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Breast cancer survivors who experience large weight gain have an increased risk of death after diagnosis, according to research scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, Calif. http://phys.org/news221214964.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:36:14 EST news221214964 College women who engage in "fat talk" (women speaking negatively about the size and shape of their bodies) face greater dissatisfaction with their bodies and are more likely to have internalized an ultra-thin body ideal than those who engage in fat talk less frequently, according to a review article from Psychology of Women Quarterly (published by SAGE). http://phys.org/news220636740.html Medicine & Health Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:59:17 EST news220636740 Women's appreciation of their bodies is only indirectly connected to their body mass index (BMI), a common health measure of weight relative to height, according to recent research. http://phys.org/news220626822.html Medicine & Health Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:40:02 EST news220626822 Childhood obesity in the United States has more than tripled in the past three decades, and prior research has linked maternal employment to children's body mass index (BMI), a measure of their weight-for-height. A new study in the January/February issue of the journal Child Development has found that children's BMI rose the more years their mothers worked over their children's lifetimes. http://phys.org/news216017456.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:20:02 EST news216017456 Obesity is highly heritable, but so far genetic association studies have only explained a small fraction of this heritability. Now, in a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, researchers have identified DNA variants in two nervous system genes that are associated with an excessively high BMI. http://phys.org/news210277909.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:32:03 EST news210277909 In another article being released early online, Cheryl L. Rock, Ph.D., R.D., from Moores UCSD Cancer Center, La Jolla, Calif., and colleagues, conducted a randomized controlled trial of weight loss and weight maintenance in 442 overweight or obese women (BMI, 25 – 40), ages 18 to 69, over a two year period with follow-up between November 2007 and April 2010. http://phys.org/news205853626.html Medicine & Health Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:20:01 EST news205853626 New research from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, shows that sugary drinks, consumed in moderate quantities, do not promote weight gain, carbohydrate craving or adverse mood effects in overweight women when they do not know what they are drinking. http://phys.org/news200739615.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:00:44 EST news200739615 A study examining the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and illness suggests that a BMI of 30 or above, a signal of obesity according to federal health standards, does not translate into current illness among adults under age 40. http://phys.org/news194005424.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 May 2010 11:24:04 EST news194005424 Obesity has long been identified as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and heart failure. But, a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center found that being skinny confers no advantage when it comes to the risk of dying suddenly from cardiac causes. http://phys.org/news187969121.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:20:02 EST news187969121 Breast cancer patients with a high body mass index (BMI) have a poorer cancer prognosis later in life. Specifically, their treatment effect does not last as long and their risk of death increases. http://phys.org/news179672958.html Medicine & Health Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:20:03 EST news179672958 Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference are well known risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVD), but a new study reported in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation today now concludes that these risk factors, when accurately measured by trained staff, can actually predict the risk of fatal and non-fatal disease. The findings, which emerged from a large prospective study of more than 20,000 Dutch men and women aged 20-65 years begun in 1993, show that the associations of BMI and waist circumference with heart disease are equally strong, and explain one half of all fatal and one quarter of non-fatal CVD in those who are overweight and obese. http://phys.org/news179483269.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:28:12 EST news179483269 If obesity trends continue, the negative effect on the health of the U.S. population will overtake the benefits gained from declining smoking rates, according to a study by U-M and Harvard researchers published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. http://phys.org/news178997236.html Medicine & Health Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:40:01 EST news178997236 Women with major depression were no less likely than were women without it to have successful results with a weight loss program, according to an article in the Winter 2009 Behavioral Medicine. Group Health Research Institute Senior Research Associate Evette J. Ludman, PhD, the study leader, concluded that weight loss programs should not exclude depressed people. http://phys.org/news178896618.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:30:55 EST news178896618 Eight-year-old children who drink full-fat milk every day have a lower BMI than those who seldom drink milk. This is not the case for children who often drink medium-fat or low-fat milk. This is one conclusion of a thesis presented at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. http://phys.org/news176467332.