TOP 100 WEIGHT LOSS SITES
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| First Childhood Obesity Symposium The Obesity Institute at Children's National Medical Center recently gathered experts from many disciplines to share ideas, failures and successes, and the future promise of prevention and intervention strategies to fight childhood obesity, both in the District of Columbia and nationwide. medicalnewstoday.com |
Link Between Obesity And Dangerous Sleep Apnea In Truck Drivers Truck crashes are a significant public health hazard causing thousands of deaths and injuries each year, with driver fatigue and sleepiness being major causes. A new study has confirmed previous findings that obesity-driven testing strategies identify commercial truck drivers with a high likelihood of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and suggests that mandating OSA screenings could reduce the risk of truck crashes. medicalnewstoday.com |
When Added To Diet And Exercise, Exenatide Promotes Weight Loss In combination with diet and exercise, the diabetes drug exenatide helped nondiabetic, obese individuals lose over three times more weight than those receiving a placebo, or dummy treatment, for 6 months. The results of the new study were presented at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. medicalnewstoday.com |
Excess Body Weight Causes Over 124,000 New Cancers A Year In Europe At least 124,000 new cancers in 2008 in Europe may have been caused by excess body weight, according to estimates from a new modelling study. The proportion of cases of new cancers attributable to a body mass index of 25kg/m2 or more were highest among women and in central European countries such as the Czech Republic, Latvia, Slovenia and Bulgaria. medicalnewstoday.com |
FDA Warns Consumers About Counterfeit Alli The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers about a counterfeit and potentially harmful version of Alli 60 mg capsules (120 count refill kit). Preliminary laboratory tests conducted by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)-the maker of the FDA approved over-the-counter weight-loss product- revealed that the counterfeit version did not contain orlistat, the active ingredient in its product... mnt.to |