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Health Tips: Excess Toddler Weight: Is Skim Milk Helping?
May 1st, 2013The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association recommend that all children drink low fat or skimmed milk after the age of two to reduce their saturated fat intake and ward off excess weight gain. But the evidence to back up this stance is mixed, say the authors, who wanted to find out whether milk consumption patterns among two-year-olds affected weight gain.
Health Tips: Foods Helping Inflammation
May 1st, 2013Inflammation is the body’s normal response to injury. While it may be a natural defense system, it can lead to disease development if it becomes chronic. “The inflammation process has one goal: to respond immediately to detect and destroy the toxic material in damaged tissues before it can spread throughout the body,” explained Lauren Whitt, PhD.
Early Intervention is Critical to Reverse Diabetes
April 1st, 2013Diabetes is a debilitating disease, and we see the effects on our bodies ranging from obesity and chronic fatigue up to blindness and even amputation.
Cooking, eating, and exercising to protect your cell health
Health News: Fructose Stimulates Appetite
March 1st, 2013Fructose consumption leads to further hunger whereas glucose consumption promotes feelings of fullness, according to a study recently published in JAMA.
Weight Loss Improves Sexual Function, Not Fertility
January 1st, 2013Obese women are usually instructed to lose weight in order to increase the chances of becoming pregnant. Recent research says weight loss may be more likely to improve sexual desire and frequency rather than combat infertility problems.
Health Tips: Risk Factors Predict Childhood Obesity
January 1st, 2013High birth weight, rapid weight gain, and having an overweight mother who smokes can all increase the risk of a baby becoming obese later in childhood, according to research by experts at The University of Nottingham. The study was published in the latest edition of the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
“Lack of Exercise” Could Be a Classified Medical Condition
November 1st, 2012Diabetes, high blood pressure, and joint pain are just a few characteristics of obesity. What if the lack of exercise were treated as a medical condition? Would obesity numbers go down? Mayo Clinic physiologist Michael Joyner, MD, argues that it should be and they would.
Health Tips: Newly Isolated “Beige Fat” Cells Could Help Fight Obesity
September 1st, 2012Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have isolated a new type of energy-burning fat cell in adult humans, which they say may have therapeutic potential for treating obesity.
Obesity Now an Issue for Unborn Infants
August 1st, 2012Doctors in Britain have begun administering the diabetes drug metformin to unborn babies of morbidly obese mothers-to-be in an attempt to reduce the fetuses’ weight.
Obesity Epidemic Fueling Rise in Rheumatoid Arthritis Among Women
August 1st, 2012Obesity and the painful autoimmune disorder rheumatoid arthritis are each becoming more common, raising a logical question: Could one have something to do with the other?
By studying medical records from 1980 to 2007, researchers found that rheumatoid arthritis cases rose by 9.2 percent per 100,000 women. Obesity accounted for 52 percent of the increase.