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:42:43 EST news176467332 The body mass index (BMI) has long been the yardstick in deciding who is at risk because of their weight. BMI is essentially a measure of density, identifying 'under-' and 'over-weight' risk groups. Recent studies however point towards a more sophisticated approach to the issue. http://phys.org/news175173860.html Medicine & Health Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:24:52 EST news175173860 Most of us are familiar with the term, Body Mass Index, or BMI, as an index to determine healthy body weight. But, calculating BMI involves a complex formula: weight in pounds is multiplied by 703, and then divided by height in inches squared. Charts or online calculators are then used to show a "healthy weight range" given an individual's height that corresponds to the "healthy range BMI." For example, a BMI chart indicates that a healthy range BMI of 19 to 24 translates to a "healthy weight range" of 120 to 150 pounds for a 5-foot, 6-inch individual. http://phys.org/news172513655.html Medicine & Health Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:50:02 EST news172513655 Current primary care policies aimed at reducing obesity and increasing physical activity in children do not work and are very costly to run, according to research published on BMJ.com today. http://phys.org/news171273304.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:55:38 EST news171273304 Many clinicians and public health officials view parental involvement as an essential part of solving the current childhood obesity epidemic. However, it's important for parents to use the right approach when trying to combat childhood obesity. Restrictive feeding practices, or forbidding certain foods, may not always be the best solution. A child's inhibitory control, a behavior similar to self-control, may be more important than parental restrictions. An article and related editorial soon to be published in The Journal of Pediatrics, explore the relationship between a child's low inhibitory control, parental restrictive feeding practices, and childhood weight gain. http://phys.org/news169138440.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:20:03 EST news169138440 The U.S. Food Stamp Program may help contribute to obesity among its users, according to a new nationwide study that followed participants for 14 years. http://phys.org/news169132855.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:21:43 EST news169132855 (AP) -- Eating for two? New guidelines are setting how much weight women should gain during pregnancy - surprisingly little if they're already overweight or obese when they conceive. http://phys.org/news162736483.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 May 2009 13:35:04 EST news162736483 A new study shows that older people who are thinner or are losing weight quickly are at a higher risk of developing dementia, especially if they started out overweight or obese. The research is published in the May 19, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://phys.org/news161883192.html Medicine & Health Mon, 18 May 2009 16:35:36 EST news161883192 France has by far the highest proportion of clinically underweight women in Europe, but only half of them think they are too thin, according to a new study. http://phys.org/news159694775.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:40:11 EST news159694775 A new study shows both obesity and a large belly appear to increase the risk of developing restless legs syndrome (RLS), a common sleep disorder characterized by an irresistible urge to move your legs. The research is published in the April 7, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://phys.org/news158254550.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:36:14 EST news158254550 Socioeconomic status alone might not be as reliable a predictor of body mass index (BMI) in U.S. residents as previously thought, according to a new study. http://phys.org/news157132332.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:52:56 EST news157132332 Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), Boston Medical Center, Harvard University and the Cambridge Health Alliance found that more than 75 percent of emergency responder candidates for fire and ambulance services in Massachusetts are either overweight or obese. The findings, which appear online in the journal Obesity on March 19, have significant consequences for public health and safety. http://phys.org/news156683687.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:16:10 EST news156683687 (PhysOrg.com) -- The prevalence of diabetes is at least twice as high in some ethnic groups as it is in whites, even among people with similar body mass index (BMI) numbers, a large new study finds. http://phys.org/news156615759.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:23:38 EST news156615759 (AP) -- Being obese can take years off your life and in some cases may be as dangerous as smoking, a new study says. British researchers at the University of Oxford analyzed 57 studies mostly in Europe and North America, following nearly one million people for an average of 10 to 15 years. During that time, about 100,000 of those people died. http://phys.org/news156540648.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:31:15 EST news156540648 Headlines tell us the nation is getting fatter, and that obesity has become an epidemic. But there is more to the story, according to one University of Houston sociologist. http://phys.org/news156449671.html Other Sciences Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:15:05 EST news156449671 Nearly half of overweight and obese African Americans who completed a 12-week, faith-based program lost 5 percent or more of their body weight and most kept it off for at least six months, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's 49th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention. http://phys.org/news155914019.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:28:01 EST news155914019 There's more bad news for people who carry excess weight around their waists: Not only is abdominal obesity associated with diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and a host of other health problems collectively known as "metabolic syndrome," a new study has found that a high waist circumference is strongly associated with decreased lung function—independent of smoking history, sex, body mass index (BMI) and other complicating factors. http://phys.org/news155558873.html Medicine & Health Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:48:36 EST news155558873