Weight Loss - Part 2

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August 19, 2010: Alabama’s Obesity Prevalence Hits 31 Percent; Alabama had an overall self-reported obesity level of 31 percent for adults. The obesity epidemic affects every state, according to a new CDC report. No state met the country’s Healthy People 2010 goal to lower obesity to 15 percent. New data show that nine states had an obesity rate of 30 percent or higher in [...]

August 18, 2010: College Is A Crucial Time To Develop Habits That Prevent Weight Gain And Protect Against Cancer, Say Experts; The everyday choices kids make when they go away to college establish the patterns they’ll follow for the rest of their lives, experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research said today. Setting healthy patterns can help them in the short-term – and help lower their lifetime risk of cancer and other diseases later in [...]

August 18, 2010: The Animal Kingdom’s Couch Potatoes; Pass the chips and hand over the remote. In a study involving the first-ever daily energy expenditure measurements in apes, a researcher from Washington University in St. Louis and his team have determined that orangutans living in a large indoor/outdoor habitat used less energy, relative to body mass, than nearly any eutherian mammal ever measured, [...]

August 18, 2010: Larger Waist Associated With Greater Risk Of Death; Individuals with a large waist circumference appear to have a greater risk of dying from any cause over a nine-year period, according to a report in the August 9/23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Having a large waist circumference has previously been associated with inflammation, insulin resistance, type 2 [...]

August 18, 2010: EZVille, Ltd. Issues A Voluntary Nationwide Recall Of Solo Slim® Found To Contain An Undeclared Drug Ingredient; EZVille, Ltd. of Ronkonkoma, NY, has been informed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that FDA lab analysis of Solo Slim® distributed by the company was found to contain an undeclared drug ingredient. Solo Slim® was found to contain Didesmethyl Sibutramine. Sibutramine is an FDA-approved drug used as an appetite suppressant for weight loss. [...]

August 15, 2010: Latest Increase In US Obesity Rate Will Mean More Cancers, Experts Warn; According to just-released figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2.4 million more Americans became obese between 2007 and 2009. Approximately 26.7 percent of the US adult population, or 72.5 million people, are now obese. Experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) said today that this increase may well result in [...]

August 15, 2010: Loss Of Quality-Adjusted Life Years Due To Obesity More Than Doubles For US Adults From 1993-2008; Although the prevalence of obesity and obesity-attributable deaths has steadily increased, the resultant burden of disease associated with obesity has not been well understood. A new study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine indicates that Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) lost to U.S. adults due to morbidity and mortality from [...]

August 15, 2010: New Micromass Study Shows Metabolic Mindset™ May Be A Valuable Weapon In America’s Battle Against Obesity; Behavioral researchers at MicroMass Communications have identified a metabolic mindset™ that could be the key to helping physicians, nurses and other healthcare educators successfully influence patients with type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol to adopt healthier lifestyle changes such as losing weight, eating better, getting more exercise, and giving up cigarettes. Jessica Brueggeman, director [...]

August 15, 2010: Wealthier Families Benefit Most From Canada’s Children’s Fitness Tax Credit; When it comes to who gets the biggest bang for the buck from Canada’s Children’s Fitness Tax Credit (CFTC), it’s wealthier families that benefit most, University of Alberta researchers have found. It’s the first study to look at the uptake and effectiveness of a tax credit to increase physical activity levels of children. Behavioural scientist [...]

August 15, 2010: Americans Continue To Get Fatter, CDC Finds; The New York Times: “Americans are continuing to get fatter and fatter, with obesity rates reaching 30 percent or more in nine states last year, as opposed to only three states in 2007, health officials reported on Tuesday. The increases mean that 2.4 million more people became obese from 2007 to 2009, bringing the total [...]