TOP 100 WEIGHT LOSS SITES
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| Researchers Find Clue To Safer Obesity Drugs Once hailed as a miracle weight-loss drug, Fen-phen was removed from the market more than a decade ago for inducing life-threatening side effects, including heart valve lesions. Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center are trying to understand how Fen-phen behaves in the brain in order to develop safer anti-obesity drugs with fewer side effects. In a study appearing in the Nov. medicalnewstoday.com |
Osteoarthritis Worsens With Excess Weight Being fat increases the risk of primary joint replacement in osteoarthritis (OA). A study published in BioMed Central's open access journal, Arthritis Research & Therapy, found that increased waist circumference and body mass index (BMI) were associated with the risk of both knee and hip joint replacement. Total joint replacement is an effective treatment for severe knee and hip OA, and obesity is recognized as being the most important modifiable risk factor for OA. medicalnewstoday.com |
Link Between Adolescent Obesity And Reduced Sleep Caused By Technology Use And Caffeine According to a research abstract presented at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, adolescent obesity is associated with having less sleep. Reduction in sleep could be related to a higher caffeine intake, more hours of technology use and increased symptoms of sleep disorders (such as snoring). medicalnewstoday.com |
Adult Body Size Associated With Prostate Cancer Risk A team of scientists led by researcher Brenda Hernandez, Ph.D., M.P.H. - an assistant professor at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's Cancer Research Center of Hawai'i - has reported that body mass in younger and older adulthood, and weight gain between these life periods, may influence a man's risk for prostate cancer. medicalnewstoday.com |
Book Investigates Leading Scientific Hypotheses To Explain Mysterious Increase In Type 1 Diabetes The incidence of type 1 diabetes is now twice as high among children as it was in the 1980s, and 10 to 20 times more common than 100 years ago, according to peer-reviewed research uncovered in a new book from Kaplan Publishing... mnt.to |