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Obesity Poll Method

Posted: Saturday, May 29, 2004

The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on attitudes about diet and obesity is based on telephone interviews with 1,000 randomly selected adults from all states except Alaska and Hawaii. The interviews were conducted May 17-19 by Ipsos-Public Affairs.

Results were weighted to represent the population by demographic factors such as age, sex, religion and education.

World Action On Obesity Agreed Upon

Posted: Saturday, May 29, 2004

The plan recommends people limit intake of sugar, fat and salt. It also recommends tighter controls on food marketing to children

Advocates Fear Obesity Strategy Blockage

Posted: Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Anti-obesity advocates said Tuesday they fear that a bloc of developing countries, led by Brazil, could derail the adoption this week of a global strategy to fight obesity and other diet- or exercise-related diseases worldwide.
Health ministers are scheduled to vote later this week on the adoption of the strategy, which sets out a range of global policy options for addressing obesity and its related diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer

New Anti-Obesity Device On Trial In Italy

Posted: Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Surgeons in Italy have started testing a novel way to combat the growing scourge of obesity -- a device implanted into patients that gives them the sensation of feeling full

Recent Findings Show How Obesity Kills

Posted: Friday, May 14, 2004

Research into the biology of fat is turning up some surprising new insights about how obesity kills. The weight of the evidence: It's the toxic mischief of the flesh itself. A series of recent discoveries suggests that all fat-storage cells churn out a stew of hormones and other chemical messengers that fine-tune the body's energy balance. But when spewed in vast amounts by cells swollen to capacity with fat, they assault many organs in ways that are bad for health.

Child Obesity Mainly Caused By Lack Of Exercise

Posted: Friday, April 16, 2004

Lack of physical activity found to be the most significant factor in contributing to childhood obesity, that from researchers who assessed the exercise and eating habits of nearly 900 children.

Diet and Exercise Helps Reverse Vascular Dysfunction in Obese Children

Posted: Friday, April 16, 2004

Obesity in children is associated with vascular dysfunction and wall thickening, early events in atherogenesis, but these harmful effects can be partially reversed with diet and exercise

Medical School Establishes Obesity Course

Posted: Saturday, April 10, 2004

Duke Medical School is setting up a course in treating obesity, saying that with nearly two thirds of Americans overweight, doctors need specialized knowledge of the condition.
Coursework will include the underlying causes of obesity and how to treat it.

New Effect of Leptin Discovered

Posted: Saturday, April 10, 2004

New studies show that the appetite-regulating hormone leptin causes rewiring of neurons in areas of the brain that regulate feeding behavior.

Obesity Takes 8 Years Off Diabetics' Life Expectancy

Posted: Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Eighty percent of people are overweight when they are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes so this research is very worrying. The researchers found that the average age of death for type 2 subjects with a BMI of 35 or greater was 70 years old, while the average for those with a BMI of 20-24 was 78 years old.