Overweight & Obesity
Just because you're thin, it doesn't mean you're healthy
According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 63% of Australian adults are overweight or obese.
Sep 27, 2018
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Overweight & Obesity
Strength-based exercises could help child obesity fight, study finds
Encouraging young people to do strength-based exercises—such as squats, push ups and lunges—could play a key role in tackling child obesity, research suggests.
Sep 19, 2018
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Health
It's eating fat that makes you fat, new mouse study suggests
Worldwide obesity has tripled since 1975, with 1.9 billion adults considered overweight. The condition now kills more people across the globe than underweight and malnutrition.
Sep 5, 2018
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Health
Fish oil supplement in pregnancy is linked to increase in lean and bone mass by age six years
Fish oil supplement in the later stages of pregnancy is associated with a higher body mass index (BMI) in children in the first six years of life, which is explained by an increase in total lean and bone mass at 6 years of ...
Sep 4, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Men and women are different: Why medical oncology needs to restate the obvious
Gender-based approaches to studying and treating disease have remained largely unexplored in medical oncology, despite the field's growing interest in precision medicine and accumulating evidence that sex is a major factor ...
Aug 28, 2018
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Cardiology
Researchers develop more accurate measure of body fat
Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed a simpler and more accurate method of estimating body fat than the widely used body mass index, or BMI, with the goal of better understanding obesity.
Aug 27, 2018
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Overweight & Obesity
How to beat the 'freshman five' weight gain
There is a widespread belief that a young adult's college years are accompanied by weight gain —the so called "freshman five."
Aug 24, 2018
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Health
Six steps for promoting heart health in women
(HealthDay)—While the total number of U.S. deaths from heart disease has declined in recent years, it has stayed the same for younger women.
Aug 21, 2018
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Diabetes
Diabetes in bay area Chinese population linked to fat fibrosis
A new UC San Francisco study has discovered a key biological difference in how people of European and Chinese descent put on weight—a finding that could help explain why Asians often develop type 2 diabetes at a much lower ...
Aug 6, 2018
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Medical research
New study finds that fat consumption is the only cause of weight gain
Scientists from the University of Aberdeen and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have undertaken the largest study of its kind looking at what components of diet—fat, carbohydrates or protein—caused mice to gain weight.
Jul 13, 2018
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