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Young men who are obese in their early 20s are significantly more likely to develop serious ill health by the time they reach middle age, or not even make it that far, suggests research published in the online journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-obesity-early-20s-curbs-chances.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:56:10 EST news286480564 In a small study of 39 primary care doctors and 208 of their patients, Johns Hopkins researchers have found that physicians built much less of an emotional rapport with their overweight and obese patients than with their patients of normal weight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-physicians-bond-overweight-patients.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:05:05 EST news285869099 (HealthDay)—Although you might think being a member of the "clean plate club" is something that stops when a child is young, new research suggests that up to two-thirds of parents still encourage teenagers to finish all the food on their plates, even if the teen is overweight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-plate-parents-backfire-kids.html Pediatrics Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:17:40 EST news285844654 Overweight and obese women are more likely to require specialist medical care during their pregnancy due to the increased risk of adverse neonatal and maternal outcomes, finds a new study published today (27 March) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-overweight-obese-women-higher-adverse.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:00:03 EST news283541626 Obese drivers are significantly more likely to die in a road traffic collision than people of normal weight, indicates US research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-obese-die-car-weight-drivers.html Health Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:30:01 EST news278007660 (HealthDay)—Women who are overweight or obese should gain less weight during pregnancy than moms-to-be of normal weight, according to new recommendations by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-overweight-scale-weight-gain-pregnancy.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:38:24 EST news275290681 In a new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, researchers have quantified how many years of life are gained by being physically active at different levels, among all individuals as well as among various groups with different body mass index. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-quantify-years-life-gained-physically.html Health Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:00:20 EST news271417245 Medical researchers at the University of Alberta studied the records of nearly 1000 patients who were admitted to hospital with pneumonia and noted those who were obese were more apt to survive compared to those who were of normal weight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-overweight-patients-hospitalized-pneumonia-apt.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:33:19 EST news271355589 Obese kids have less sensitive taste-buds than kids of normal weight, indicates research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-obese-children-sensitive-taste-buds-weight.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:30:05 EST news267290884 People who are of normal weight but have fat concentrated in their bellies have a higher death risk than those who are obese, according to Mayo Clinic research presented today at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Munich. Those studied who had a normal body mass index but central obesity—a high waist-to-hip ratio—had the highest cardiovascular death risk and the highest death risk from all causes, the analysis found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-people-weight-belly-fat-highest.html Cardiology Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:59:15 EST news265287545 They're everywhere -- in magazines, on the Internet, on television—people with super-thin bodies who are presented as having the ideal body form. But despite the increasing pressure to be thin, more and more of us are overweight. Now, researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have found that normal weight teens who perceive themselves as fat are more likely to grow up to be fat. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-fat.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:42:12 EST news263644909 Participants in a study who were normal weight at the time of a diagnosis of diabetes experienced higher rates of total and noncardiovascular death compared with those who were overweight or obese at diabetes diagnosis, according to a study in the August 8 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-death-diabetes-diagnosis-weight-overweight.html Diabetes Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:00:04 EST news263568142 Women who are obese continue to have higher levels of oestrogen than women of normal weight even after treatment with hormone-suppressing drugs, raising the possibility that they might benefit from changes to their treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-obesity-affect-response-breast-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:00:09 EST news261672835 An evaluation of national data by UC Davis researchers has found that extra weight is not necessarily linked with a higher risk of death. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-above-normal-weight-short-term-death.html Health Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:43:28 EST news260818998 (HealthDay) -- Levels of certain gut bacteria and low protein intake may raise children's risk of being obese, new research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-gut-bugs-child-odds-obesity.html Health Thu, 10 May 2012 17:50:01 EST news255885088 (Phys.org) -- Obese drivers are far less likely to wear seatbelts than are drivers of normal weight, a new University at Buffalo study has found, a behavior that puts them at greater risk of severe injury or death during motor vehicle crashes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-deadly-decision-obese-drivers-buckle.html Health Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:10:01 EST news254732049 Obese white teenage girls who lose weight may benefit physically, but the weight change does not guarantee they are going to feel better about themselves, according to a Purdue University study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-weight-loss-wont-necessarily-teen.html Health Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:43:23 EST news251631729 Overweight or obese children are at three times greater risk for high blood pressure than children of normal weight, according to researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-overweight-obese-kids-greater-high.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:12:54 EST news236880765 A survey of nearly 4,000 Americans finds that obese women reported significantly worse health than obese men. Blacks who were overweight also reported better health than blacks in the normal or obese weight categories. Respondents were divided into three categories: normal, overweight, or obese, according to their height and weight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-extra-weight-equals-health-related-quality.html Health Tue, 31 May 2011 11:37:23 EST news226060623