http://medicineworld.org/news/weight-watch-news.html MedicineWorld.Org brings daily weight watch news from various sources to keep you updated on the latest events in the world on this topic. Medicineworld weight watch news service is the most comprehensive weight watch news service on the internet. We keep an archive of previous few days of news on this site. Please go down through the list to find the older news items. Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT en-us http://medicineworld.org/images/weight-watch.jpg http://medicineworld.org/news/weight-watch-news.html 109 87 http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/eithout-becoming-obese.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/eithout-becoming-obese.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT Berkeley -- Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified a new enzyme that plays a far more important role than expected in controlling the breakdown of fat. In a newly released study would be published Jan. 11 in the journal Nature Medicine, scientists report that mice that have had this enzyme disabled remained lean despite eating a high-fat diet and losing a hormone that suppresses appetite........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/help-for-the-overweight-over-the-phone.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/help-for-the-overweight-over-the-phone.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT Counselling via the phone and internet can help weight management in overweight individuals, as per a Dutch study reported in the open access journal, BMC Public Health The project compared counselling via phone and e-mail with the standard practice of issuing self-help literature in approximately 1400 workers as an aid to weight management. The study was undertaken by a group led by Willem Van Mechelen of the Department of Public and Occupational Health/EMGO Institute of VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This study was funded by The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development, The Netherlands Heart Foundation and Body@Work TNO-VUmc........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/obesity-starts-in-the-head.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/obesity-starts-in-the-head.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT Joint press release by the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the German National Genome Research Network. Neuherberg, 2008-01-08. Obesity is known to increase the risk of chronic disorders, such as diabetes (type 2). An international team of researchers with German participation through the Helmholtz Zentrum München identified six new obesity genes. Gene expression analyses have shown that all six genes are active in brain cells........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/catching-sports-cheats.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/catching-sports-cheats.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT Avoiding detection just got harder for drug cheats who try to use a particular range of untested, but potentially enhancing, compounds. In the past, tests have been developed once a drug is known to be in circulation. Now a German research team has developed tests for a class of drugs that they believe could be used in the near future........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/blood-vessels-to-combat-obesity.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/blood-vessels-to-combat-obesity.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT Mice exposed to low temperatures develop more blood vessels in their adipose tissue and metabolise body fat more quickly, as per a newly released study from Karolinska Institutet. Researchers now hope to learn how to control blood vessel development in humans in order to combat obesity and diabetes........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/link-between-physical-inactivity-and-obesity.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/link-between-physical-inactivity-and-obesity.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT A recent international study fails to support the common belief that the number of calories burned in physical activity is a key factor in rising rates of obesity. Scientists from Loyola University Health System and other centers compared African American women in metropolitan Chicago with women in rural Nigeria. On average, the Chicago women weighed 184 pounds and the Nigerian women weighed 127 pounds........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/find-some-to-locate-a-healthy-meal-place.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/find-some-to-locate-a-healthy-meal-place.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT As adolescents mature into young adults, increasing time constraints due to school or work can begin to impact eating habits in a negative way. As per a research findings reported in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, scientists found that while young adults enjoy and value time spent eating with others, 35% of males and 42% of females reported lacking time to sit down and eat a meal. They further noted that "eating on the run" was correlation to higher consumption of unhealthy items like fast foods and lower consumption of a number of healthful foods........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/wii-fit-can-promote-physical-activities.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2009/wii-fit-can-promote-physical-activities.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT While some emerging technologies can create environments that require very little physical effort, one Kansas State University researcher thinks games like Nintendo's Wii Fit can help promote physical rather than sedentary activities for people of all ages. "I think there is a great potential to develop ways to promote physical activity through technology," said David Dzewaltowski, professor and head of the department of kinesiology at K-State and director of the university's Community Health Institute. "Kids innately like to move, so I think that there is a big future in games that use emerging technologies and require movement because the games will be enjoyed by children and also be more healthy than existing games"........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2008/weight-issues-in-children-starting-school.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2008/weight-issues-in-children-starting-school.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT Immigrant children have a greater risk of suffering from overweight and obesity. This is the result of a study from Augsburg with 2306 children examined on starting school. Elisabeth Weber and her coauthors present the results in the current issue of Deutsches rzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztbl Int 2008; 105 [51-52]: 883-9). The doctors recorded not only the age, sex, weight, and height of the children, but also their mother tongue. Their parents had to answer a questionnaire covering sporting activity, amount of television watched, and eating behavior........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2008/nutritious-fast-food-kids-meals-are-scarce.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2008/nutritious-fast-food-kids-meals-are-scarce.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT Only 3 percent of kids' meals served at fast-food restaurants met federal dietary guidelines in the first study to examine the nutrient quality of such meals in a major U.S. metropolitan market. Michigan State University's Sharon Hoerr, a food science and human nutrition researcher with the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, teamed up with economist Sharon O'Donnell and pediatrician Jason Mendoza from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to assess the nutritional status of kids' meals in the Houston market........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2008/how-you-see-yourself-while-pregnant.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2008/how-you-see-yourself-while-pregnant.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT Body image is a tricky thing for a number of women. Like looking into a funhouse mirror, the way they perceive their bodies can make them think they're thinner or more obese than they actually are. Scientists led by Temple University's Sharon Herring, MD, MPH, have observed that this misperception is linked to excess weight gain during pregnancy which can cause complications for both mother and baby........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2008/help-children-achieve-healthier-weights.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2008/help-children-achieve-healthier-weights.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT Group-based therapy programs may effectively combat childhood obesity in rural communities, as per a new University of Florida study. Children who participated in one of two group programs family-based or parent-only were less overweight compared with children in a control group. The findings are reported in the recent issue of Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine....... ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2008/women-double-fruit-veggie-intake.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2008/women-double-fruit-veggie-intake.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT Mich. In a new study led by the University of Michigan Health System, women more than doubled their fruit and vegetable intakes and dramatically increased their consumption of "good" fats when they were counseled by registered dietitians and provided with a list of guidelines on the amount of certain foods they should eat each day........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2008/circumcision-reduces-the-risk-of-hiv-infection.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2008/circumcision-reduces-the-risk-of-hiv-infection.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT A new U.S. study has observed that being circumcised significantly reduced the risk of HIV infection in heterosexual African American men known to have been exposed to the virus. The findings complement those of recently reported clinical trials in Africa, where interventional use of adult male circumcision similarly reduced the risk of HIV infection in heterosexual men. The findings of the new study, along with similar results from other studies, suggest that circumcision may protect other heterosexual males in the U.S. The promising new findings are published in the January 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2008/fast-food-meals-are-smaller-have-fewer-calories.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2008/fast-food-meals-are-smaller-have-fewer-calories.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:17:08 GMT A new study in the Review of Agricultural Economics compares fast food and table service meals at restaurants. Results show that both are larger and have more calories than meals prepared at home, with the typical fast food meal being smaller and having fewer calories than the average meal from a table service restaurant........ ]]>