Report: Obesity hurts your wallet and your health (AP)

AP – Obesity puts a drag on the wallet as well as health, especially for women.

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Obesity and blindness researchers win U.S. Lasker awards (Reuters)

Reuters – Researchers who discovered a hormone intimately linked to obesity, who found a protein linked to a common form of blindness and who worked on genetic blood diseases won the 2010 Lasker awards on Tuesday.

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Prizes honor studies in vision loss, obesity (AP)

AP – Three scientists have won prestigious medical prizes — one for devising a treatment for a major cause of vision loss and two for laying the groundwork for an explosion in obesity research.

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Kids Exposed to Strain of Cold Virus More Likely to be Obese (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com – Children exposed to a particular strain of a common cold virus are more likely to be obese than those not exposed, a new study suggests.

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Gastric Band Surgery Rising Among Obese Teens (HealthDay)

HealthDay – MONDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) — More overweight teenagers are undergoing laparoscopic gastric band surgery, a weight-loss procedure that isn’t approved for anyone under 18 years old, a new study finds.

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Childhood Obesity Might Be Linked to Strain of Cold Virus (HealthDay)

HealthDay – MONDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) — At least part of the blame for childhood obesity might be traced to a unexpected cause — a certain strain of the virus that causes the common cold.

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Obese Teens Prefer Gastric Bands over Gastric Bypass (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com – Teens undergoing weight-loss surgery in California are increasingly opting for adjustable gastric band procedures instead of stomach-shrinking gastric bypass surgeries, a new study finds.

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Why White Girls Are Getting More Weight Loss Surgery (Time.com)

Time.com – Why White Girls Are Getting More Weight Loss Surgery

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Q&A: Jackie Warner on Weight Loss and Healthy Eating (Time.com)

Time.com – Celebrity fitness trainer Jackie Warner talks to TIME about her weight-loss regimen, eating healthy and her new Bravo show Thintervention

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More teens get unapproved weight-loss surgery (Reuters)

Reuters – A type of weight-loss surgery not approved for adolescents is becoming more and more common among teens in California, according to a report published today.

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