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Health advocates need to organize strong public health campaigns to educate the public and policymakers about the dangers of both sugary beverages and the misleading industry corporate social responsibility campaigns that distract from their products' health risks, according to US experts writing in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-soda-companies-pr-campaigns-bad.html Health Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:53:01 EST news259347176 Funding pressures and the rise of chronic illnesses such as heart disease are the top "danger zones" for global health in 2012, the head of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, said on Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-chan-funding.html Health Mon, 21 May 2012 12:49:53 EST news256823383 (AP) -- In the battle against obesity, just about everything is on the table, from creating healthier kids' meals to nagging people to exercise. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-table-obesity.html Health Tue, 08 May 2012 04:07:30 EST news255668837 Researchers have forecast the cost savings and rise in obesity prevalence over the next two decades in a new public health study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-obesity-billion-decades.html Health Mon, 07 May 2012 11:50:01 EST news255605512 Humans are built to hunger for fat, packing it on during times of feast and burning it during periods of famine. But when deluged by foods rich in fat and sugar, the modern waistline often far exceeds the need to store energy for lean times, and the result has been an epidemic of diabetes, heart disease and other obesity-related problems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-feast-famine-metabolic-diabetes-treatment.html Medical research Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:19:06 EST news254564308 (HealthDay) -- After two decades of steadily increasing rates of childhood obesity, at least one state may finally be turning things around. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-childhood-obesity-epidemic-ebbing.html Pediatrics Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:10:01 EST news254483404 Nearly 18 percent of U.S. school-aged children and adolescents are obese, as the rate of childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. The prevalence of obesity puts children at greater risk of developing heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke and other illnesses, and of suffering severe obesity as adults. New study results indicate that where a child lives, including factors such as the neighborhood's walkability, proximity to higher quality parks, and access to healthy food, has an important effect on obesity rates. Researchers found that children living in neighborhoods with favorable neighborhood environment attributes had 59 percent lower odds of being obese. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-code-important-genetic-childhood-obesity.html Health Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:43:10 EST news253294981 In order for the nation to achieve goals set by the federal government for reducing obesity rates by 2020, children in the United States would need to eliminate an average of 64 excess calories per day, researchers calculated in a study published today in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. This reduction could be achieved by decreasing calorie intake, increasing physical activity, or both. Without this reduction, the authors predict that the average U.S. youth would be nearly four pounds heavier than a child or teen of the same age was in 2007-2008, and more than 20% of young people would be obese, up from 16.9% today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-calories-childhood-obesity-goals.html Health Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:06 EST news253207993 Sweat drips down the face of a plump woman as she shuffles between exercise machines and pauses to greet passersby in Soweto's first outdoor gym, a new trend in South Africa, one of the world's fattest nations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-outdoor-gyms-fat-south-africa.html Health Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:21:53 EST news252818500 Improving or maintaining physical fitness appears to help obese and overweight children reach a healthy weight, reports a new study from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Researchers analyzed four years of data from in-school fitness tests and body mass index (BMI) measurements of students in grades 1-7 in the city of Cambridge, Mass. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-in-school-overweight-boys-girls-benefit.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:35:47 EST news252754267 Everything you know about dieting is wrong, say US scientists who have devised a new formula for calculating calories and weight loss that they hope will revolutionize the way people tackle obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-dieting-wrong-scientists.html Health Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:10:01 EST news248936148 A UCLA study has found that a new parent-training program is effective in reducing the risk of low-income, preschool-age Latino children being overweight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-parent-training-intervention-curbs-pediatric-obesity.html Health Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:56:59 EST news248547413 New research has found that the US government and schools have made mixed progress to comprehensively address food and beverage marketing practices that put young people's health at risk. A comprehensive review published in the March issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine finds that public sector stakeholders have failed to fully implement recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to support a healthful diet to children and adolescents. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-schools-food-children-diets.html Health Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:15:21 EST news248415315 Kids treated more than 150 days after an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury have higher rates of other knee injuries, including medial meniscal tears, say researchers presenting at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Specialty Day in San Francisco, CA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-acl-reconstruction-kids-higher-knee.html Other Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:28:10 EST news248174873 We are getting fatter - no matter which way we look at it, a Deakin University analysis of two popular obesity testing methods has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-fatter.