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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...
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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....
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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 who had recently lost weight injections of the hormone helped them to...
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05.12.05
A New Zealand doctor who specialises in obesity says it comes as no surprise that the country now ranks at number seven in an OECD league of the world’s most obese nations.
Wellington hospital director of clinical services Robyn Toomath said it had to be expected, considering a third of New Zealand primary school children were overweight.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Coffee and tea may reduce the risk of serious liver damage in people who drink alcohol too much, are overweight, or have too much iron in the blood, researchers reported on Sunday.
The study of nearly 10,000 people showed that those who drank more than two cups of coffee or tea per day developed chronic liver disease...
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By Carolyn Poirot
Knight Ridder Newspapers
FORT WORTH, Texas — High-fructose corn syrup isn’t completely
responsible for the nation’s 6 million overweight children — but Dr. George Bray says it’s a big part of the problem.
Nurture trumps nature in the current childhood-obesity...
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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 to its level before weight loss, patients maintained their slim figures.
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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 over patients who need bariatric surgery, an increasingly...
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Sales in schools targeted by group
By Caroline E. Mayer, Washington Post | December 2, 2005
WASHINGTON — The fight against sugary soft drinks is beginning to foam over.
A coalition of lawyers who have actively and successfully sued tobacco companies says it is close to filing a class-action lawsuit against soft-drink makers for...
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By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
Published: 01 December 2005
Healthy options offered by burger and pizza chains are still stuffed with salt and fat despite menu changes.
An investigation of the food sold by the “big four” - McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC and Pizza Hut - found...
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BEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhuanet) — Caffeine has a positive effect on short-term memory and reaction times, according to an Austrian study.
Researchers at the Innsbruck Medical University discovered that the caffeine found in coffee, tea, soft drinks and chocolate stimulates areas of the brain governing short-term memory and attention.
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By David Rose
PREGNANT women have long been expected to “eat for two” and satisfy their craving for unhealthy foods, but expectant mothers who overindulge may be condemning their children to a lifetime of obesity, researchers have said.
Although obstetricians agree that women should gain weight as part of a healthy pregnancy,...
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Published on: 12/01/05
A pending lawsuit against Coca-Cola will charge that the Atlanta soft drink giant uses caffeine to addict schoolchildren to its nutritionally bankrupt product, and the legal team behind the class-action suit is the same one that successfully challenged Big Tobacco.
There’s no disputing that children should not be drinking as many soft drinks...
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Fruit bats may be acting as reservoirs of the killer Ebola virus, responsible for several deadly outbreaks in central Africa, research suggests.
Three bat species captured during outbreaks between 2001 and 2003 in Gabon and the Republic of Congo show evidence of symptomless infection.
Writing in Nature, researchers in Gabon...
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By Lori Corbin
For pets, the planet or just to peel off a few pounds, many are looking to a vegan diet.
But, unlike vegetarians, a vegan diet is strictly plant based. Absolutely no animal products what so ever. No meat, eggs, dairy, fish, or fowl of any kind. While that may seem limiting, it is a diet that’s...
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