Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News From Medical News Today It's long been known that obesity is linked to increased risk of developing colon cancer, but now researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Minnesota have found that obesity is associated with worse outcomes in patients who have already been diagnosed and treated for the cancer...
Low-Income Women Living In Small Cities Have Higher Chance Of Obesity A recent Kansas State University study found that the availability of supermarkets -- rather than the lack of them -- increased the risk of obesity for low-income women living in small cities. This suggests that policies to increase ...
Link Between Obesity And Poor Colon Cancer Prognosis Obese patients with colon cancer are at greater risk for death or recurrent disease compared to those who are within a normal weight range, according to a report in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
Obesity As Protection Against Metabolic Syndrome, Not Its Cause The collection of symptoms that is the metabolic syndrome - insulin resistance, high cholesterol, fatty liver, and a greater risk for diabetes, heart disease, and stroke - are all related to obesity, but, according to a review in the March 9th ...
Light To Moderate Drinking Linked To Less Weight Gain In Middle Aged Women A new study from the US found that normal weight women in their 40s and older who drank a light to moderate amount of alcohol gained less weight and had a lower risk of becoming obese and overweight compared to their non-drinking counterparts...
Higher Fast Food Prices Lead To Lower Weight, Diabetes Risk A new study that followed participants for 20 years shows both weight and risk for diabetes decreased for people in communities where fast food prices increased. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study, published in the March 8, 2010, issue ...
Low Levels Of Vitamin D Linked To Muscle Fat, Decreased Strength In Young People There's an epidemic in progress, and it has nothing to do with the flu. A ground-breaking study published in the March 2010 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found an astonishing 59 per cent of study subjects had too little Vitamin D ...
Obesity Associated With Risk Of Colorectal Tumors Without Microsatellite Instability The increased risk of colorectal cancer associated with obesity may be largely restricted to tumors that have no or low microsatellite instability (MSI), a common condition in most colorectal cancers, according to a new study published online March 8 in ...
ReShape Medical Announces Initiation Of U.S. Clinical Study For Weight Loss ReShape Medical™, Inc. announced that it has initiated a U.S. Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) clinical study to assess the safety and effectiveness of its non-surgical, dual-balloon device for weight loss. The ReShape Balloons are ...
HHS Teams Up With Olympic Athletes To Fight Childhood Obesity U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the first in a series of web videos and public service announcements to promote First Lady Michelle Obama's national initiative, Let's Move, to solve childhood obesity within a generation. ...
Key Protein In Energy Regulation Identified By Gladstone Scientists With obesity and obesity-related diseases epidemic in the developed world, a clear understanding of how metabolism is regulated is crucial. One of the key metabolic pathways involves the oxidation of fat...
Weight-Loss Surgery Can Lead To Psychological Distress People who have gastric band surgery to lose weight are at risk of low self-esteem, relationship problems and being dissatisfied with their body image, according to new research being presented at the Diabetes UK Annual Professional Conference ...
