I want to introduce a new topic to our readers. I regularly track several key websites who publish fairly constant news updates about important ongoing mental health scientific research. Due to this volume, key stories are significantly delayed or never written about here. Hence, I have created a new section entitled, "NIH/NIMH Research News Update" that will be regularly updated. The Behavioral Medicine Re ...

The British Medical Association recently (2009) released a comprehensive, evidenced-based guide to infant and childhood health and nutrition, called "Early Life Nutrition and Lifelong Health." This is a timely e-book in light of the epidemic of life style diseases that now afflict our youngest citizens. These concerns and trends have been detailed in the previous post, Obesity - #1 Childhood Health Concern ...

The research arm of the University of Oxford* reports that even moderate levels of obesity can significantly reduce one's life span. In the largest ever study of the effects of obesity on mortality, researchers analyzed 57 studies that tracked approximately 900,000 participants for an average of 10-15 years. The results will appear in a future volume of The Lancet. Body mass index, or BMI, was used to asses ...

Kaiser Permanente is a progressive not-for-profit health plan provider and one of the initial advocates of behavioral health integration into overall primary medical care.  Newly published research* suggests that people who lose weight immediately following Type 2 Diabetes, "insulin resistance," diagnosis realize improved health outcomes, such as reaching blood pressure and blood sugar goals.  Another impor ...

A national poll conducted by C.S. Mott Children's Hospital's National Poll on Children's Health suggests that obesity problems are not limited to adults. In fact, childhood obesity came in at #1 in their poll, bumping smoking and drug abuse from the top spots a year ago. ...