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More gym for kids means less chance of obesity, Cornell study says
More physical education in kindergarten through fifth grade means less chance of obesity, especially for boys, researchers say. The study provides some of the first evidence of a causal effect between gym and childhood obesity. It is to be published...
Tags: Weight, Science and Technology, Schools, Elementary Schools, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder linked to adult obesity
Having childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could lead to a life of obesity, even if ADHD symptoms disappear in adulthood, a new study shows. The study, which followed up on 207 middle-class men who had been diagnosed with ADHD as...
Tags: Social Sciences, Culture, Weight, Medical Research, Symptoms
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Jackson used vocal aid in concerts, choreographer says
Michael Jackson sometimes sang during concerts accompanied by his own recorded vocal track to help him perform the most physically strenuous numbers, the choreographer for what was to be his comeback shows in London testified Monday. What is known as...
Tags: Procedural Sedation, Propofol (drug), Michael Jackson, Rentals, Michael Jackson Comeback Tour (2009)
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Letters: The fine print of obesity surgery
Re "What we should learn from the 1-800-GET-THIN saga," Column, April 21 Readers should not be left with the impression that patients who underwent weight-loss surgery after seeing an advertisement on a billboard were unaware of the risks. Those...Tags: Weight, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Obesity
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Food memories may aid weight loss, researchers say
Dieters may want to forget episodes of falling off the wagon, but researchers say an attentive memory for what is eaten could help people eat less at their next meals. So sitting at a movie with a bucket of popcorn holding perhaps a day’s worth of...
Tags: Weight, Science and Technology
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Food deserts may not be key in what people eat, study says
There’s no strong evidence of an association between living within walking distance of places to buy food and being overweight or not, researchers said after interviewing nearly 100,000 Californians. Given the attention to the idea of food deserts...
Tags: Weight, Science and Technology, Overweight, Medical Research, Obesity
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Low-fat milk doesn't help toddlers' weight, study says UPDATED
This post has been updated to include comments from a researcher and an American Heart Assn. spokeswoman. Giving toddlers skim or 1% milk to keep them from growing overweight doesn’t seem to work, according to a study out Monday that gives pause...
Tags: Healthy Diet, Weight, American Heart Association, Medical Procedures and Tests, Milk
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Nursing longer doesn't protect against obesity, study says
Getting moms to nurse their babies longer and exclusively did not mean the kids were less at risk for obesity by the time they were 11-1/2 – despite suggestions from other studies that breastfeeding can protect against obesity, researchers in a...
Tags: Weight, Nursing, Science and Technology, Belarus, Medical Research
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Are only children to blame for the obesity crisis?
A new study suggests an intriguing explanation for the rise in obesity rates — the growing number of only children. Researchers from Denmark analyzed health records of more than 29,000 Danish schoolchildren and found that boys and girls without...
Tags: Research, Weight, Science and Technology, Medical Research, Obesity
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Gap widens between actual weight and people's imagined weight
Men and women, particularly those categorized as obese, have grown increasingly likely over the years to underestimate their true weight, according to a recent study. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers at University...
Tags: Weight, Overweight, Obesity
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Diet myth-busters: Experts burst some bubbles about losing weight
Attention dieters: Many of the “facts” you think you know about obesity and weight loss are wrong. So says a report published in Thursday’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. An international team of dietitians, doctors...
Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Weight, Weight Loss, Diets and Dieting, Arts and Culture
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Study finds link between high fructose corn syrup, Type 2 diabetes
Researchers from USC and the University of Oxford say they have found an association between countries that have more high fructose corn syrup in their food supply and those that have higher rates of diabetes. Countries with higher use of HFCS had an...
Tags: Weight, Health and Safety at School, Malaysia, Food Industry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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