Weight Guides
Mothers’ weight anxiety heavy load for kids
By Jessica Heslam
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Mothers who frown upon those extra pounds take note:
Youngsters whose moms worry about their kids’ weight are more likely to diet and obsess about being thin, a new Hub study found.
But don’t just blame mother. Thin celebrities and...
Drinkers ‘less likely to be obese’
Press Association
Monday December 5, 2005 3:08 AM
Drinking alcohol in small amounts regularly could mean you are less likely to become obese than if you do not drink at all, new research suggests.
The US study, published in the journal BMC Public Health, may appear to contradict the...
No-foods-barred diet feeds cravings to lose II
By Brock Vergakis
ASSOCIATED PRESS
December 5, 2005
"It astonished me, actually," said his friend, Steven Peck. "We were both very heavy. It was hard not to be struck."
After watching Mr. Hawks lose and keep the weight off for a year and a half, Mr. Peck tried intuitive eating in...
No-foods-barred diet feeds cravings to lose I
By Brock Vergakis
ASSOCIATED PRESS
December 5, 2005
SALT LAKE CITY -- Who says you have to eat lettuce when you want chocolate?
Not Steven Hawks. When he's tempted by ice cream bars, M&Ms and toffee-covered almonds at the grocery store, he doesn't pass them by. He fills up his...
Why lost weight can creep back on
NEW YORK (BBC Health News) -- Scientists have discovered why it is often harder to keep weight off than to lose it in the first place.
A team at New York's Columbia University has shown the key is falling levels of the hormone leptin, which controls appetite.
They found that giving people...
Hormone injection key to fighting obesity
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
Published: 02 December 2005
Every dieter knows that shedding excess pounds is far simpler than maintaining a new slimline self. Now Obesity specialists at Columbia University claim to have remedied the problem. They say that by restoring the hormone leptin...
Obesity big enough for both of us, hospitals say
Cleveland Clinic may be advertising its bariatric surgery in UPMC's back yard, but there are still plenty of candidates to go around
Sunday, December 04, 2005
By Christopher Snowbeck, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A battle of the bulge is brewing between hospitals in Pittsburgh and Cleveland...
Obesity stops jabs hitting target
Injecting drugs into the buttocks may not be a reliable way of administering medicine, research suggests.
Doctors from a hospital in Dublin found many patients had so much fleshy tissue on their buttocks that jabs could not properly penetrate to the muscle.
They found women, and in...
Being ‘fat’ may not be a health risk
IAN JOHNSTON
PEOPLE who are officially classed as overweight are not necessarily putting their health at risk and going on a diet could be dangerous, according to new research.
A row has been raging after a controversial US study earlier this year found that those deemed to be overweight...
Most obese New Yorkers don’t think they are -study
Tue Nov 22, 6:52 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Who you calling fat?
Some 1 million adult New Yorkers are obese, but nearly two-thirds of them don't think they are, according to a study released on Tuesday by the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Among the obese, who account...