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:03:06 EST news247474952 Individuals who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. This is according to a new study by Hannah Gardener and her colleagues from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and at Columbia University Medical Center. However, in contrast, they found that regular soft drink consumption and a more moderate intake of diet soft drinks do not appear to be linked to a higher risk of vascular events. The research appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, published by Springer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-potential-link-daily-consumption-diet.html Health Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:15:48 EST news247227337 Doris Chang limits her three sons' intake of sweets and doesn't feed them any processed or frozen food. At their Manhattan Beach, Calif., home, she monitors the boys' time in front of the television and keeps them busy with baseball, basketball and karate. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-cities-vast-gap-child-obesity.html Health Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:21:01 EST news245006453 New research from the University of Michigan suggests obesity can be seen as one of the unintended side effects of free market policies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-supersized-economy-belly-wealthier-nations.html Health Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:00:02 EST news243690192 Imagine this scene: A teen who is about to enter college goes for a run or heads off for a game of soccer. But Mom and Dad complain about it, and the more physically active the teen is, the more the parents push back against it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-mexican-parents-discourage-teens-physical.html Health Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:59:16 EST news242326746 British women and Maltese men topped European obesity rates according to data released Thursday that also undermined popular belief that all French women are thin. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-british-women-obesity-french-arent.html Health Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:24:44 EST news241341872 A new study released today offers hope that California may finally be getting a handle on its 30-year battle with childhood obesity, but it also showcases a patchwork of progress that leaves the majority of the state's counties still registering increases in obesity rates among school-age children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-california-headway-childhood-obesity-successes.html Health Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:23:53 EST news240078226 The percentage of Americans who are overweight or obese fell slightly in the third quarter of this year, but they still make up a majority of the population, a Gallup poll showed Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-obesity-america.html Health Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:26:32 EST news237223584 An estimated 366 million people worldwide now suffer from diabetes and the global epidemic is getting worse, health officials said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-experts-million-people-diabetes.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:44:26 EST news235140248 The majority of people who undergo bariatric weight-loss surgery benefit from the procedure, but long-term complications and further surgery are not uncommon, according to a UK paper on late postoperative complications in the October issue of BJS, the British Journal of Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-weight-loss-surgery-complications-standard-obesity.html Other Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:51:53 EST news234525091 The rising prevalence of obesity around the globe places an increasing burden on the health of populations, on healthcare systems and on overall economies. A major challenge for researchers is to quantify the effect of these burdens to inform public policies. Using a simulation model to project the probable health and economic consequences from rising obesity rates in the United States and the United Kingdom, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Oxford University forecast 65 million more obese adults in the U. S. and 11 million more in the U.K. by 2030, leading to millions of additional cases of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer. The findings suggest that medical costs associated with treatment of these preventable diseases in the U.S. alone will increase by $48-66 billion per year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-million-obese-adults-uk.html Health Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:07:44 EST news233597237 In an age of spiraling inactivity levels and escalating obesity rates across the planet, a new collection of research articles focused on participation in sport and physical activity across the lifespan has just been released. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-physical-sport-traverses-lifespan.html Health Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:39:55 EST news232976377 Around a sixth of fast food customers used calorie information and, on average, bought food with lower calories since the introduction of a labelling system in the US, says a new study published in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-fast-food-customers-calories-food-introduction.html Health Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:30:04 EST news230919190 Preschool children consumed nearly twice as many vegetables and 11 percent fewer calories over the course of a day when researchers Penn State added pureed vegetables to the children's favorite foods. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-vegetables-kids-foods-vegetable-intake.html Health Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:23:14 EST news230818986 (AP) -- Michelle Obama's campaign against childhood obesity moved a step forward Wednesday with the announcement that Wal-Mart and other retailers plan over the next five years to open or expand 1,500 stores in areas without easy access to fresh fruit, vegetables and other healthy foods. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-retailers-fresh_1.html Health Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:41:17 EST news230438467 (AP) -- Michelle Obama's campaign against childhood obesity moved a step forward Wednesday with the announcement that Wal-Mart and other retailers plan to open or expand 1,500 stores in areas without broad access to fresh fruit, vegetables and other healthy foods over the next few years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-retailers-fresh.html Health Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:01:09 EST news230396451