http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Getting enough exercise is a big challenge for a lot of people. The solution: an app that provides personal activity tips at the right times. That concludes Yuzhong Lin in her doctoral research at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). She has developed a mobile phone app that gives users tips on ways they can get more exercise, based on their location and lifestyle. Test subjects said they felt much more active after using the app. Lin defends her thesis at TU/e on Tuesday 2 April. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-smart-app-lifestyle.html Health Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:10:01 EST news283762734 The level of education of parents has an influence on the frequency with which their children eat foods linked to obesity. The children of parents with low and medium levels of education eat fewer vegetables and fruit and more processed products and sweet drinks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-better-educated-parents-children-fats-sugar.html Health Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:02:18 EST news283600932 Brazil launched a campaign Tuesday to combat the ballooning waistlines of its population—a trend it said costs nearly $250 million each year in treatment of obesity-related diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-brazil-combat-obesity.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:37:38 EST news282933452 Overweight and obese children in low-income households can meet or exceed the Expert Committee Recommendations Regarding the Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment of Childhood and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity when given access to a structured weight management program, according to a new study published in Academic Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-weight-loss-kids-low-income-families.html Pediatrics Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:02 EST news282333132 (HealthDay)—Breast-feeding has many benefits, but preventing overweight and obesity later in a child's life probably isn't among them, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-breast-feeding-wont-pre-teen-obesity.html Health Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:20:01 EST news282333268 In research that included nearly 14,000 healthy infants in Belarus, an intervention that succeeded in improving the duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding during infancy did not result in a lower risk of overweight or obesity among the children at age 11.5 years, according to a study appearing in the March 13 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-duration-breastfeeding-infancy-child-overweight.html Health Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:01:33 EST news282322883 Weight loss—by dietary changes alone or combined with physical exercise—has a positive impact on the production of adipose tissue hormones: Adipose tissue produces less leptin but, instead, more adiponectin, which counteracts diabetes and cancer. This explains, at a molecular level, the health-promoting effect of physical exercise and dietary changes. Heidelberg cancer researchers have published their results in collaboration with colleagues from the US. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-healthier-hormones-diet.html Health Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:23:14 EST news281877785 Over eating, sedentary lifestyles, cultural attitudes, and lack of prevention programmes are to blame for the rising epidemic of obesity in the Asia Pacific region. Overweight and obesity has quadrupled in China and societies still label people of healthy weight as poor. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-epidemic-obesity-asia-pacific-region.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:30:01 EST news280605510 (HealthDay)—Risk factors for chronic disease seem to be common in Vietnam, and include high blood pressure, increasing overweight and obesity, tobacco and alcohol use, and inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption, according to a study published online Jan. 10 in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Preventing Chronic Disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-factors-chronic-disease-vietnam.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:20:01 EST news279175134 (HealthDay)—For the first time ever, the American Academy of Pediatrics has issued guidelines for the management of type 2 diabetes in children and teenagers aged 10 to 18. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-first-ever-guidelines-issued-diabetes-kids.html Diabetes Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:34:58 EST news278591688 (Medical Xpress)—With New Year's resolutions upon us, new research from the University of Alberta offers encouragement for parents who want to achieve fitness for the whole family. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-parents-big-kids-physical.html Health Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:11:00 EST news277366243 While the number of overweight and obese Americans has increased, the amount of weight counseling offered by primary care physicians has decreased—especially for patients with high blood pressure and diabetes—according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-weight-decreases-obesity.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:42:54 EST news276885768 Researchers from The University of Auckland have announced the results of a recent study showing that overweight and obesity in New Zealand costs the country between NZ$722 million and NZ$849 million a year in health care costs and lost productivity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-obesity.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:37:57 EST news274433868 Asian-American children have been at low risk for being overweight or obese compared to other racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., but that may be changing. Yet as rates of overweight and obesity rise, the risk appears to vary depending on the Asian country of origin, according to an article in Childhood Obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-group-asian-american-children-highest-obesity.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:57:48 EST news273423455 Could the emergency room be a good place to spot undiagnosed eating disorders among teens, and help steer them to treatment? A new study from the University of Michigan suggests that could be the case. