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Vigorous exercise may be an especially good way to keep kids lean, but sitting around, in and of itself, doesn't appear to have a major role in making them fat, new research shows.
SPRINGFIELD - The obesity rate of children in Clark County is higher than the state and national rates.
The FDA is fickle when it comes to weight-loss drugs.
BOSTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've identified a gene-diet interaction that appears to influence body weight.
MATTOON — By celebrating the beginning of the holiday season with Sarah Bush Lincoln’s Festival of Trees, community members can help provide much needed dental care to kids in need, support programs aimed at reducing childhood obesity, and help make physical changes in the health center.
Researchers recently offered the sharpest-yet picture of how core biochemical pathways in skeletal muscle cells and fat cells are altered in people who suffer from insulin resistance -- a primary defect in type 2 diabetes and obesity. Taking a systems biology approach, the bioengineers and medical researchers also determined how a common class of drugs for treating insulin resistance -- TZDs ...
Safety of Abbott's Meridia may heighten concerns for all weight-loss drugs
A new study says more than half of all adults in Mississippi could be obese within the next decade.
Obesity is tipping the scales as one of Tennessee's biggest problems.
Florida citrus has quietly taken a lot of hits recently, but when some latte-sipping, left-coast journalists attack your premier product, you've got to fight back. So when the Los Angeles Times published a lengthy article comparing orange and other fruit juices to sugary sodas as a primary contributor to the nation's obesity epidemic, the Florida...
Even controlling for income, education, obesity, smoking, and some diseases, Black infant mortality is significantly higher. This presumably indicates worse healthcare.
With obesity rates climbing in the US, there's important information that might affect you.
( Loyola University Health System ) One out of five type 2 diabetics is morbidly obese -- approximately 100 pounds or more overweight -- a Loyola University Health System study has found.
Come Thanksgiving and the holiday season, overeating -- and the subsequent weight gain -- may seem inevitable.
Researchers find link between obesity and Multiple Sclerosis Two years ago, 39 year old Charlene Pinkerton was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She says it all started more than nine years ago when she started having dizzy spells.
NEW YORK, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The New York health officials say they are working to address diabetes and obesity among residents through a variety of initiatives.
