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Weight management/Obesity News

Fat-dissolving procedure risky

16/11/2009

French researchers are calling into question the safety of a cosmetic procedure that offers to melt away fat without surgery, exercise or pills.

 
 
 

Gut bacteria making you fat?

12/11/2009

Following a westernised diet with lots of sugar and carbohydrates caused almost instantaneous changes in the gut flora of mice – changes that caused the mice to become obese.

 
 
 

Getting fat? Blame gut bacteria

12/11/2009

Eating a Westernised diet with lots of sugar and carbohydrates caused almost instantaneous changes in the gut flora of mice - changes that caused the mice to become obese.

 
 
 

Teenage obesity linked to MS

10/11/2009

Teenage women who are obese may be more than twice as likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS) as adults, compared to female teens who are not obese.

 
 
 

Obesity causes 100 000 cancer cases

6/11/2009

Obesity causes more than 100 000 cases of cancer in the United States each year -- and the number will likely rise as Americans get fatter, researchers said.

 
 
 

'Boep' may be in the genes

6/11/2009

New research sheds light on the possible link between the genes you inherit and the size of your belly.

 
 
 

Nightclubs for plus-size people

28/10/2009

Move over, it's Saturday night at Club Bounce and people are bouncing onto the dance floor in a big, big way.

 
 
 

Docs have no respect for obese

26/10/2009

Mirroring a societal stigma against the obese, Johns Hopkins researchers report that doctors appear to have less respect for their heavy patients.

 
 
 

Does obesity start in the womb?

23/10/2009

Rresearch suggests that something in an obese woman's womb can program her foetus toward becoming a fat child and adult.

 
 
 

Be overweight and live longer

19/10/2009

Contrary to what was previously assumed, overweight is not increasing the overall death rate in the German population.

 
 
 
 

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