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-disorders-teen-er-patients-opportunity.html Health Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:44:10 EST news272544240 It's no secret that obesity is a major problem in America. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-medical-schools-fall-short-students.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:22:12 EST news270919322 (Medical Xpress)—Nearly 31 percent of the adult population of Indiana reports being obese, ranking the state eighth worst nationally in terms of percentage of population severely overweight, says a new study by Ball State University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-reveals-percent-hoosiers-obese-indiana.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:33:42 EST news269595195 A new National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study conducted at Baruch College and published in Obesity found that overweight and obese adults who participated in three different weight loss treatments, all involving intensive, multi-component counseling delivered in groups, lost significant weight after 48 weeks whether the treatment was led by a health professional or by someone who had previous weight loss success. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-group-based-weight-loss-treatment-effective.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:20:01 EST news268914078 Cutting screen time and not rewarding children's good behaviour with sweets are among the steps parents could take to reduce overweight and obesity in children before they start school, according to research by the University of Sydney. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-obesity-dont-sweets-reward-children.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:26:56 EST news268385194 Obese adults with excess visceral fat (fat located inside the abdominal cavity, around the body's internal organs) and biomarkers of insulin resistance had an associated increased risk for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus, while obese individuals with higher amounts of total body fat and subcutaneous fat (underneath the skin) did not have this increased risk, according to a study in the September 19 issue of JAMA, and theme issue on obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-obese-adults-excess-abdominal-fat.html Diabetes Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:04:00 EST news267185033 (Medical Xpress)—A high fat diet may damage the part of the brain that controls appetite and energy expenditure which in turn dictates our weight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-high-fat-diet-hypothalamus.html Medical research Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:47:16 EST news266568427 (Medical Xpress)—Scientists investigate whether food addiction should be classed as a mental disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-food-addiction-similar-terms-drug.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:53:52 EST news266223221 Eating disorders are increasingly overlooked in Australia because society is too focused on obesity prevention, a leading Flinders University psychologist says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-disorders-radar.html Health Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:07:35 EST news264758837 (HealthDay) -- Teens who play on three or more sports teams are much less likely to be overweight or obese than their peers who don't play a sport, new research finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-sports-kids-slimmer.html Pediatrics Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:10:01 EST news261678768 (HealthDay) -- There were both good and bad trends in the overall health of Americans in 2011, a new government report shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-health-americans-bag-cdc.html Health Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:56:51 EST news259318580 The world population is over seven billion and all of these people need feeding. However, the energy requirement of a species depends not only on numbers but on its average mass. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Public Health has estimated the total mass of the human population, defined its distribution by region, and the proportion of this biomass due to the overweight and obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-weight-nations-adult-human-biomass.html Health Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:00:01 EST news259149118 Most children and youth who consume soft drinks and other sweetened beverages, such as fruit punch and lemonade, are not at any higher risk for obesity than their peers who drink healthy beverages, says a new study published in the October issue of Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism. The study examined the relationship between beverage intake patterns of Canadian children and their risk for obesity and found sweetened beverage intake to be a risk factor only in boys aged 6-11. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-soft-consumption-major-contributor-childhood.html Health Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:04:49 EST news258904843 Several medical organizations have recently recommended that doctors switch from using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth curves to the World Health Organization (WHO) growth curves to better determine overweight and obesity in children in Canada aged 5 years. However, a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) shows no advantage in using one over the other. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-growth-distinct-advantage-cdc.html Health Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:40:06 EST news255016256 (HealthDay) -- The prevalence of obesity, inadequate exercise, and poor diet among prisoners may put them at risk for non-communicable diseases (NCDS), according to a review published online April 20 in The Lancet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-prisoners-non-communicable-diseases.html Health Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:50:01 EST news254149908 One out of every two women of reproductive age is overweight or obese. Researchers from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, from the University of Ottawa (faculties of Medicine and Health Sciences) and from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute set out to discover if overweight or obese women are in fact more likely to give birth to above average weight babies, as reported in the Journal of Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-excessive-weight-gain-pregnancy-predictor.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:14:16 EST news253876444