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TUESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) -- While there are plenty of good reasons to avoid obesity in your teens, a new study now suggests that extra weight in adolescence may increase your risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) later.
The Otero County Health Department, which also serves Crowley County, will be the recipient of a large, $3.7 million grant early next year to combat both obesity and tobacco use in the two counties, Rick Ritter, director of the health department reported to the Otero County Commissioner on Monday.
The fact that parents don't let their kids play outside has translated into an ever-growing epidemic of childhood obesity.
Teenage women who are obese may be more than twice as likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS) as adults compared to female teens who are not obese, according to a study published in the November 10, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.The research involved 238,371women from the Nurses' Health Study and Nurses' Health Study II who were 25 to ...
African-Americans are killing themselves, slowly, and quietly, little by little, every day and the killer is not likely to grab headlines or to bloody the streets. The murderous weapon is food, and many African-Americans are, quite simply, eating themselves to death.
Have you heard of "the fat gap?” The term sprang up last month, when a survey in Great Britain found the majority of overweight people there are oblivious to the fact that they’re heavy. The findings pin down a phenomenon that health professionals have been talking about for years: As those around us get fatter, our perception of our own size changes accordingly.Are you caught in the fat gap ...
Puberty is the first big change in life. Many believe this period of pimples, bras and periods is starting earlier for girls.
Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Tuesday posted a smaller third-quarter loss following completion of clinical testing of its obesity drug candidate lorcaserin.
The taxing of sugary drinks is becoming a viable option to enforce healthier living in many states and even on the floor of Congress.
A new study suggests that eating your food at a fast pace blocks the body's natural appetite-control process. "Most of us have heard that eating fast can lead to food over consumption and obesity, and in fact some...studies have supported this notion," Dr.
Firm focuses on TB. breast cancer, diabetes, obesity and autoimmune diseases.
Obesity appears to be a risk factor on a par with pregnancy for developing complications from an infection with pandemic H1N1 influenza.
You thought you could guzzle fruit juice forever without getting fat, fatty? No! Scientists warn the calories in fruit juice make you fat just like the calories in soda. Other "danger" foods that put...
The creators of the "Got Milk?" campaign are getting ready to make a big push to keep chocolate milk on kids' minds and on school lunch menus, a plan that has some educators and obesity activists none too pleased.
Obesity causes more than 100,000 incidents of cancer in the US every year, the American Institute for Cancer Research said in estimates published Friday.
Funding will provide for research on black adolescent obesity Wayne State was recently one of seven universities awarded a $5.7 million grant for research into black adolescent obesity. from the National Institutes of Health....
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