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Slow but Steady Wins the Weight Loss Battle for Andee Granados
Dr. Feiz's May patient ambassador wins by playing the long game against obesity It was long-term frustration that drove Andee Granados, Dr. Michael Feiz's May Patient Ambassador, to get lap...
Obesity Is American Issue, Not Political One
American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Comments on News NY Congressman Tom Reed had Gastric Bypass Surgery  CONTACT: Amber Hamilton ...
Move More, Eat Smarter: Simple Changes Could Help Reduce Obesity in Europe, Says Prof. James O. Hill, US Obesity Expert
LIVERPOOL, England, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- 14 May 2013 - European Congress on Obesity 2013 Small changes to daily physical activity and diet could help Europe's adults fight obe...
NJ Governor Chris Christie Sparks National Conversation On Obesity
American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Comments on What's Missing from the Conversation CONTACT: Amber Hamilton (21...
New "Treat Obesity Seriously" Effort Encourages Treatment of Obesity as a Serious Health Condition, Such as Heart Disease and Cancer
The Obesity Society Unveils Tools and Resources to Educate Policymakers and Support Healthcare Providers With two out of three adults in the United States considered obese or overweight[i] ...
Overweight Owners Lead Pets to Obesity
Richard French, DVM, M.S., Ph.D., Dean of Animal Studies and Allerton Chair of Animal Health Sciences at Becker College is urging pet owners to pursue healthy lifestyles. The bond between hu...
Surefire Infusion System Used In Potential New Hunger-Reducing Obesity Treatment -- NIH Funds Johns Hopkins Study
Minimally invasive treatment as an alternative to bariatric surgery on the horizon Surefire Medical, Inc., the developer of a new class of infusion systems designed to maximize targeted del...
Orexigen Therapeutics Commends the Campaign to End Obesity's Report on Long-term Returns of Obesity Prevention Policies
Regarding the report "The Long Term Returns of Obesity Prevention Policies" unveiled this week by the Campaign to End Obesity (CEO), Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OREX) issued the fol...
Facebook Interests Could Help Predict, Track And Map Obesity
Study correlates data on Facebook users' interests with obesity rates in cities and towns nationally and in New York City neighborhoods Relating proportion of television-related...
CBO Scoring Misses Billions of Dollars in Potential Long-Term Savings from Effective Obesity Prevention Policies, According to New Study
Longer-Term Scoring Would More Accurately Reflect Costs and Savings Current methods for estimating the costs and savings of federal health legislation miss billions of dollars in potential ...
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Childhood Abuse Increases Risk of Adult Obesity
Abused children are 36% more likely to be obese in adulthood compared to non-maltreated children, reveals a new study by King's College London. The authors estimate that the prevention or effective treatment of 7 cases of child maltreatment could avo...

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Gym Class Reduces Probability of Obesity
The amount of time that schoolchildren spent in the gym class was found to reduce the probability of obesity, finds study from Cornell University.

The study represents some of the first evidence of a causal effect of PE on youth ob...

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Obesity Ups Dementia Risk
Obesity fuels a big rise in the number of people with dementia in the future, say researchers.

According to data presented at the European Congress on Obesity, stemming the rise in obesity will cut down the risk of dementia, the BBC ...

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Study Says Smartphone App Helps Fight Obesity
A new smartphone application was found to be an useful slimming aid for the overweight, according to experts.

The app, designed by British doctors, aims at promoting "food memory" so that people recall what they have eaten and are enc...

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Novel Brown Fat Cell Helps Fight Obesity
Newly discovered brown fat cell has the unique property of being able to burn energy and turn it into heat, say researchers. According to Sven Enerback, who heads the country's leading research group in the study of fat cells and metabolism, this is ...

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