Reuters - Obese children who watch a lot
of television are more likely to have high blood pressure than
heavy children who don’t spend as much time in front of the
tube, the results of a new study shows.
Reuters - Obesity decreases the chances that a
woman will get pregnant, and the more obese she is, the worse
her prospects of conception, Dutch researchers said on Tuesday.
AFP - Obese mice are less able to fight off bacterial infection than lean mice, according to a study released Monday that supports emerging evidence of a link between obesity and a dysfunctional immune system.
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) — Obesity and diabetes — risk
factors so often linked to heart disease — can also affect the incidence
and severity of cancer, a collection of four new studies suggests.
AFP - The epidemic of obesity among US teenagers could lead to double digit increases in cases of heart disease and heart-disease related deaths by 2035, according to a new study.
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) — Overweight children and
adolescents are more likely to be overweight or obese adults and more
likely to suffer early heart disease and death, two new studies
conclude.
Reuters - The number of obese children will grow
dramatically in the coming years and so will their death rates
from heart disease, according to a pair of studies from the
United States and Denmark published on Wednesday.
Reuters - More than half of British mothers
who died during child birth were overweight, a report found on
Tuesday.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 29 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. National Institutes of
Health and the Association of Children’s Museums are teaming up on a
program to combat the obesity epidemic among America’s children.
AFP - After rising steadily for a quarter century, the rate of obesity in the United States appears to be leveling off, although it remains alarmingly high, a US government report concluded Thursday.