People attempting to lose weight won't need to track their daily food intake anymore, thanks to a wearable, picture-taking device created at the University of Pittsburgh. eButton - a device worn on the chest (like a pin) that contains a miniature camera, accelerometer, GPS, and other sensors -...
Study determines that BMI 23-28 kg/m2 should be limit compared with current limit of BMI 30 kg/m2, due to increased risk of heart disease and diabetes among South Asians A major study calling for levels of obesity among South Asians to be recalculated has been published by researchers from the...
A new imaging study suggests if we were to take a pill based on two simple gut hormones we would eat less because it would fool the brain by signalling we're full even if we're not. The researchers scanned the brains of the same volunteers at two different times: just after they fasted and...
A researcher in teenage obesity at the University of Hertfordshire claims that policy and practice targets need to be realistic if obesity is to be addressed effectively. Dr Wendy Wills at the University's Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care (CRIPACC) will elaborate on this mission...
Activating a specialized type of fat, known as brown adipose tissue, may help combat obesity as well as result in better glucose control for type 2 diabetes, according to new research conducted by scientists at the UC Metabolic Diseases Institute. The current UC study suggests that activating...
Teenagers who go to bed early are much less likely to be obese and have a better chance of being physically fit, compared to peers go to sleep late, researchers from the University of South Australia reported in the journal Sleep. The authors added that teenagers who go to bed later but sleep...
A shocking 17 per cent of boys and 15 per cent of girls aged two to 15 years are obese in the UK1, putting them at risk of serious, long-term health problems. Now a team of Aberdeen researchers are investigating special diets which could help youngsters keep the weight off, thanks to a grant...
The majority of people who undergo bariatric weight-loss surgery benefit from the procedure, but long-term complications and further surgery are not uncommon, according to a UK paper on late postoperative complications in the October issue of BJS, the British Journal of Surgery. However, a...
Researchers have discovered that obese adults undergoing surgery are less frequently developing respiratory insufficiency (RI) and adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and that when they do, they are less likely to have fatal outcomes. The researchers say they have several theories of how...
Researchers out of Arizona State University recently published an article in the American Journal of Public Health titled "Shared Norms and Their Explanation for the Social Clustering of Obesity". It looked at why obesity seems to be common in some families and groups of friends. Along the lines...
Sixteen out of the 50 U.S. states have gotten fatter according to a new report released this week. Thus, obesity rates in a dozen states have risen about 30% with Mississippi being the largest state in the commonwealth overall. Mississippi has an adult obesity rate of 34.4% and Colorado is...
Up to half-a-million overweight/obese children in England have a significant risk of developing "fatty liver disease", Professor Martin Lombard, the country's National Clinical Director for Liver Disease has warned. Fatty liver disease, also known in this case as non-alcoholic fatty liver...
Often when mother's birth big babies, many feel it is a sign of strength, exceptional health and promises of a long term survival. However, sometimes larger babies never lose the "baby weight" and go on to be quite obese. There are things parents can do by instilling habits that can lead to...
The mechanisms by which obesity leads towards metabolic co-morbidities, such as diabetes mellitus, are poorly understood and of great public health interest. A study led by Matej OreÅ¡iÄ? from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland suggests that adaptation of fat cell membranes to obesity may...
I mean if people consume foods that have chemicals that make things grow faster and bigger what will happen to us the consumers?
I am not a scientist so I would appreciate gaining knowledge about the relationship (if any) between obesity and GMOs.
Being less active and eating more food has led to the average UK male weighing over a stone more in 2000 than he did in 1986, reflecting a rising trend in obesity rates. This was the conclusion of a British Heart Foundation-funded study led by Dr Peter Scarborough of the Department of Public...
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) and The Humana Foundation announced today that five U.S. nonprofit organizations will receive a total of $212,000 to combat childhood obesity, a serious public health crisis in the U.S. These grants are a part of The Humana Foundation's 2010 Future Without Childhood...
Experimental drug Contrave(R) (naltrexone SR/bupropion SR) for the treatment of obesity has been recommended for approval by the FDA's Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee. The Committee (Panel) voted 13 to 7 in favor of approving Contrave for long-term use among certain obese...
Obesity is highly heritable, but so far genetic association studies have only explained a small fraction of this heritability. Now, in a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, researchers have identified DNA variants in two nervous system genes that are...
Researchers at the Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), University of Copenhagen, can now unveil the results of the world's largest diet study: If you want to lose weight, you should maintain a diet that is high in proteins with more lean meat, low-fat dairy products and beans and fewer finely...