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Studies show obesity taking hold in Africa and UK

Reuters - 1 hour 19 minutes ago

Obesity is becoming more common among poor city dwellers in Africa because of easier access to cheap, high fat, high sugar foods, scientists said on Tuesday.

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NFL awards grant to fight childhood obesity
AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 54 minutes ago
The NFL's charitable foundation is awarding a grant to study how to better prevent childhood obesity.
Obesity epidemic taking root in Africa
EurekAlert! - 6 minutes ago
The urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa are the latest victims of the obesity epidemic. Researchers writing in the open-access journal BMC Public Health claim that overweight and obesity are on the increase among this group.
Discovery of new gene called Brd2 that regulates obesity and diabetes
EurekAlert! - 1 hour 7 minutes ago
The chance discovery of a genetic mutation that makes mice enormously fat but protects them from diabetes has given researchers at Boston University School of Medicine, USA, new insights into the cellular mechanisms that link obesity to type 2 diabetes. Dr Gerald Denis and his colleagues report their findings in the current issue of The Biochemical Journal.
City Releases Fat-Drinking Video to Fight Obesity
NBC New York - Mon Dec 14, 3:07 pm ET
The Department of Health's newest anti-obesity advertisement makes their last fat-in-a-cup subway ad seem mild.
NFL's charitable foundation awards grant to study how to better prevent childhood obesity
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - 1 hour 49 minutes ago
NEW YORK - The NFL's charitable foundation is awarding a grant to study how to better prevent childhood obesity. NFL Charities will provide a three-year, $1.8 million grant as part of its "NFL Play 60" campaign to The Cooper Institute in Dallas to fund its Fitnessgram program.
NFL Charities Combat Childhood Obesity
WCTV Tallahassee - 11 minutes ago
NFL awards grant to fight childhood obesity
Obesity in Arkansas
CW Arkansas - 2 hours 5 minutes ago
Obesity in Arkansas A new study from the u-s centers for disease control shows 28-percent of adult Arkansans are considered obese. That’s roughly four times the population of Little Rock. Nationwide the CDC’s study found 26 percent of adults are obese.
Obesity bad for pets, too
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Mon Dec 14, 1:09 pm ET
The latest research indicates that half of all pets are overweight or obese, which closely mirrors the obesity epidemic in the human population and is not any better for pets than it is for their owners.
Del. Tries to Fight Rising Obesity Rates
WBOC Salisbury - Mon Dec 14, 1:40 pm ET
WILMINGTON , Del. (AP) - Delaware has created several initiatives to fight obesity in response to a big spike in rates.
MyHealthManagement.com - Combats Obesity With Health Foods and Diet Meal Planning
URLwire - Mon Dec 14, 2:52 pm ET
Using a combined experience of 60 years in the Food Industry, Nutrition and Nutritional Counseling, Mental Health and Internal Medicine, Gene Carbonell and Jan Steele-Chadwick founded Health Management and Nutrition to offer diet meal planning and combat obesity.
Central obesity may increase dementia risk in women
HealthandAge - Mon Dec 14, 3:58 am ET
Central obesity – or having an ‘apple’ rather than ‘pear’ shape – is defined as having a waist-to-hip ratio of greater than 0.8. If you have a larger waist measurement, you might be carrying some central obesity Research has shown that fat around the middle is linked with a number of health problems, including heart disease.
Madison YMCA, Horizon Foundation enlist Facebook to fight obesity
Madison Eagle - Mon Dec 14, 2:08 am ET
MADISON – For those interested in joining the fight against childhood obesity, it can be as easy as typing “Healthy U” on Facebook to show support for the more than 18,000 New Jersey children who are exercising more, eating better, and learning healthy lifestyles.
Controlling key enzyme in brain offers clue for future obesity treatment
EurekAlert! - 13 minutes ago
Researchers from Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital and elsewhere have determined that inhibiting the Sirt1 enzyme in the brain appears to help control food intake. Activating Sirt1 elsewhere in the body -- by fasting or with red wine -- is thought by some to help people live longer. Details of the new Sirt1 brain finding will be published online Dec. 15, 2009, in the journal PLoS ONE.
State's obesity rates get worse
The Leaf Chronicle - Sun Dec 13, 6:13 am ET
NASHVILLE (AP) — An analysis of diabetes and obesity on the county level in Tennessee shows that conditions go from bad to worse.
Obesity report: Too many in Ark. and Mo. tip scales with too much
KY3 Springfield - Mon Dec 14, 11:32 am ET
See county-by-county data for Missouri and Arkansas. The study rated 26.1 percent of adults nationwide as obese.