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If a woman is overweight when she becomes pregnant, the probability is much greater that her child will evince ADHD-like symptoms when he/she reaches school age, according to a new Nordic study. The investigation was carried out by Alina Rodriguez at Uppsala University in collaboration with international colleagues, and is available online in the International Journal of Obesity. [click link for full article]

For a healthy kick-start to 2008 choose Christmas gifts that promote healthy habits and fight obesity, says Australia’s leading nutrition organisation, the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA). [click link for full article]

An apolitical, cross-departmental approach is required for the UK to tackle the obesity epidemic, and further inactivity will only magnify the consequences of the epidemic, states an Editorial in this week’s edition of The Lancet. [click link for full article]

People should aim to be at the lower end of the healthy weight range, according to a landmark report published recently that links body fat and cancer more closely than ever before. The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) report is the most comprehensive ever published on the link between cancer and diet, physical activity and weight. [click link for full article]

A report issued by an international panel of experts says that the best way to significantly reduce the risk of getting cancer is to be lean, exercise vigorously every day, avoid fast food, eat less red meat, and avoid preserved meat such as ham and bacon, eat more plant-based foods and cut down on alcohol.The panel said that diet and lack of exercise cause one third of all cancers which could be prevented by changes in lifestyle. [click link for full article]

There is no “one size fits all” when it comes to weight loss through exercise, says Queensland University of Technology behavioural scientist Neil King.Dr Neil King, from QUT’s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, is the lead author of a study conducted in collaboration with the University of Leeds in the UK, which has been published in the latest edition of the International Journal of Obesity. [click link for full article]

Thresholds limiting bariatric surgeries to high-volume centers disproportionately restrict access for poor and underinsured patients, populations which are among the most in need of them, an analysis led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows. [click link for full article]

Children whose mothers smoked even in the early stages of pregnancy are nearly three times more likely to struggle with obesity later in life, according to a Japanese study. The survey was done over a period of nearly two decades by a team led by Zentaro Yamagata, professor at Yamanashi University’s School of Medicine. It covered 1,400 women in Japan who gave birth between April 1991 and March 1997. [click link for full article]

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego; the Rady Children’s Hospital - San Diego; the University of California, San Francisco; and the University of South Alabama determined that television viewing is not only linked to childhood obesity, but also to hypertension in children, according to a study published in the December 2007 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Childhood obesity is a major health concern in the United States. [click link for full article]

Researchers at UCLA have determined the brain circuits involved in hunger that are influenced by a hormone called leptin. In previous clinical trials, supplementation of leptin, the signaling molecule produced by fat cells, produced moderate weight loss in some obese patients, purportedly by inhibiting hunger and promoting feelings of being full. Thus, this new work suggests possible new targets for treating obesity.Reporting in the Oct. [click link for full article]