News tagged with extreme obesity

Extreme obesity associated with higher risk of death for 2009 H1N1 patients

For those infected with the 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus, extreme obesity was a powerful risk factor for death, according to an analysis of a public health surveillance database. In a study to be published in the ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study strengthens link between everyday stress and obesity using an animal model

Bethesda, MD-Stress can take a daily toll on us that has broad physical and psychological implications. Science has long documented the effect of extreme stress, such as war, injury or traumatic grief on humans. Typically, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Extreme obesity affecting more children at younger ages

Extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls now classified as extremely obese, according ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Repeat act: Parallel selection tweaks many of the same genes to make big and heavy mice

Organisms are adapted to their environment through their individual characteristics, like body size and body weight. Such complex traits are usually controlled by many genes. As a result, individuals show ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The heart of the plant

Food prices are soaring at the same time as the Earth's population is nearing 9 billion. As a result the need for increased crop yields is extremely important. New research led by Carnegie's Wolf Frommer into the system by ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Visions of a 'car-free future'

City centers could become virtually car-free over the next 20 years under new plans proposed by University of Leeds transport researchers.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 37

New research links common RNA modification to obesity

An international research team has discovered that a pervasive human RNA modification provides the physiological underpinning of the genetic regulatory process that contributes to obesity and type II diabetes.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

T. rex was bigger than thought: study

The iconic T. rex dinosaur grew bigger and faster than previously estimated, according to new methods based on actual skeletons instead of scale models, British and US scientists said Wednesday.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Marketers target kids with tech

Isabella Sweet doesn't wear a target on her chest. But kid marketers covet this 9-year-old as if she does. Perhaps it's because she's a techie.

Technology / Other

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Standing desks rising in popularity

Last year, Kerri Campbell made a decision: She would no longer sit at her desk eight hours a day. Today, the retail broker for Daymon Worldwide in Pleasanton, Calif., stands on a couple of black pads, each about an inch think. ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New class of compounds offers great potential for research and drug development

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have identified a class of compounds that could be a boon to basic research and drug discovery.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Extreme dieting: does it lead to longer lives?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Animals who consume fewer calories live longer and healthier lives. Now, a seminal study at the University of California, San Francisco is testing whether the same is true for extreme dieters.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Quality of parent-toddler relationship could affect risk for childhood obesity

Toddlers who do not have a secure emotional relationship with their parents, and particularly their mothers, could be at increased risk for obesity by age 4 ½, according to new research.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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