Rates Of Severe Childhood Obesity Have Tripled

By Jane | 30 July 2009
Posted in Weight loss News

Rates of severe childhood obesity have tripled in the last 25 years, putting many children at risk for diabetes and heart disease, according to a report in Academic Pediatrics by an obesity expert at Brenner Children's Hospital, part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. "Children are not only becoming obese, but becoming severely obese, which impacts their overall health," said Joseph Skelton, M.D.

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Blood Pressure Can Be Lowered By Reducing Salt Intake

By Jane Smith | 30 July 2009
Posted in Weight loss News

Adults who use less salt in their diet can experience a slight reduction in their blood pressure in the medium term. However, whether in the long term this can also reduce the risk of late complications in people with sustained high blood pressure, otherwise known as essential hypertension, and whether in the long term their anti-hypertensive medication can be reduced remains unresolved.

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Novel Strategy For Treating Obesity Suggested By Creation of Energy-Burning Brown Fat In Mice

By Jane Smith | 30 July 2009
Posted in Weight loss News

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have shown that they can engineer mouse and human cells to produce brown fat, a natural energy-burning type of fat that counteracts obesity. If such a strategy can be developed for use in people, the scientists say, it could open a novel approach to treating obesity and diabetes.

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