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Although smoking rates in teenagers has been down for years, researchers have found that girls are starting to smoke in the hope of losing weight.According to a recent study by the American Journal of Health Promotion teenage girls dieting during the two-year study were almost twice as likely to take up smoking than those not dieting. Conversely, the study found that teenage boys turned to cigarettes after attempting and failing at dieting. [click link for full article]

Medically-complicated obesity is a societal problem that needs to be solved. Liver disease, specifically non-alcoholic steatohepatitis or NASH, is just one of the many complications of increased body weight. Treatment options for NASH are limited, and therefore there is an unmet need for pharmacologic treatment of this liver disease. A recent article in World Journal of Gastroenterology by Dr. Baski-Bey et al. [click link for full article]

Children with Down syndrome are more likely than their unaffected siblings to have higher levels of a hormone associated with obesity, according to pediatric researchers. The hormone, leptin, may contribute to the known higher risk of obesity among children and adults with Down syndrome. A research team from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine published their study online today in the Journal of Pediatrics. [click link for full article]

A brain-imaging study of genetically obese rats conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory provides more evidence that dopamine — a brain chemical associated with reward, pleasure, movement, and motivation — plays a role in obesity. The scientists found that genetically obese rats had lower levels of dopamine D2 receptors than lean rats. [click link for full article]

Slimming World is delighted to have been selected as one of the only commercial sector organisations to feature on the NHS Choices website healthy living guides (http://www.nhs.uk). From the end of October, people searching for weight management support will be able to access information about Slimming World groups on the internet, from home, from public libraries or from hundreds of pharmacies across the country. [click link for full article]

Postmenopausal women are at an age when the incidence and exacerbation of the chronic health conditions associated with obesity become more prevalent. A new article published in Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing reviews the physiological, psychological and social issues related to obesity that are relevant to postmenopausal women. The article underlies the importance of nurses and other healthcare professionals for intervention. [click link for full article]

University of Cincinnati (UC) pathologists have identified a new molecular target that one day may help scientists develop drugs to reduce fat transport to adipocytes (fat cells) in the body and prevent obesity and related disorders, like diabetes. [click link for full article]

With adult and childhood obesity figures reaching alarming totals, UniCare Health Plan of West Virginia, Inc. (UniCare) continues to be an innovator for solutions. UniCare will announce later that the company will travel the state to offer training to physicians and their staff on ways to help detect, prevent and manage obesity in both adults and children. [click link for full article]

IBM plans to launch a program that will offer employees monetary incentive to have their children participate in obesity education, the Wall Street Journal reports.The program, scheduled to begin next year, will pay $150 to workers who sign up a child who completes a 12-week online program of diet and exercise training. [click link for full article]

Previously hidden obesity-related genes have been uncovered from old experiments by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. The finding suggests that useful information about many medical disorders may be languishing in mountains of discarded data. [click link for full article]