http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. An EU-funded project has developed a device which can predict sugar highs and lows for people with diabetes and provide them with advice on how to manage their glucose levels. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-diabetes-ingenuity.html Diabetes Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:17:21 EST news283418233 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 Clogged arteries and sedentary lifestyles have replaced germs as the world's leading killers. Where hunger once held much of the world in its grip, the 1.6 billion overweight and obese now outnumber the malnourished by nearly 2-to-1. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-obesity-consequences-rapidly-world.html Health Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:50:02 EST news278689633 (Medical Xpress)—When the going gets tough, grape seed extract gets going: A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cancer Letters shows that the more advanced are colorectal cancer cells, the more GSE inhibits their growth and survival. On the other end of the disease spectrum, GSE leaves healthy cells alone entirely. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-colorectal-cancer-aggressive-treatment-grape.html Cancer Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:48:15 EST news277642082 Researchers at UCLA say it's not just what you eat that makes those pants tighter—it's also genetics. In a new study, scientists discovered that body-fat responses to a typical fast-food diet are determined in large part by genetic factors, and they have identified several genes they say may control those responses. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-genes-obesity-fast-food-isnt.html Medical research Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:00:01 EST news276862092 One of the world's most body-conscious countries, Brazil is now threatened by growing obesity rates, with half of the population already overweight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-body-conscious-brazil-overweight.html Overweight and Obesity Fri, 07 Sep 2012 04:10:01 EST news266208987 Children who spend more than three-quarters of their time engaging in sedentary behaviour, such as watching TV and sitting at computers, have up to nine times poorer motor coordination than their more active peers, reveals a study published in the American Journal of Human Biology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-children-physical-counteract-sedentary-lifestyles.html Health Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:01 EST news264166095