Schools step in to fight child obesity
Schools are teaching children to grow and cook healthy food in hopes of countering the spread of obesity.
BigPond News,
Wed Dec 09 11:17:22 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Schools step in to fight child obesity
Schools are teaching children to grow and cook healthy food in hopes of stopping the spread of Australia's obesity plague.
Sky News Australia,
Wed Dec 09 11:20:02 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Topix.net
360,000 news channels, from Autos to your ZIP code.
• Found on Topix News
Large, rare chromosomal deletions associated with severe early-onset obesity
Obesity is a highly heritable and genetically heterogeneous disorder. Here we investigated the contribution of copy number variation to obesity in 300 Caucasian patients with severe early-o...
Nature,
Wed Dec 09 10:09:55 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Obesity, diabetes high in Tennessee counties
NASHVILLE -- A first-time look at diabetes and obesity at the county level shows that in Tennessee, conditions go from bad to worse.Williamson County, a wealthy suburb of Nashville , had th...
Memphis Commercial Appeal,
Wed Dec 09 08:46:00 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Dawn French criticised for encouraging obesity
Dawn French has been criticised by a leading clinical nutritionist for "encouraging people to accept their obesity".
Daily Telegraph,
Tue Dec 08 23:07:30 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Global Health Partner starts up business for the treatment of obesity in Prague, C...
Global Health Partner has started up a business for the treatment of obesity in Prague, and the first obesity operations have now been performed.
News-Medical-Net,
Wed Dec 09 03:16:26 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Panel lays out obesity attack plan
New Hampshire's schools should be measuring their students' weights, banning junk food from vending machines and encouraging more physical activity, advised a panel appointed by Gov. John L...
Concord Monitor,
Tue Dec 08 22:32:53 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Kitchen-garden program aims to cut obesity
Schools are teaching children to grow and cook healthy food in an attempt to stop the spread of Australia's obesity plague.
thewest.com.au,
Tue Dec 08 21:11:44 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
NH childhood obesity prevention recommendations
The 14 recommendations made Tuesday by the New Hampshire Commission on Prevention of Childhood Obesity:
Boston Globe,
Tue Dec 08 08:03:58 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Study: Missing DNA linked to childhood obesity
British researchers have found edidence that lack of particular chunks of DNA, which kicks hunger into overdrive, will cause severe childhood obesity, according to media reports on Tuesday.
Vietnam Net,
Tue Dec 08 02:21:12 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Getting A 'Head Start' On Obesity Prevention
Temple study finds early childhood program goes above and beyond requirements to prevent obesity among high-risk childrenAlmost 1 million preschool children from low-income families are enr...
redOrbit,
Mon Dec 07 20:10:31 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.: Childhood Obesity's Contribution To Heart Attacks
We can no longer wait until our children "grow out of their baby fat". Unfortunately, today's kids keep their baby fat and continue to add to it throughout their lives.
The Huffington Post,
Wed Dec 09 10:44:55 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Nutrition: Health risks, medical costs tied to obesity increase
As obesity rates in the United States continue to rise at an alarming rate, so do the medical costs associated with weight-related illnesses.
The News-Press,
Mon Dec 07 22:13:25 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Study: Missing DNA linked to childhood obesity
British researchers have found edidence that lack of particular chunks of DNA, which kicks hunger into overdrive, will cause severe childhood obesity, according to media reports on Tuesday....
People's Daily,
Tue Dec 08 00:51:45 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Obesity, diabetes high in Tennessee counties
The new data show that about 10.6 percent of Davidson County adults have diabetes, while almost 30 percent are considered obese.
The Tennessean,
Wed Dec 09 00:27:07 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Obesity and Inactivity -- The Biggest Threat to the Nation
America
PRWeb,
Mon Dec 07 22:59:36 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Valencia Weight Loss Surgery Center Launches State-of-the-Art Website to Reach Out...
The medical director of Town Center Surgery, a practice offering plastic surgery and weight loss surgery in Valencia, California (http://www.towncentersurgeryweightloss.com/), is launching ...
PRWeb,
Tue Dec 08 00:17:07 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
Obesity 'linked to genetic defect in kids'
A team at Cambridge University, led by Sadaf Farooqi, has carried out a research and found that obesity in kids is caused not by overeating or overfeeding, but due to a fault in their chrom...
Hindustan Times,
Mon Dec 07 14:45:29 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News
How calorie-restricted diets fight obesity and extend life span
( American Chemical Society ) Scientists searching for the secrets of how calorie-restricted diets increase longevity are reporting discovery of proteins in the fat cells of human volunteer...
EurekAlert!,
Wed Dec 09 09:27:48 PST 2009
• Found on Yahoo! News