Overweight and obesity often continue for generations in families. The links can be genetic, but are also related to family relationships and lifestyle habits.
Nov 21, 2018
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A largescale genomic analysis has found the strongest evidence yet that being overweight causes depression, even in the absence of other health problems.
Nov 13, 2018
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Led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society, the research suggests a BMI of between 21-25kg/m2 is associated with the lowest risk of dying from cancer and ...
Oct 30, 2018
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Evaluating the gut microbiota of infants may help identify children who are at risk for becoming overweight or obese, according to results from a recent study published in mBio. The research revealed that gut microbiota composition ...
Oct 23, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Individuals who develop diabetes or prediabetes have elevated fasting plasma glucose (FPG) at least 10 years before diagnosis, according to an observational study recently published in the Journal of the Endocrine ...
Oct 22, 2018
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For over a century, we have relied on a simplistic measure to determine if someone is a "healthy" weight or not. This is the body mass index (BMI) – the ratio of a person's weight to the square of their height. The limits ...
Oct 12, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Adolescents with severe obesity achieve substantial and sustainable weight loss with sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and gastric bypass procedures but not with gastric banding, according to a study published in the ...
Oct 11, 2018
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in five US school-age children and young people ages 6 to 19 years suffers from obesity, a tripling of such numbers since the 1970s. For individual children, ...
Oct 9, 2018
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A healthy home environment could help offset children's genetic susceptibilities to obesity, according to new research led by UCL.
Oct 9, 2018
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New research presented at this year's annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Berlin, Germany, reveals that weight gain between the age of 10 and adulthood is associated with type 2 ...
Oct 2, 2018
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