Category: Obesity Issues

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Obese men and women seeking weight-loss treatment report significantly less satisfaction with their sex life than the general population, and women report even lower satisfaction than men, according to the results of a Duke University Medical Center study.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – If 2011 incluDes weight-loss surgery consideration, bariatric experts at UT Southwestern Medical Center say that achieving lifelong results requires life-changing behavior and life-long attention to care.

(HealthNewsDigest.com)-A generous donation of Super Bowl tickets may score an unexpected goal-helping support community projects that focus on kids’ health.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – If a child is overweight or underweight, the first person a health care professional turns to is Mom. Mom is usually responsible for what is served at the dinner table and for what foods are brought into the home.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – An approach that attempted to prevent childhood obesity in African-American girls produced beneficial changes in cholesterol, diabetes risk and depressive symptoms but had little effect on youths’ weight, in a trial conducted by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – New Haven, Conn. – Young, overweight women are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors and are at significantly higher risk for sexually transmitted infections than their more slender peers, a new study by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The paper is published online in the journal AIDS and Behavior.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BUFFALO, NY – University at Buffalo researchers are adapting our innate interest in consuming a variety of foods, considered an evolutionary survival tactic, to develop new interventions to treat obesity in children.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – New Haven, Conn. – Efforts to curb childhood obesity through school vending machine restrictions and making soft drinks more expensive with low levels of additional taxation have had a negligible effect, to date, on the waistline of America’s youth, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The paper appears online in Health Affairs.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BUFFALO, N.Y. — Parents are acutely aware of the influence of friends on their children’s behavior — how they dress, how they wear their hair, whether they drink or smoke.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – HealthCorps®, a national proactive health movement founded by organization Chair Dr. Mehmet Oz, has announced the promising results of a two-year study on its in-school health mentoring program.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Obesity has long been associated with an increased risk of morbidity, including such conditions as diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, and certain types of cancer. Many studies have looked at the body mass index (BMI) in relation to various health effects. The BMI is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by the square of your height in meters. A convenient web-based calculator—allowing you to input these values in either metric or conventional units—is provided by the National Institutes of Health. [http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/]

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PITTSBURGH, – Elderly people who are overweight or obese tend to have less tissue in certain areas of the brain, suggesting they might be at greater risk for dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and other cognition-impairing conditions, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California Los Angeles.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PITTSBURGH, – Elderly people who are overweight or obese tend to have less tissue in certain areas of the brain, suggesting they might be at greater risk for dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and other cognition-impairing conditions, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California Los Angeles.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DURHAM, N.C. – A new look at a large database of prostate cancer patients shows that obesity plays no favorites when it comes to increasing the risk of recurrence after surgery: Being way overweight is equally bad for blacks and whites, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DURHAM, N.C. – A new look at a large database of prostate cancer patients shows that obesity plays no favorites when it comes to increasing the risk of recurrence after surgery: Being way overweight is equally bad for blacks and whites, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center.

(HealthNewsDigest.com)-Overweight children who shed extra pounds could avoid a number of health issues while also boosting their self-esteem.

(HealthNewsDigest.com)-Overweight children who shed extra pounds could avoid a number of health issues while also boosting their self-esteem.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ANN ARBOR, Mich. – With the epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States, there is concern that overweight and obese children need to be screened for chronic medical conditions, including high cholesterol levels.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ANN ARBOR, Mich. – With the epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States, there is concern that overweight and obese children need to be screened for chronic medical conditions, including high cholesterol levels.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The health cost of obesity in the United States is as high as $147 billion annually, based on a new study from Research Triangle Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study which appears online today in the journal Health Affairs, was released at CDC’s Weight of the Nation conference in Washington, DC.