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First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 6 hours ago - 4 reports

Monash University

Physicians face medical challenges in treating spine trauma in morbidly obese patients

Physicians at Monash University and The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia describe the logistic, medical, and societal challenges faced in treating spine trauma in morbidly obese patients. Based on a case series of six patients injured in high-speed ... [Published News-Medical.Net - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Obesity, Patient, case series, Monash University, Neurosurgery

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 2 reports

Obesity 'costing Irish economy more than €1bn per year'

Leading health experts say obesity is costing the Irish economy more than €1bn every year. ... [Published Breaking News.ie - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Obesity

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 3 reports

Black American Obesity Examined In The Latest FinancesOnline.com Article

According to the latest “” article published recently at FinancesOnline.com the wailing and flailing of health experts on obesity is fully justified. The points out that 33.0% of U.S. adults aged 20 and over are overweight, 35.7% are obese, and 6.3% are ... [Published Bio-Medicine - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Obesity, African-Americans, Dietary Fats, Overweight, Diet

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 7 hours ago - 4 reports

Vending Machine

Senate votes to limit sugary drinks at schools

Elementary and middle school students at Texas’ public schools — including some in the Austin area — might soon be unable to buy sugary drinks from school vending machines.A bill approved Tuesday by the Texas Senate prohibits selling sweetened beverages ... [Published Stateline - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Carlos Uresti, Vending Machine, Obesity, Austin, Texas Department of Agriculture

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 9 hours ago - 2 reports

Obesity directly tied to several cancers

"Obesity is a major risk factor for developing cancer, roughly the equivalent of tobacco use, and both are potentially reversible. Further, obese cancer patients do worse in surgery, with radiation or on chemotherapy - worse by any measure." Karen Basen-Engquist, ... [Published News-Medical.Net - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Obesity, Cancer, Endometrial Cancer, Tumor, Behavioral Science

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 3 reports

NHS

NICE promotes healthier workplace food to tackle obseity

Local authorities and NHS employers are being urged to set a national example and help combat the UK's obesity problem by making healthy food available to staff.A new briefing from the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on tackling ... [Published Workplace Savings & Benefits - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Obesity, Public Health, NHS, Mike Kelly, National Institute of Health

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 11 hours ago - 5 reports

Institute of Psychiatry

Child abuse increases risk of adult obesity

Washington, May 22 (ANI): Children who have suffered maltreatment are 36 percent likelier to be obese in adulthood, according to a new study.The findings come from the combined analysis of data from 190,285 individuals from 41 studies worldwide.In addition ... [Published News Track India - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Obesity, Child Abuse, Molecular Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Causality

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 7 reports

Boys with ADHD twice as likely to be obese adults: study

The study began in 1970, well before ADHD was a national buzzword, and tracked 207 white males diagnosed with the condition for 33 years. The average age boys were diagnosed was 8 years old, and their average age at the end of the study was 41.When compared ... [Published New York Daily News - May 21 2013]

Entities: ADHD, Obesity, Body Mass Index, NYU Langone Medical Center, ADHD-diagnos

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 8 reports

Mother's Diet During Pregnancy Determines Likelihood of Obesity and Heart Disease in Future Life

A new report has indicated that the diet consumed by the mother during pregnancy determines the risk of obesity, heart disease and asthma in her offspring. The British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) said that pregnant women need t be aware that their diet ... [Published MedIndia - May 21 2013]

Entities: Diet, Heart Disease, Obesity, Pregnancy

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 7 reports

Smoking During Pregnancy Raises Daughter's Risk Of Gestational Diabetes And Obesity

Women who smoke while pregnant are at a higher risk of having daughters who become obese and/or develop gestational diabetes, according to a new study published in Diabetologia.The fact that smoking is harmful during pregnancy has long been known, however, ... [Published Medical News Today - May 21 2013]

Entities: Smoking, Obesity, Pregnancy

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 7 reports

Childhood ADHD linked to obesity later in life

Boys who are diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in elementary school are more likely to grow up to be obese adults than those who don't have the condition, a new study suggests. (Ã?ÃÂ»Ã ?Ã Â ÃÂ£Ã ?Ã ÂÃÂ´ÃÂ½ÃÂ¸ÃÂºÃÂ¾ÃÂ²) ... [Published The Valley Dispatch - May 20 2013]

