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Woman Makes Slimming Down Mississippi Town Her Mission [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsAlthough two-thirds of Mississippi residents are overweight, one woman has made it her mission to encourage her town to lose the weight -- and the bad reputation. ...
Too Short, Too Fat -- Even Too Attractive -- to Be President?
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyIs Mitch Daniels too short and balding to be president? Are Haley Barbour, Chris Christie and Newt Gingrich too fat? Mitt Romney too handsome? Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann too thin and beautiful? Granted, it's a little early to know who's actually running and whether Republicans will nominate someone with a pretty face, low body-mass-index, great hair and above-average stature, or instead go for ideology sans cosmetology, and let policy trump physique. But with the first GOP debate of the 2012 campaign set for May 2, and with height, weight and attractiveness already being discussed ...
New Dietary Guidelines Call for Less Salt, Sugar, Solid Fat
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsWith the new year here and Americans everywhere trying to lose weight, the federal government's new dietary guidelines released today call for cutbacks in salt as well as in calories from added sugar and solid fats like butter. The guidelines, which come out every five years, tell people 51 and older, all blacks and people with hypertension, diabetes and chronic kidney disease to cut their salt intake to 1,500 milligrams, or a little more than half a teaspoon a day. The recommendation for sodium applies to about half the U.S. population; everyone else should be limited to less than ...
Could Obesity Be Caused by Extra-Small Brain Region?
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 28) -- Obese teens and lean ones exhibit a key difference in brain composition that might explain either the cause of obesity, or further illuminate a health risk of carrying extra body weight. In a study of 91 teenagers, 54 of whom were categorized as "obese" according to the body mass index, researchers determined that obesity was related to the size of a brain region implicated in impulsive behavior and self-monitoring. Those regions were relatively bigger among leaner teenagers, and smaller in obese study participants. All the study participants were given questionnaires on their ...
Study: Obesity Is More Expensive for Women
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Sept. 21) -- Obesity hurts your health, but it also hurts your wallet. That's the conclusion of a new study by George Washington University scholars who've tabulated the cost of being obese, compared to merely being overweight. The results found that obesity costs women almost twice as much as men. And it's more than nine times as costly for women to be obese, rather than just overweight. Researchers tabulated the cost of medical bills, employee sick days, health insurance, lost productivity and even the need for extra gasoline to fuel cars carrying heavier passengers. In total, they ...
Fattening Flu? Childhood Obesity Linked to Cold Virus
By Katie Drummond - AOL News
(Sept. 20) -- Researchers think they've found another piece to the complex puzzle of what's causing a rise in childhood obesity worldwide: Kids who've suffered from a common cold virus are also more likely to be significantly heavier than their peers. What the study found In a small study of 124 youths, slightly more than half of them obese, researchers concluded that 15 obese children had antibodies for the virus known as AD36 -- meaning they'd suffered from it at some point -- compared with only four normal-weight children. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Sixteen percent of children in the ...
Study: More Than Weight, Larger Waistlines Shrink Lifetimes
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Aug. 9) -- No matter the number on the scale, a bigger waist significantly increases one's risk of death from a myriad of causes, including respiratory disease and cardiovascular conditions. That's the sobering reminder from a major new study that tracked more than 100,000 American adults and is published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine. A team of researchers with the American Cancer Society followed 48,500 men and 56,343 women, all of them older than 55. Participants' waist circumferences were first obtained in 1997 and tracked until 2006. Within all categories of the body ...
Study Ties Maternal Weight Gain to Child Obesity
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Aug. 4) -- Researchers have already established that excessive maternal weight gain causes babies to be born overweight and increases their lifetime risk of obesity. But a new study has found that the connection persists even when mother and baby aren't genetically predisposed to higher body mass. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, whose work is published online today in The Lancet, looked at the records of 513,501 women in Michigan and New Jersey, all of whom gave birth to two or more children from 1989 to 2003. Women who gained relatively more weight during pregnancy, 44 to 49 ...
Fat Becoming More Than a Name in China
By David Moye - AOL News(July 6) -- As the Chinese economy beefs up, so are its citizens ... to the point where "Fat" is no longer just a popular name, but also the description for 100 million Chinese citizens. That number is small compared to China's 1.5 billion population, but experts fear the number of obese citizens could double in 10 years. What is the reason for all the super-sizing? According to Los Angeles-based bariatric surgeon Dr. Carson Liu, it's a case of East meets West. ...
Child Obesity in US Higher Than Ever
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Feb. 9) -- It's easy to see why Michelle Obama has launched a campaign to prevent America's children from putting on too much weight. Just look around the nation's schools and malls. Or, more to point of the first lady's Let's Move program, look at the kids sitting motionless in the glow of video screens from coast to coast. The chart below illustrates the dramatic increase in childhood obesity during the past three decades. Statistics collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from a variety of studies over the years show the percentage of school-age children (6-19) ...
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