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How overweight and obese is Asia and the Pacific? Countries and regions in Asia and the Pacific have registered high rates of overweight and obesity …
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Obesity in the UK is at an all-time high, with two out of three adults classed as overweight or obese. Even more worryingly, almost 60 per cent more …
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Treating obesity once established is challenging, however, researchers observed that sleep intervention in infancy reduces the risk of obesity for …
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Did you know that the worldwide prevalence of obesity nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016? In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults and more than …
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But the prospect of a vaccine to stop you getting fat is drawing closer after scientists found compelling evidence linking obesity to an infectious virus.
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Standing desks, sometimes regarded as a health fad, could play a key role in finding an affordable way to reduce obesity rates across Australia.
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Childhood obesity is placing a growing burden on the NHS and storing up a range of health problems for the future. A quarter of six to nine-year-olds …
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Scientists said that people with obesity have the flu much longer and often infect others. These findings are associated with the obtained incidence …
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Victoria Hulslander, of St. Louis, was bewildered when her then-5-year-old daughter Nancy was diagnosed as obese. Nancy was active in swimming …
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… After 4-Wk Rise, Contrave Declines: Obesity; 23/05/2018 – Epigen Biosciences Enters a Collaboration to License Its LPA1 Receptor Small Molecule …
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For over 30 years experts have observed for 50 thousand people, who were diagnosed obesity. In particular, the researchers observed the condition …
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A new market research report titled Global Anti Obesity Drugs Market Professional Survey Report 2018 has been added to the database of Trusted …
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As Constantine points out, one-third of Kern County's children and more than 67 percent of adults are overweight or obese. Obesity is one of the …
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Walk around any supermarket and witness obesity in adults. Then, see how often their children are obese. The end result is that children are now …
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Who: Dr Melvin Look, 53, a consultant surgeon in gastrointestinal, laparoscopic and obesity surgery. He also has a special interest in endoscopy and …
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Tonight anti-obesity campaigners attacked the figures as a drain on already overstretched fire services and further proof that the Government urgently …
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A latest detailed analysis titled “Obesity Surgery Devices Market: Worldwide Industry Study and Opportunity Appraisal of Obesity Surgery Devices …
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EXCLUSIVE: Interactive map reveals England's childhood growing obesity crisis and the north/ south divide; St Alban's has the lowest rates in the …
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Obesity, which is on the rise worldwide, has been linked to colon cancer but the mechanism has been a mystery. In a new study, Yale researchers and …
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There are many benefits for having gastric bypass surgery, but researchers believe that they've converted all of the benefits of the procedure into a …
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COMMENT. Fast-food restaurants across Australia are all riled up about a new study rating them on their commitment to addressing obesity.
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WE ARE in the grip of an obesity epidemic. The latest figures show that two-thirds of the UK population is either overweight or obese, making Britain …
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New data suggesting childhood obesity in the US is on the rise again may not tell the full story, but nevertheless serves as a call for manufacturers and …
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(HealthDay News) — In 2014, health care provider counseling for weight loss for adults with arthritis and overweight or obesity was 45.5 percent, …
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YINCHUAN, March 6 (Xinhua) — After diet and exercises have failed to make him thin, Yang Bin gets up the courage to tackle his obesity through surgery. Yang, 47, is 160 cm tall but weighs 120 kg. “I've had enough of it,” says the former technician in Wuzhong City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui …
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The idea that people with obesity may find other people with obesity physically attractive, also known as the “mutual attraction” hypothesis, does not bear out under close examination, according to a new analysis published in Obesity. “What is new here is that, with a large international sample, we can …
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Bariatric (obesity) surgery has become increasingly common in Western countries as the ultimate means to reduce the excess weight in patients with morbid obesity. In Finland, almost a thousand such operations are performed every year and in Sweden eight times more, 30.000 in France and more …
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In obese male patients treated with either targeted therapy or immunotherapy, median overall survival (OS) was almost double that of patients with normal a BMI (HR, 0.53; 95% CI, 0.40-0.70; P = .04). BMI from 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2 was considered normal. BMI ≥30 kg/m2 was considered obese.
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Obesity is becoming more prevalent every year in countries on a Western diet, and as we export this diet to the rest of the world obesity is increasing worldwide. The body mass index (BMI) is used to define obesity, with normal BMI being 18.5-24.9, overweight being 25-29.9, and obesity being greater …
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Perhaps the best news in health is that obesity rates appear to be leveling off to children and parents. The bad news is that the level is 35%. It would…
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Public Health England (PHE) has unveiled major steps to slash calorie consumption in the UK in a bid to tackle obesity. The government's challenge to the food industry is set out in Calorie reduction: the scope and ambition for action published this week by PHE. According to the report, there are three …
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But he added: “It is not an attack on overweight folk, it is about getting more options and extending knowledge and more choices.” The call comes after PHE found that some children are eating the equivalent of an extra meal a day in calories. It has estimated that some overweight or obese boys are …
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Saniona, a leading biotech company in the field of ion channels, today announced that its partner in Mexico, Medix, has completed recruitment for its Phase 3 clinical study of tesofensine in obesity. The trial is expected to be completed in 2018 and topline data is expected by early 2019.
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A PET charity is looking for Worcestershire animals to take part in a slimming contest in the region, which is helping tackle the growing pet obesity crisis. PDSA vets say a couch-potato lifestyle and excessive food consumption is fuelling the problem, so launched PDSA Pet Fit Club in the West Midlands to …
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Excessive food consumption and a lack of exercise is causing a pet obesity crisis, warns PDSA vets. To help tackle the problem, the charity is searching for the UK's chubbiest cats, dogs and rabbits, as it launches its annualpetslimming contest: PDSAPetFitClub. Now in its 13th year, the national …
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Silver Spring, Maryland, Feb. 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Behavioral weight management programs have impacts not just on the person undergoing treatment but also on spouses. A new study published in Obesity tracked the weight loss progress of 130 spouses over a 6 month period. The study …
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Rhythm Pharmaceuticals ( RYTM ), which is developing peptide-based therapies to treat rare genetic obesity, raised $120 million by offering 7.05 …
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America's obesity and overweight problem is also a cancer problem. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US …
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Cancer drugs came under scrutiny after a new study suggested many of those recently approved in Europe lack evidence that they're effective.
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… to how surely no one in the audience would be surprised if he fell over dead of a heart attack at that very moment, given the degree of his obesity.
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