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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/health/weight-loss health Weight Loss News en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:11 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/health/weight-loss http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100210/hl_hsn/gastricbandingmosteffectiveforobeseteens hsn/20100210/gastricbandingmosteffectiveforobeseteens HealthDay health Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:11 GMT HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Severely obese teens who received gastric banding surgery lost significantly more weight than those who made lifestyle changes such as dieting and exercise, Australian researchers report. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/hl_nm/us_obesity_surgery nm/20100209/us_obesity_surgery Reuters health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:45:03 GMT Reuters - Severely obese teens who had surgery to limit what they could eat lost more weight and enjoyed more health benefits than those who did an intensive lifestyle program, researchers said on Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/pl_afp/healthuspoliticsobesitychildrenobama afp/20100209/healthuspoliticsobesitychildrenobama AFP health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:48:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/pl_afp/healthuspoliticsobesitychildrenobama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265728440610-5-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=WoqVwarqLndbONh0DQrwfQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="First Lady Michelle Obama teamed up with athletes, farmers, doctors and the media Tuesday to confront the childhood obesity "epidemic" that affects a staggering one in three American youngsters.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - First Lady Michelle Obama teamed up with athletes, farmers, doctors and the media Tuesday to confront the childhood obesity "epidemic" that affects a staggering one in three American youngsters.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/pl_afp/healthuspoliticsobesitychildrenobama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265728440610-5-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=WoqVwarqLndbONh0DQrwfQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="First Lady Michelle Obama teamed up with athletes, farmers, doctors and the media Tuesday to confront the childhood obesity "epidemic" that affects a staggering one in three American youngsters.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/hl_nm/us_obama_obesity nm/20100209/us_obama_obesity Reuters health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:20:03 GMT Reuters - Alarmed that nearly a third of U.S. children are obese or overweight -- and likely to stay that way all their lives -- President Barack Obama launched an initiative on Tuesday to roll back the numbers and put his wife in charge of promoting it. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_obese_needle nm/20100208/us_obese_needle Reuters health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:37:28 GMT Reuters - Our ever-expanding waistlines may have outgrown the doctor's needle, researchers say, in what could be another casualty of the obesity epidemic. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100208/sc_livescience/3simplestepscancutchildhoodobesity livescience/20100208/3simplestepscancutchildhoodobesity LiveScience.com health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:35:46 GMT LiveScience.com - A new study finds three household routines lower the risk of obesity in children: having family dinners, getting enough sleep and limiting weekday TV time. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100205/sc_livescience/proteinsupplementmythrevealedbybodyofwork livescience/20100205/proteinsupplementmythrevealedbybodyofwork LiveScience.com health Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:50:13 GMT LiveScience.com - Most health stores are tainted with the irony that so few of their products are actually healthy, from herbal potions of unknown purity and utility to dietary supplements capitalizing on recent trends in weight loss or hair gain. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100204/sc_livescience/obesepeopleloseweightathighaltitudes livescience/20100204/obesepeopleloseweightathighaltitudes LiveScience.com health Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:46:03 GMT LiveScience.com - Here's a possible future diet tip: Move to a mountaintop. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100204/hl_hsn/veryobesepeoplemaybemissinggenes hsn/20100204/veryobesepeoplemaybemissinggenes HealthDay health Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:49:52 GMT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Adding more evidence to theories linking DNA to weight, European scientists report that a genetic variation seems to virtually guarantee that a person will become obese. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100203/hl_afp/healthbiotechobesity afp/20100203/healthbiotechobesity AFP health Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:43:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100203/hl_afp/healthbiotechobesity"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100203/capt.photo_1265222569352-1-0.jpg?x=78&y=130&q=85&sig=fa2p9SYqaqe1fQsUEnQH.g--" align="left" height="130" width="78" alt="Debate over the obesity epidemic sweeping parts of the world has focussed on whether lifestyle -- too much junk food and couch-potato living -- is the big culprit or whether genes are also to blame. A new study may help tip the balance in favour of those who claim that fat runs in their family and there is little they can do about it.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Debate over the obesity epidemic sweeping parts of the world has focussed on whether lifestyle -- too much junk food and couch-potato living -- is the big culprit or whether genes are also to blame.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100203/hl_afp/healthbiotechobesity"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100203/capt.photo_1265222569352-1-0.jpg?x=78&y=130&q=85&sig=fa2p9SYqaqe1fQsUEnQH.g--" align="left" height="130" width="78" alt="photo" title="Debate over the obesity epidemic sweeping parts of the world has focussed on whether lifestyle -- too much junk food and couch-potato living -- is the big culprit or whether genes are also to blame. A new study may help tip the balance in favour of those who claim that fat runs in their family and there is little they can do about it.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100203/hl_hsn/laterpubertyseenforobeseboys hsn/20100203/laterpubertyseenforobeseboys HealthDay health Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:49:16 GMT HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity causes later onset of puberty in boys, new research indicates. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100203/hl_hsn/fatburningchemicalpointstonewweightlossdrug hsn/20100203/fatburningchemicalpointstonewweightlossdrug HealthDay health Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:49:15 GMT HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- American scientists say they may have found a new way to trick the body into burning more fat. