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NEWS ABOUT: obesity

obesity stories: 208 news summaries

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Gene Discovery Lets Mice Gorge on Carbs, Stay Thin

Tweaked mice can munch carbs without getting fat

Mar 21, 09 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Yet another breakthrough for mice: Genetic researchers have found a way to allow them to eat all the carbs they want and not get fat, reports the Los Angeles Times. The scientists turned off a gene in the liver that plays a role in turning excess glucose into fatty acids.... More »

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obesity • genes • genetic research • weight gain • mouse

Sugar Makes Comeback on Corn Syrup's Bad Rep

Nutritionists slam food makers' efforts to sell sugar as the healthy choice

Mar 21, 09 5:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sugar, once a nutritional outcast, is back in fashion as American consumers start to turn away from high-fructose corn syrup, the New York Times reports. Manufacturers are rushing to replace the syrup—used in everything from soft drinks to spaghetti sauces—with sugar, and selling the switch as a move... More »

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obesity • sweetener • sugar • sugar substitutes • corn syrup • food industry

Study: Obesity as Bad as Smoking 

Being extremely overweight can trim a decade from lifespans

Mar 18, 09 2:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Obesity can take years off a life, and in some cases is as dangerous to health as smoking, reports USA Today. Researchers analyzing studies involving almost a million people found that obese adults died an average of three years earlier than people with a healthy body-mass index. Extremely obese adults—... More »

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obesity • obesity epidemic • smoking • public health • life expectancy • overweight

Mauritian Girls Force-Fed for Marriage

'Torture' returns as ideal of large women makes a comeback

Mar 1, 09 4:00 PM CST
(Newser) - A military coup in Mauritania has erased years of advances in women's rights, bringing a resurgence of the practice of force-fattening young girls to prepare them for marriage, the Guardian reports. "A woman's size indicates the amount of space she occupies in her husband's heart," explains an activist,... More »

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obesity • Africa • women's rights • Mauritania • forced marriage • ancient customs • force feeding

Low-Carb
or Low-Fat? Doesn't Matter

When it comes to diet, only calories count, says federal study

Feb 25, 09 8:20 PM CST
(AP) - Low-fat, low-carb, high-protein—the kind of diet doesn't matter, scientists say. All that counts is cutting calories and sticking with it, says a federal study that followed hundreds of people for two years. Millions have turned to popular diets such as Atkins, Zone, and Ornish that tout the benefits of... More »

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obesity • nutrition • public health • diet • overweight

 Joy of Cooking a Fatty Read  


Feb 17, 09 1:32 PM CST
(Newser) - The venerable Joy of Cooking has kept up with America's expanding waistlines by porking out itself, reports the LA Times. A look at 18 classic recipes from seven editions found calories per serving swelled 63% in all but one recipe between 1936 and 2006. Example: beef stroganoff required 3 tablespoons... More »

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obesity • recipes • calories • Joy of Cooking

 Website Knows Why You're Fat 


Feb 11, 09 1:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Subtle hints from the media about America’s growing obesity problem—shots of pudgy citizens, from the head down—just aren’t cutting it, Time reports. Enter “This is why you’re fat,” a website that displays in shocking detail the indulgent worst of American eating. An... More »

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obesity • Internet • fat • America • website • healthy eating • overweight

OPINION

 Don't Tell Me I'm Not Fat 

The 'f' word is just another adjective

Jan 24, 09 2:20 PM CST
(Newser) - People are constantly trying to tell Kate Harding she’s not fat, and it “drives me up a goddamn wall,” she writes in Salon. She is, by any reasonable definition, fat. It's simply another word that describes her. The problem is, everyone associates being fat with being lazy,... More »

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obesity • fat • stereotypes • body image

 Women Hard-Wired to Eat More 

Brain scans reveal that men may be better able to resist food

Jan 20, 09 7:26 AM CST
(Newser) - Women may be hard-wired to overeat, according to a new study of why men diet more successfully than women. A little-understood mechanism in the brain appears to give women less self control when it comes to dieting. Researchers speculate that women have evolved to crave food for pregnancy and lactation.... More »

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obesity • pregnancy • women • weight loss • dieting • Brookhaven National Laboratory

Nutritionists Fear We'll Pack On 'Recession Pounds'

Obesity rate linked to poverty

Jan 11, 09 4:54 AM CST
(Newser) - Health professionals fear that Americans' lighter wallets will lead to bigger bellies. During tight times, consumers tend to pick cheap, high-calorie foods over healthy items such as lean meats and fresh produce, Reuters reports. "Obesity is a toxic result of a failing economic environment," said one nutritionist. When... More »

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obesity • diet • recession • poverty • healthy eating • recession depression

