Obesity Linked With Poorer Breast Cancer Outcomes

By Jane Smith | 11 December 2009
Posted in Weight loss News

Breast cancer patients with a high body mass index (BMI) have a poorer cancer prognosis later in life. Specifically, their treatment effect does not last as long and their risk of death increases. "Overall, women should make an effort to keep their BMI less than 25," said Marianne Ewertz, M.D., professor in the Department of Oncology at Odense University Hospital, Denmark...

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Children Overweight When They Start School In England

By Jane Smith | 11 December 2009
Posted in Weight loss News

New figures released this week show that one fifth of children in England are either obese or overweight when they start school at age four or five, and for those in Year 6, the final year of primary school, the picture is even bleaker, and shows nearly one in three children are overweight or obese in the lead up to secondary school at age ten or eleven...

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Risk Factors Of Disordered Eating In Overweight Youth Identified By U Of M Study

By Jane Smith | 01 August 2009
Posted in Weight loss News

University of Minnesota Project Eating Among Teens (EAT) researchers have identified factors that may increase overweight adolescents' risk of engaging in extreme weight control behaviors such as self-induced vomiting, the use of diet pills, laxatives, and diuretics, as well as binge eating.

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