Australian Parents Fail To Recognize Their Children's Burgeoning Weight

By Clive | 17 July 2009
Posted in Weight loss News

Despite constant warnings about childhood obesity, too many Australian parents are still oblivious to the fact their children are overweight, according to the findings of the national MBF Healthwatch survey. The disturbing results showed that only 7.9% of children were considered to be overweight by their parents.

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New Book Examines Weighty Issue

By Clive | 17 July 2009
Posted in Weight loss News

Obesity -- that never-ending "battle of the bulge"-- dates back to the Stone Age and yet is emerging today as a modern health epidemic. While its root cause is as simple as calories consumed versus calories burned, it's cure is knotted somewhere in a complex web of biology, psychology and culture.

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Ben-Gurion U. Researchers Identify How Stressed Fat Tissue Malfunctions

By Clive | 15 July 2009
Posted in Weight loss News

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers, in a collaboration with colleagues from the University of Leipzig, Germany, have identified a signaling pathway that is operational in intra-abdominal fat, the fat depot that is most strongly tied to obesity-related morbidity. The paper was just published in the Endocrine Society's the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism ( J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab.)

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