TOP 100 WEIGHT LOSS SITES
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| Effectiveness Of Steroids Reduced In Obese Asthma Patients Researchers at National Jewish Health have shown that glucocorticoids, the primary controller medication for asthma, are 40 percent less effective in overweight and obese asthma patients than in those of normal weight. The findings identify a potential mechanism involved in the resistance, which suggests therapeutic targets for future medications. The study, by Associate Professor of Medicine medicalnewstoday.com |
Overweight In Children Starting School Immigrant children have a greater risk of suffering from overweight and obesity. This is the result of a study from Augsburg with 2306 children examined on starting school. Elisabeth Weber and her coauthors present the results in the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztbl Int 2008; 105 [51-52]: 883-9). The doctors recorded not only the age, sex, weight, and height of the children, but also their mother tongue. medicalnewstoday.com |
U.S. Department Of Health & Human Services Releases Public Service Announcements To Encourage Healthy Lifestyles The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Surgeon General released two public service announcements, in English, "Take the Lead" and in Spanish, "Mi Cocina," on childhood overweight and obesity prevention. Both PSAs encourage families to be physically active and eat healthy foods. The PSAs were released on the first day of National Public Health Week, which is April 6 - 12, 2009. medicalnewstoday.com |
Behavior: Money Not a Motivator in Losing Weight Losing weight is so hard you cannot even pay people to do it. nytimes.com |
Current Soda Taxes Not High Enough To Curb Obesity, Study Finds Current state taxes and levies on soft drinks are slowing consumption and resulting in slimmer waistlines, but the effect is generally small in magnitude, newly published research by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The study appears in the journal Contemporary Economic Policy. Assistant professor Jason M. Fletcher of Yale analyzed the effectiveness of various forms of soda taxation on body mass index (BMI) over a 16-year period. medicalnewstoday.com |