Disney backs Michelle Obama’s child obesity campaign (AFP)

AFP – The Walt Disney Company on Thursday threw its weight behind a campaign championed by US First Lady Michelle Obama to push back child obesity.

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Disney backs Michelle Obama’s child obesity campaign (AFP)

AFP – The Walt Disney Company on Thursday threw its weight behind a campaign championed by US First Lady Michelle Obama to push back child obesity.

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Heightened suicide risk after weight-loss surgery (Reuters)

Reuters – Severely obese people who undergo weight-loss surgery may have a higher-than-average risk of suicide in the years following the procedure, a new study finds.

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Faster Weight Gain as a baby continues into adulthood

Researchers have recently discovered that humans who feed babies nutrient-enriched milk have significant increases in body fat by the time they reach five to eight years of age. Funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), this research that was led by Professor Atul Singhal reviewed two different double-blind, randomized trials where babies were given a nutritionally-enhanced formula of milk and a standard formula.

The results then indicated that children who were given the enriched formula at five to eight years had more body fat as opposed to those who were given the standard formula; leading to the further conclusion that over-nutrition during infancy can lead to obesity later on in life.

This study takes into account several factors namely maternal BMI and points to the evidence that fat mass is 22 to 38 percent more in infants that are fed nutritionally enriched formula as opposed to those who were fed standard formula. What this study also reveals is that twenty percent of adult obesity can be traced back to excessive weight gain in infancy of which over-nutrition can be one of the causes.

Not only does this over-nutrition result in obesity at a later age but can also lead to a reduced lifespan as well. But the beauty of this study that this is the first time that anyone has obtained gold standard evidence that confirms the link between infant over-nutrition and obesity in the later year through a systematic controlled randomized double-blind trial while also taking into account the genetic tendency for overweight mother to give birth to overweight children.

Three squares may beat mini-meals for weight loss (Reuters)

Reuters – Sitting down to eat a real meal three times a day may be a better strategy for weight loss than grazing on several smaller “mini-meals,” new research shows.

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Explaining the Gender Gap: Obesity Costs Women a Lot More Than Men (Time.com)

Time.com – Explaining the Gender Gap: Obesity Costs Women a Lot More Than Men

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Obesity rates remain ‘disturbingly high’ (Reuters)

Reuters – Chances are slim to none that the U.S. will meet its public health goal of sharply reducing the number of obese adults by this year, according to federal health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

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Weight loss drug shows promise in clinical trial (Reuters)

Reuters – An experimental weight loss drug helped obese people lose more than 10 percent of their weight after two years in a clinical trial, but safety details were scant for the drug made by Vivus Inc, which in July was turned down by a panel of U.S. experts.

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Why Americans Are Fat: We Literally See More Food as Less (Time.com)

Time.com – One of the most peculiar findings in obesity research is that exercise — even if vigorous and regular — doesn’t reliably lead to weight loss.

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Stem cells, obesity finding lead Nobel predictions (Reuters)

Reuters – Researchers who discovered stem cells and the appetite hormone leptin, who proposed that dark energy is helping the universe expand and who developed “gene chips” are named in the 2010 Thomson Reuters predictions to win Nobel Prizes for medicine, physics and chemistry.

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