Entities: ADHD, Obesity

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 15 reports

Childhood ADHD Linked to Obesity in Adulthood

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered that men diagnosed with ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) as children were twice as likely to become obese as adults. The new study titled “Obesity in Men With Childhood ADHD: A 33-Year ... [Published Psychology Today - May 20 2013]

Entities: ADHD, Obesity, Body Mass Index, New York University, Francisco Xavier Castellanos

Quotes

"You can eliminate that risk factor right now, today, by exercising three times a week," says Dr. Amen. "Include a little weight training, because the amount of lean muscle mass on your body is the number one predictor of longevity. The stronger you are as you age, the less likely you are to get Alzheimer's."

Exercise and Alzheimer's [Published Kait 8 - 19 mins ago]

"It's important for people to invest in their health and it's important for the Government to invest in prevention" she said

Experts say cost of obesity in Cairns will swell [Published Cairns Post - 20 mins ago]

"We did not find an association between frequency of candy intake and BMI or cardiovascular risk factors among adults" said lead author Mary M Murphy, MS, RD of ExponentExponent Inc., Center for Chemical Regulation & Food Safety

Eating Candy Doesn’t Increase Obesity, CVD Risk [Published Food Product Design - 24 mins ago]

"Bottle feeding somehow changes the feeding dynamic," she said in a BYU news release, "and those who bottle feed, alone or mixed with some breastfeeding, are more likely to add cereal or sweeteners to their infant’s bottle at an early age, even before feeding cereal with a spoon."

To fight childhood obesity: drop that bottle, baby! [Published Salt Lake Tribune - 36 mins ago]

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Children's Cholesterol Checks [Published FOX47News - 46 mins ago]
Head Start tackles obesity [Published Education News Colorado - 48 mins ago]
Setting an example [Published Elmira Independent - 50 mins ago]
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Blogs

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Pines punched a “one way ticket toward genome o... [Published Ars Technica - 1 hour ago] Relatives of the Norway spruce are some of the oldest living things on the planet. They haven't used all that time to tidy up their genomes, though. National Park Service Last week we heard about the genome of a plant that pushed the limits of compacting ...
High Fructose Corn Syrup Addictive Like Cocaine... [Published Scientific Blogging - Neuroscience - 4 hours ago] Is the obesity epidemic due to the addictive qualities in food or that a lot more food is cheap and plentiful than ever before in history? A paper presented at the 2013 Canadian Neuroscience Meeting, the annual meeting of the Canadian Association for ...
Privacy, public health and the moral hazard of ... [Published Boing Boing - 16 hours ago] My new Guardian column, "Privacy, public health and the moral hazard of surveillance," discusses the way that the governments' reliance on social networks for intelligence purposes means that they can't intervene to help their populations get better ...
Keas partners with nutrition experts to encoura... [Published Venturebeat - 18 hours ago] The typical employer pays an average of $10,000 a year per employee for healthcare.Keas announced at Healthbeat today two new content partnerships with My Healthy Dish and Noshtopia that will help employees make wiser nutritional choices and save employers ...
Keas partners with nutrition experts to encoura... [Published Venturebeat - 18 hours ago] The typical employer pays an average of $10,000 a year per employee for healthcare. Keas announced at Healthbeat today two new content partnerships with My Healthy Dish and Noshtopia that will help employees make wiser nutritional choices ...

Audio/Video

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Americans High on Sugar, Not Splenda [Published WSJ.com Video - Business - May 13 2013]
How to give your pet the healthiest diet [Published CBS News Online - YouTube - May 10 2013]
Coca-Cola pledges to tackle obesity [Published CNN.com - Video - May 09 2013]
Coke to Stop Marketing to Kids [Published WSJ.com Video - Business - May 08 2013]
Coke to Stop Marketing to Kids [Published WSJ.com Video - Digits - May 08 2013]

Press Releases

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Targeted Medical Pharma to Present at Marcum Mi... [Published Business Wire - 45 mins ago]
Charles A. Moss, M.D. Announces "The Adaptation... [Published Business Wire - 50 mins ago]
New Research Highlights Biological and Genetic ... [Published Business Wire - 1 hour ago]
Sunrise Soya Foods Launches its Super Squeezies... [Published PR inside - 1 hour ago]
WellPoint, Inc. Honored by the National Busines... [Published Business Wire - 4 hours ago]