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  1. Investigators identify successful weight control strategies for adolescents

    Adolescent obesity is a major public health problem that impacts one out of every three children, resulting in 4-5 million overweight youth in the United States.

  2. Overweight children may develop back pain and spinal abnormalities

    Being overweight as a child could lead to early degeneration in the spine, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

  3. Depressed women can lose weight as successfully as others do

    Women with major depression were no less likely than were women without it to have successful results with a weight loss program, according to an article in the Winter 2009 Behavioral Medicine. Group Health Research Institute Senior Research Associate Evette J. Ludman, PhD, the study leader, concluded that weight loss programs should not exclude depressed people.

  4. How Body Mass Index Works

    How do experts determine if a person’s obese, and what does body mass index have to do with it?

  5. Fat around the middle increases the risk of dementia
  6. Molecule discovered that makes obese people develop diabetes

    Many people who are overweight or obese develop insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes at some stage in their lives. A European research team has now discovered that obese people have large amounts of the molecule CXCL5, produced by certain cells in fatty tissue.

  7. Eating Disorder Recovery Holiday Survival Plan
  8. The Problem with Dieting | Psychology Today

    A recent study showed just how chronic dieting can turn someone into a food addict. Bad news for yo-yo dieters this week: according to a recent study, cycles of feast and famine can create fast-food junkies–at least in rodents. The researchers put rats on a cyclic diet of 5 days of standard rat chow, followed by 2 days of the equivalent of rat fast food (high fat, high sugar, highly delicious). In other words, a compressed version of most dieters’ swings between self-control and indulgence. it didn’t take long for the rats to develop a clear preference for the unhealthier diet.

  9. 5 "Bites" to Meaningful Meals
  10. Eight Tips for Feeling More Energetic.