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Childhood obesity may change thyroid ...
In addition to its strong associations with hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, pediatric obesity may induce alterations in thyroid function and structure, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Source: News-Medical-Net (Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:51:01 GMT)
Exercise Eases Obesity and Anger in Kids ...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Overweight kids may be able to work out their anger with exercise, a new report finds.
Source: HealthDay via Yahoo! News (Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:02:17 GMT)
Depression Linked to Increase in Abdominal Fat ...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- There may be a link between depression and abdominal obesity in older people, according to researchers in Holland who studied almost 2,100 adults in their seventies.
Source: HealthDay via Yahoo! News (Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:03:04 GMT)
Good, Bad And Ugly In Food Marketing Focus Of $6.4 Million Childhood Obesity...
The link between food marketing and the growing childhood obesity epidemic is the focus of a $6.4 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. Principal investigators, Rudd Center Director Kelly D.
Source: Medical News Today (Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:12:47 GMT)
UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News ...
Iceberg computer program is created ? New discovery about T cells is reported ? NASA studies pilot cognition ? Diabetes, obesity metabolic link studied ... Health/Science news from UPI.
Source: UPI (Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:46:15 GMT)
TV, Internet Causing Kids Harm: Report ...
TUESDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- There's a strong link between media exposure and childhood obesity, smoking and sexual activity, according to U.S. researchers who reviewed 173 studies on media and health conducted over the past three decades.
Source: HealthDay via Yahoo! News (Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:03:09 GMT)
Bat and ball replaced by Web and games? ...
"With everything in the news about the obesity of our young today," writes a CNET reader, "the answer is to create 'active video games?" It's a new world.
Source: CNET (Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:07:55 GMT)
UnitedHealth Group Grants to Help Students and Educators Combat Childhood...
UnitedHealth Group is giving Pennsylvania children the opportunity to become "health care heroes" by learning about childhood obesity, designing programs to address it and implementing the programs in their communities.
Source: PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance (Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:48:00 GMT)
Chemical used in antifouling paints may promote obesity ...
Tributyltin, a ubiquitous pollutant that has a potent effect on gene activity, could be promoting obesity, according to an article in the December issue of BioScience.
Source: News-Medical-Net (Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:05:30 GMT)
Health Highlights: Dec. 3, 2008 ...
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
Source: HealthDay via Yahoo! News (Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:02:19 GMT)
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