly six Americans in 10 (58percent) acknowledge that they do not eat a balanced diet on a regularbasis, according to a new survey commissioned by the Council forResponsible Nutrition (CRN). Although 81 percent of those asked said thateating a balanced diet was important, only 20 percent say they eat abalanced diet every day. The survey results also showed that nearly half of U.S. [click link for full article]
Sleep Deprivation Doubles Risks Of Obesity In Both Children And AdultsResearch by Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick has found that sleep deprivation is associated with an almost a two-fold increased risk of being obese for both children and adults. Early results of a study by Professor Francesco Cappuccio of the University of Warwick's Warwick Medical School were presented to the International AC21 Research Festival hosted this month by the University of Warwick. [click link for full article]
Meridia Helps Obese Teenagers Lose WeightMeridia (sibutramine), combined with behavioural therapy, has been shown to be effective in helping obese teenagers lose weight, according to a study carried out by Dr. R Berkowitz and team at Children Hospital of Philadelphia. The researchers found the treatment is effective for obese 12-year-olds as well. The study involved 498 12-16 year old children at 33 weight-loss clinics - all of the children were obese. [click link for full article]
Asthma -- Obesity ConnectionA new asthma gene provides an unexpected link between asthma and obesity according to a research team at Sydney's Garvan Institute, who are also part of the Cooperative Research Centre for Asthma and Airways.Bennett Shum and colleagues have found that a fatty acid binding protein called aP2, which is already known for its role in diabetes and obesity, is also present in the lung where it is crucial in controlling inflammation in asthma. [click link for full article]
Online Weight Loss Tools Quickly Becoming Preferred Solution For Americans TodayMore and more Americans are usingthe Internet for everything from buying a new car to paying bills andbooking vacations. Approximately 77% of Americans are now online, up from74% in 2005, and compared with 57% back in 2000.(1) Now, Americans are evendieting online -- seeking the tools, support and motivation of onlinecommunities to achieve weight loss goals. [click link for full article]
Obese Teenage Girls Have High Risk Of Middle Age DeathA girl in her teens who is obese has a much greater chance of dying during middle age than a teenage girl of normal weight, according to researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health. With childhood obesity in many parts of the world on the increase, in years to come we could see life-expectancy coming down. In much of the developed world, and some parts of the developing world, teenage obesity is growing at an alarming rate. In the...
Medication Plus Behavior Changes Helps Obese Adolescents Lose WeightThe weight loss medication sibutramine, when combined with behavior therapy, allowed hundreds of very obese adolescents to lose an average of 14 pounds over a year, according to a multicenter study in the July 18 Annals of Internal Medicine. Adolescents in the study who received placebo (a sugar pill) gained four pounds over the year.In addition to reductions in body mass index and weight, the treated adolescents had improvements in disease risk factors associated with obesity. [click link for full...
Obesity Experts Back Abbott InitiativeTwo of Australia's leading obesity experts have rejected as "nonsense" criticism by the AMA and Labor Party of the $3 million obesity study initiative announced yesterday by Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott. [click link for full article]
Teen Obesity Linked With Premature Death In AdulthoodChildren and adolescents in the U.S. and around the world are becoming more overweight. A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has found that there may be serious consequences to that trend. Researchers found that being overweight at age 18 is associated with an increased risk of premature death in younger and middle-aged women. The study appears in the July 18, 2006 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. [click link for full article]
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