TOP 100 WEIGHT LOSS SITES
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| Georgetown University Medical Center Researcher Elected To Institute Of Medicine The Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, has announced the membership election of Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, PhD, associate director for minority health and health disparities research, and professor of oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. medicalnewstoday.com |
A Child's Self-Esteem Affected By School Performance And Body Weight It's well known that within the adult population body weight and self esteem are very much inter related. But until now, the same wasn't known about children's healthy body weight and its relationship with a positive self-image. Paul Veugelers has changed that. medicalnewstoday.com |
News From The Journal Of The National Cancer Institute, April 28 2009 Designing a Randomized Controlled Trial for Physical Activity, Weight Control, and Breast Cancer Risk Researchers describe the rationale and a possible design for randomized controlled trials that test the impact of physical activity and weight control on breast cancer risk. medicalnewstoday.com |
Rates Of Severe Childhood Obesity Have Tripled 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. medicalnewstoday.com |
Teenage Obesity Linked To Increased Risk Of MS Teenage women who are obese may be more than twice as likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS) as adults compared to female teens who are not obese, according to a study published in the November 10, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The research involved 238,371women from the Nurses' Health Study and Nurses' Health Study II who were 25 to 55 years old. medicalnewstoday.com |