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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
The scale of Britain's childhood obesity crisis was revealed as a quarter (23 per cent) of four to five year-olds and almost a third (31 per cent) of 10-year-olds are overweight and obese.
The data comes from a voluntary weighing scheme in primary schools in which more than 800,000 children were ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
An article in the March issue of Anesthesiology reports that obese children are more likely to have problems during surgery. Specifically, obese children are more prone to problems with airway obstruction and other functions pertaining to breathing compared to normal-weight children. They had higher rates of difficult mask ventilation, airway ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
An estimated three in every four obese people suffering from diabetes can be cured of the disease with bariatric surgery, according to a groundbreaking new study reported in the current edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Experts say this finding opens the door to changes in the ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Obesity is one of the greatest health risks for children in the United States and, unfortunately, it's on the rise. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of obese children in America has tripled since 1980. To help Rush University Medical Center more effectively address this ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Spanish-language television commercials for foods and beverages with little nutritional value might be contributing to obesity rates among Hispanic children in the U.S., according to a study published online Tuesday by the Journal of Pediatrics, Reuters reports. Nearly half of all food commercials the study examined advertised fast food, and ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
If a child is obese when they hit adolescence, are they destined to be overweight for life? Is gastric bypass surgery for obese adolescents a reasonable option? How can parents work with schools and the community to stem the rising tide of adolescent obesity? Will the almost 25 million American ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
The Duluth Clinic Weight Management Program in Duluth, MN, will broadcast a LAP-BAND® weight loss surgery, live on http://www.OR-Live.com Tuesday, March 4, 2008, at 6:30 p.m. The public will be able to watch as a surgeon uses minimally invasive techniques to fit a special band around the upper portion of ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Children who eat less salt drink fewer sugar-sweetened soft drinks and may significantly lower their risks for obesity, elevated blood pressure and later-in-life heart attack and stroke, researchers reported in the print and online issue of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Previous studies have shown that dietary salt intake ...
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