2006

May

• Maternal Choices May Increase Risk of Overweight Children -

• Eat Less, Weigh More? Enzyme Makes Lean Mice “Susceptible” to Dietary Fat -

• Stomach surgery may have a role in moderate obesity -

• Significant number of women believe their children are normal weight -

• Perception of Self Motivates Obese Children To Make Changes -

April

• More small children overweight, WHO finds -

• Unhealthy dieting may fuel weight gain in teens -

• Obesity and technology: Can the stomach be fooled? -

• Hormone injection curbs appetite and ups activity -

• Weight loss reduces frailty in obese older adults -

• Direct link between childhood obesity and junk food advertising -

• 25% of British school children are clinically obese -

• Bullying pushes overweight kids away from sport, increasing health problems -

• Common gene variation associated with an increased risk for obesity -

• Do the obese know they are obese? -

• Prevalence of obesity in the United States -

• The less a child sleeps, the more likely he or she is to become overweight -

• How “good” are those fries? It depends where you live! -

• Metabolism and Appetite Suppression Linked, Opening Door to Obesity Treatments -

• Adolescents with unhealthy weight-control behaviors more likely to be overweight five years later -

• Electrical stimulation of stomach curbs eating -

• Midlife Obesity Raises Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease Later -

• Vitamin C in the blood stream is directly related to fat oxidation -

• US women, but not men and kids, are curbing weight -

• Prevalence of Overweight Children, Teens and Men in U.S. Continues to Rise -

• Vegetarian diets most effective for weight loss -

• Most obese people don’t see themselves that way -

• Eating less may lead to a longer life -

• Body weight alone is not a sufficient indicator of higher risk of mortality in men -

March

• Vegetarian diets cause major weight loss without exercise or calorie counting -

• EU warns consumers about fake anti-obesity drug -

• Calcium and dairy unlikely to aid in weight loss -

• Americans eating more safely, study finds -

• Girls’ soda consumption linked to heavier weight -

• Study Tallies High Medical Claims Costs of Obesity -

• Formula feeding doesn’t make for heavy kids -

• Diabetics overestimate healthy body weight -

• Obesity ups migraine frequency and severity -

• Bottle-fed babies more likely to be obese children -

• Being obese or very slim increases male drivers’ risk of dying in a car crash -

• Child obesity levels expected to soar by 2010 -

• Genetic background to ravages of obesity -

• Obesity Increases Male Drivers’ Risk of Death in MV Crashes -

• Obese People Are More Sensitive to Pain -

February

• Report issues warning over UK obesity targets -

• Effect of artificial sweeteners in weight control and energy intake -

• Neighborhood may help prevent childhood obesity -

• Singulair pill shows more promise for obese people -

• Obesity May Influence Response to Asthma Medications -

• More time exercising not intensity results in long-term weight loss -

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