Tag: obesity
Childhood obesity linked to premature death in adulthood
Sunday Feb 14, 2010 (foodconsumer.org) -- One study led by Dr. John Harrington at Eastern Virginia Medical School and colleagues shows that half the children ...
Childhood obesity linked to later onset of puberty in boys
A new study led by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System suggests that excess body weight may lead to a later onset of ...
Obese women less likely to breastfeed their babies
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Adolescent obesity boosts multiple sclerosis risk
Sunday Jan 24, 2010 (foodconsumer.org) -- The FDA said on Jan. 22 it has approved a new drug called Ampyra (dalfampridine) for treatment of multiple ...
Lose Sleep, Gain Weight: Another Piece of the Obesity Puzzle
By Angela Spivey
Angela Spivey writes from North Carolina about science, medicine, and higher education. She has written for EHP since 2001 and is a member ...
CoQ10 Found to Fight Obesity
Posted by: Dr. Mercola December 12 2009
Supplements of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) may protect or retard the development of fatty liver related to obesity, suggest ...
It's the genetics, stupid!
Some minor errors in the previous version are corrected.
By Jimmy Downs
Genetic variants linked to elevated obesity risk in children
A new study in Nature suggests that ...
Genetic variants linked to severe obesity
By Jimmy Downs
A new study suggests that obese people likely have some genetic alternations in certain genes or certain key segments of DNA that either ...
Obesity, dietary fats affect prostate cancer risk
A new study published in the Jul-Aug 2009 issue of Actas Urologicas Españolas suggests that being obese and eating too much of fats may raise ...
Obesity Linked to 100,000 Cancer Cases a Year
By Rachel Stockton
Yesterday, over and over again, the CNN news ticker read that obesity causes 100,000 cases of cancer per year.
Many publications and health ...
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