Where you get your news could play a significant role in determining what you perceive as the best strategy for addressing childhood obesity. According to a study led by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, whether you believe the keys to combating childhood obesity are personal factors, such as individual behavior changes, or system-level factors, such as marketing and the ...

Depression and anxiety do not seem to interfere with the amount of weight loss or the improvement of obesity-related conditions after bariatric surgery, according to a new study of more than 25,000 patients presented here at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS). The lead author of the study was Jonathan F. Finks, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at ...

Bariatric surgery can lead to total or partial alleviation of migraines in nearly 90 percent of morbidly obese patients diagnosed with migraine headaches, according to a new study* presented here at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS). Over an average follow-up of three years after gastric bypass surgery, more than 70 percent of patients never had an ...

It is not strange to expect that families with better living conditions enjoy better health and a longer life expectancy. Now, a new study has also confirmed the relationship between a family's socioeconomic situation and certain sedentary behaviors, such as watching television and playing video games, during the first years of life. The study, carried out in five Spanish cities (Granada, Madrid, Santander, ...

The use of bariatric surgery among older, severely obese patients was not associated with a decreased risk of death, according to a study conducted by Matthew L. Maciejewski, Ph.D., of the Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, N.C., and colleagues in the June 15 issue of JAMA. This study is being released early online to coincide with its presentation at the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Included in t ...

Women who gain too much weight during pregnancy tend to have newborns with a high amount of body fat, regardless of the mother’s weight before pregnancy, a new study finds. The results will be presented Tuesday at The Endocrine Society’s 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. High fat at birth is a possible risk factor for childhood obesity, said the study’s principal investigator, Jami Josefson, MD, a pediatric en ...

New research has shown that children's risk for learning and behavior problems and obesity rises in correlation to their level of trauma exposure, says the psychiatrist at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital who oversaw the study. The findings could encourage physicians to consider diagnosing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rather than attention deficit/hy ...

Weight Watchers International, Inc. is proud to have been recognized as the Best Diet Plan for Weight Loss and the Best Commercial Diet Plan in the U.S. News & World Report first-ever Best Diets rankings, published online today. A panel of 22 leading, independent scientific experts convened by U.S. News & World Report ranked Weight Watchers No. 1 among weight loss programs. ...

Adolescent girls whose diet resembles one recommended for adults with hypertension appear to have smaller gains in overall body mass index (BMI) over 10 years, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals [1]. “Excess weight during childhood leads to numerous health problems and is even associated with premature death as an ad ...

Yo-yo dieters (dieters who diet on and off and may experience revolving increased/decreased body weight) may be healthier and live longer than those who stay obese, a new Ohio University study finds. Mice that switched between a high-fat and low-fat diet every four weeks during their approximate two-year lifespan lived about 25 percent longer and had better blood glucose levels than obese animals that ate a ...