Obese Americans Now Outnumber Overweight

Over a third of adults classed as one step up the scale from overweight

Jan 10, 09 4:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Americans who are merely overweight are now outnumbered by the obese, Reuters reports. New government statistics reveal that 34% of adults are obese and almost 6% extremely so, whereas 32.7% are classed as overweight. The proportion of Americans who are overweight has stayed much the same since 1980—but... More »

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obesity • public health • obese • overweight • body mass index

New Treatment Resurrects Weight-Loss Drug

Leptin, once written off, could make comeback in combination treatment

Jan 7, 09 2:56 PM CST
(Newser) - Researchers may have found a way to treat obesity with leptin—the appetite-suppressant once hailed, then dismissed, as a cure to America’s bulging belly. An area of brain cells seemingly stressed by obesity allowed the obese to build up resistance to leptin, Reuters reports, but by injecting drugs to... More »

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obesity • leptin • obesity epidemic • overweight • anti obesity drugs • medical study

ANALYSIS

Gupta's Right Doc for Political Prime Time

CNN's medicine man will help push preventive health care message, Park notes

Jan 7, 09 4:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama's choice of CNN's health correspondent as his surgeon general is raising eyebrows, but the pick underlines Obama's plans to focus on preventive care, Alice Park writes in Time. The telegenic Sanjay Gupta, while lacking the government experience most surgeon generals have brought to the job, has anchored specials... More »

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obesity • public health • Sanjay Gupta • CNN • Surgeon General • Obama administration • Obama Cabinet

Diet Trumps Exercise
in Obesity Fight

Physical activity seems not to be 'primary driver' of obesity: researchers

Jan 6, 09 5:17 PM CST
(Newser) - Diet is more important than exercise when it comes to reducing obesity, LiveScience reports. A new study compared African American women living in Chicago, who weighed an average of 184 pounds, with women in rural Nigeria, who weighed 127. Contrary to researchers' expectations, the Nigerians were not any more physically... More »

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obesity • nutrition • Chicago • obesity epidemic • diet • exercise

 Psst, Fat Boy: 
 Uncle Sam Wants You 

Military tells recruits with high BMI that they can sign up now, lose weight later

Jan 5, 09 12:25 PM CST
(Newser) - To reel in more recruits, the US Army is relaxing weight restrictions on would-be soldiers. A waiver program gives outsize volunteers a year after signing up to get in shape, measured by body-mass index, or be booted, the Christian Science Monitor reports. With the youthful population consuming more and exercising... More »

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obesity • obesity epidemic • Army recruiting • recruits • US Army • military recruits • body mass index

 Black Women 
 Getting Shorter: Study 

They're the only group to lose height over recent generations

Dec 26, 08 1:17 PM CST
(Newser) - While most of the American population is slowly gaining in height after a recent plateau, one group actually seems to be shrinking over the decades. Black women have lost about a half-inch on average compared to the previous generation, the exact opposite of the national trend, the Chicago Tribune reports,... More »

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obesity • health • height • black women • high calorie diet

 That Extra 7lbs May Be Deadly  

Study says modest weight gains risky

Dec 23, 08 7:08 AM CST
(Newser) - Even being slightly overweight can seriously increase the risk of heart problems, Reuters reports. A 20-year study of roughly 20,000 male doctors in the US found that every 7 pounds of excess body weight upped the risk of heart failure by 11%. The fatal condition, in which the heart... More »

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obesity • heart disease • exercise • body mass index • high blood pressure

OPINION

 Tax Soda: It's the New Tobacco 

Less obese, less diabetic America just a couple of laws away

Dec 18, 08 10:27 AM CST
(Newser) - The cigarette tax "was the biggest health care breakthrough in the last 40 years in the United States," and its successor may be the 18% tax on non-diet soda New York Gov. David Patterson is pitching, writes Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times. Not only... More »

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obesity • taxes • tobacco • soda • cigarette tax • David Paterson • Nicholas Kristof • soda tax

 Heart Attack Deaths 
 Plummet 30% 

Drop hailed as modern medical miracle, but disease still daunting

Dec 16, 08 2:10 AM CST
(Newser) - In what is being hailed as a medical miracle, deaths from heart attack and stroke have dropped nearly a third between 1999 and 2006, according to the latest statistics from the American Heart Association. Yet despite gains from better preventive medicine and more effective hospital treatment, one person still dies... More »

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obesity • cardiovascular disease • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • heart attack • stroke • American Heart Association • death rates • National Institutes of Health • cholesterol-lowering statins • National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Obesity Genes Mainly Affect
Your Brain

DNA behind appetites, tastes, and how likely we are to feel full: study

Dec 15, 08 10:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Overeating is all in your head, but you can blame that on your DNA, the Times of London reports. Of the seven gene variations connected with obesity, five affect the brain’s wiring, suggesting that an inherited tendency toward slimness has more to do with appetite and impulse control than... More »

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obesity • diet • eating • overeating • nature vs. nurture • genetic research • health research

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