Topic: Obesity
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Two-year-olds who are still using bottles are more likely to be obese by kindergarten, a U.S. study said, raising the possibility that weaning babies from the bottle at an earlier age may help prevent excessive weight gain.The ...
Immigrants to the United States often ditch their ethnic diets for high-calorie American fare, partly because it is cheap and easy to find but also as a way to fit in, a new study shows.Immigrants who eat American are consuming, on average, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older adults who are obese are more likely to develop problems with day-to-day activities, such as bathing, getting dressed, and going to the bathroom, a new study finds.The more excess weight they are carrying, the more likely ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Being overweight doubles a person's risk for osteoarthritis of the knees and being obese quadruples it, according to a new review of past studies that was designed to calculate how many knee arthritis cases would be avoided ...
A new treatment for obesity that combines two existing drugs resulted in twice as much weight loss as the only approved long-term anti-obesity medication, according to a study released Monday.A mix of Phentermine and topiramate, sold under the brand name of Topamax, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fewer Australian preschoolers are overweight in recent years compared with the late-1990s -- and the social disparities in children's obesity risk seem to be shrinking, a new study finds.The results, reported in the International Journal of Obesity, ...
GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - In a sleepy riverside village in Southern China, three-year-old Lu Zhihao tears around his home; his belly, arms and legs wobbling with fat as he stuffs a pear into his mouth."I want to be superman," said the toddler, ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. health officials Thursday announced a new effort to curb America's obesity epidemic by moving science from the lab into clinical trials to find practical ways for prevention and treatment."This plan is a bold blueprint that will encourage the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Small children who are obese may be more likely to develop severe eczema, a painful, extremely itchy skin condition, a new study says.Compared to children who weren't obese, kids who became obese between the ages of 2 ...
US First Lady Michelle Obama's campaign against childhood obesity took a personal turn when she said she is paying more attention to a key body fat measurement for her own daughters.Obama said she was surprised to learn that her daughters' body mass ...
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