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/pl_afp/healthuspoliticsobama afp/20100202/healthuspoliticsobama AFP health Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:54:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/pl_afp/healthuspoliticsobama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100202/capt.photo_1265151240162-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=_FYLHFyunA2SOeNn7kQR4Q--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="US First Lady Michelle Obama (R) speaks alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (L) on childhood obesity, and steps that families, schools and communities can to fight it, during a meeting with Cabinet and Congressional members in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC.(AFP/Saul Loeb)" border="0" /></a>AFP - First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday went to war against childhood obesity, meeting with US lawmakers to prepare the battle plans.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/pl_afp/healthuspoliticsobama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100202/capt.photo_1265151240162-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=_FYLHFyunA2SOeNn7kQR4Q--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="US First Lady Michelle Obama (R) speaks alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (L) on childhood obesity, and steps that families, schools and communities can to fight it, during a meeting with Cabinet and Congressional members in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC.(AFP/Saul Loeb)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/hl_nm/us_overweight_longer nm/20100202/us_overweight_longer Reuters health Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:21:08 GMT Reuters - A few extra pounds might help you live longer if you're past your prime but otherwise healthy, a new study finds. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/hl_nm/us_spoonfeeding_obesity nm/20100202/us_spoonfeeding_obesity Reuters health Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:42:42 GMT Reuters - Waiting longer to start infants on solid food could make for slimmer adults, new research shows. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/hl_afp/lifestylehealthobesitychildrenmexico afp/20100201/lifestylehealthobesitychildrenmexico AFP health Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:07:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/hl_afp/lifestylehealthobesitychildrenmexico"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100201/capt.photo_1265040359197-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=hiLRg3q744Cy1ooGxvduHg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A row of ¨Tacos Dorados¨ (corn tortillas filled with cheese, beans, pork meat and chilli sauce) on display by a "comal" (metal hotplate) at a street stand in Mexico City in 2008. Mexico's rich diet of tacos, tortillas and tortas (large sandwiches), which is jokingly nicknamed "Vitamin T," has steered its children to the top of world obesity charts.(AFP/File/Ronaldo Schemidt)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Mexico's rich diet of tacos, tortillas and tortas (large sandwiches), which is jokingly nicknamed "Vitamin T," has steered its children to the top of world obesity charts.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/hl_afp/lifestylehealthobesitychildrenmexico"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100201/capt.photo_1265040359197-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=hiLRg3q744Cy1ooGxvduHg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A row of ¨Tacos Dorados¨ (corn tortillas filled with cheese, beans, pork meat and chilli sauce) on display by a "comal" (metal hotplate) at a street stand in Mexico City in 2008. Mexico's rich diet of tacos, tortillas and tortas (large sandwiches), which is jokingly nicknamed "Vitamin T," has steered its children to the top of world obesity charts.(AFP/File/Ronaldo Schemidt)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_he_me/us_med_fighting_obesity ap/20100201/us_med_fighting_obesity AP health Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:40:18 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_he_me/us_med_fighting_obesity"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100201/capt.4c519de83a2047bd9f6754adb33cb822.fighting_obesity_cx802.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=8JdvX7mkfG14.P4w26.eVA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="In this photo taken Nov. 19, 2008, Registered Nurse Rebecca Allison measures Paris Woods waistline as she takes part in her first session of a 20 month obesity prevention study at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Like nearly one-third of American teens, Paris is overweight and her doctor worries that she is headed for obesity. Wishing to avoid that scenario, Paris, and her parents participated in weekly sessions with a nutritionist, exercise trainer and physician preaching major lifestyle changes that could keep the 14-year-old from becoming obese. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)" border="0" /></a>AP - Paris Woods is hardly a poster child for the obesity epidemic. Lining up dripping wet with kids on her swim team, she's a blend of girlish chunkiness and womanly curves.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_he_me/us_med_fighting_obesity"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100201/capt.4c519de83a2047bd9f6754adb33cb822.fighting_obesity_cx802.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=8JdvX7mkfG14.P4w26.eVA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken Nov. 19, 2008, Registered Nurse Rebecca Allison measures Paris Woods waistline as she takes part in her first session of a 20 month obesity prevention study at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Like nearly one-third of American teens, Paris is overweight and her doctor worries that she is headed for obesity. Wishing to avoid that scenario, Paris, and her parents participated in weekly sessions with a nutritionist, exercise trainer and physician preaching major lifestyle changes that could keep the 14-year-old from becoming obese. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100130/hl_hsn/healthtipwhosacandidateforgastricbypasssurgery hsn/20100130/healthtipwhosacandidateforgastricbypasssurgery HealthDay health Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:49:19 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Gastric bypass surgery, sometimes recommended for obese people, involves re-routing the path that food takes, including shrinking the size of the stomach. But the procedure has a number of risks, including the possibility of post-surgical infection, blood clots or developing gallstones. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100129/hl_nm/us_obesity_usa nm/20100129/us_obesity_usa Reuters health Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:03:39 GMT Reuters - U.S. health officials have leveraged the star power of first lady Michelle Obama to roll out a new campaign against obesity, a preventable condition that drains billions of dollars from the economy. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weightloss/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100129/hl_time/08599195749100 time/20100129/08599195749100 Time.com health Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:15:00 GMT Time.com - A new study by Australian researchers finds that overweight adults over 70 tend to outlive their thinner -- and much fatter -- peers