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Obesity Is Now A Disease, American Medical Association Decides
Obesity has been officially recognized as a disease by the American Medical Association, an action that could put more emphasis on the health condition by doctors and insurance companies in order to minimize its effects. The new decision was made at the AMA's annual meeting on Tuesday by delegates in Chicago, and went against a recommendation by a committee that had studied the subject... (Medical News Today)

Fat Tissues In Sheep Affected By Prenatal Exposure To BPA
New research suggests that fetal exposure to the common environmental chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, causes increased inflammation in fat tissues after birth, which can lead to obesity and metabolic syndrome. Results of the animal study were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco... (Medical News Today)

Weight Loss Promoted By Drug Combination In Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Women with polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, lost significantly more weight when they took two drugs that are traditionally used to treat diabetes, rather than either drug alone, a study from Slovenia demonstrates. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. PCOS is the leading cause of infertility among women... (Medical News Today)

Obese Women Who Skip Breakfast At Greater Risk For Insulin Resistance
Overweight women who skip breakfast experience acute, or rapid-onset, insulin resistance, a condition that, when chronic, is a risk factor for diabetes, a new study finds... (Medical News Today)

The Importance Of A Father's Diet Before Conception
When fathers eat a high-fat diet before conception of offspring, the male offspring have increased body weight after weaning and high body fat in midlife despite eating a low-fat diet, a new study in mice finds. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco... (Medical News Today)

Relationship Between Short-Term Antidepressant Use, Stress, High-Fat Diet And Long-Term Weight Gain
Short-term use of antidepressants, combined with stress and a high-fat diet, is associated with long-term increases in body weight, a new animal study finds. The results were presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco... (Medical News Today)

Nerve Cell Properties Altered By Diet Restored By Bariatric Surgery
Understanding how gastric bypass surgery changes the properties of nerve cells that help regulate the digestive system could lead to new treatments that produce the same results without surgery, according to Penn State College of Medicine scientists, who have shown how surgery restores some properties of nerve cells that tell people their stomachs are full... (Medical News Today)

Obese Children With Impaired Heart Function At Greater Risk Of Later Disease
Impaired heart function among obese children and adolescents may be an indicator of future heart disease, a new clinical trial finds. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Obesity rates in developed countries worldwide are climbing among all age groups, including children... (Medical News Today)

Overweight Women Who Lose Weight Experience Improved Memory
Memory improves in older, overweight women after they lose weight by dieting, and their brain activity actually changes in the regions of the brain that are important for memory tasks, a new study finds. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco... (Medical News Today)

In Obese And Overweight Children, Vitamin D Deficiency Linked To Increased Allergy Risk And Severity
One reason why obese children and teenagers are more likely to have hard-to-control asthma and allergies may be vitamin D deficiency, a new study finds. Results of the study were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco... (Medical News Today)

Heart Failure And Hypertension Meds May Help Decrease Obesity
A type of drug normally used to treat heart failure and high blood pressure helped prevent weight gain and other complications related to a high-fat diet in an animal study. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco... (Medical News Today)

Variants In The SIM1 Gene Associated With Severe Obesity
Although body weight is largely determined by lifestyle factors, increasingly research is revealing that genetics also play an important role in determining an individual's susceptibility to obesity... (Medical News Today)

Fat Tissue's Calorie-Burning Ability Boosted In Lab
A drug that mimics the activity of thyroid hormone significantly increases the amount of energy burned by fat tissue and promotes weight loss, an animal study of metabolism finds. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Humans and other mammals have two kinds of fat, or adipose, tissue, which are referred to by color: white or brown... (Medical News Today)

Marketing Unhealthy Foods To Children Is "Disastrous"
The marketing of unhealthy food to children has been disastrously effective and is only making childhood obesity even more of a problem, says The World Health Organization (WHO). WHO is calling for more control on marketing unhealthy foods high in sugars, salt, and trans fats. These types of foods are only contributing to the ever-increasing childhood obesity pandemic... (Medical News Today)

Brain Inflammation Due To Obesity Compounded By Low Testosterone
Low testosterone worsens the harmful effects of obesity in the nervous system, a new study in mice finds. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco... (Medical News Today)

Blood Sugar Control Improved By Weight Loss Drug Plus Diet And Exercise
The new weight loss drug lorcaserin (Belviq) appears to improve blood sugar control in nondiabetic, overweight individuals, independent of the amount of weight they lose, a new study finds. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco... (Medical News Today)

Excess Stress Hormones Found In Obese Men After Eating
Overweight and obese men secrete greater amounts of stress hormones after eating, which may make them more susceptible to disease, a new observational study finds. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco... (Medical News Today)

Lack Of Sleep May Trigger The 'Munchies' By Raising Levels Of An Appetite Stimulant
Insufficient sleep may contribute to weight gain and obesity by raising levels of a substance in the body that is a natural appetite stimulant, a new study finds. The results were presented today at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The researchers found that when healthy, lean, young adults received only 4... (Medical News Today)

How Paternal Diet And Weight May Impact Offspring
Male mice who were fed a high-fat diet and became obese were more likely to father offspring who also had higher levels of body fat, a new Ohio University study finds. The effect was observed primarily in male offspring, despite their consumption of a low-fat diet, scientists reported at the annual meeting of The Endocrine Society in San Francisco, Calif... (Medical News Today)

Remission In Early RA Less Likely For Overweight And Obese Patients
A new study presented today at EULAR 2013, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, shows that overweight and obese patients are less likely to achieve successful remission in early rheumatoid arthritis (ERA) compared to those of normal weight. Obese and overweight ERA subjects required 2... (Medical News Today)

Cocoa Powder Effective In Treating Obesity-Related Inflammation In Mouse Model
A few cups of hot cocoa may not only fight off the chill of a winter's day, but they could also help obese people better control inflammation-related diseases, such as diabetes, according to Penn State researchers... (Medical News Today)

The Effectiveness Of Green Coffee Bean Weight-Loss Supplements Questioned
A major ingredient in those green coffee bean dietary supplements - often touted as "miracle" weight-loss products - doesn't prevent weight gain in obese laboratory mice fed a high-fat diet when given at higher doses. That's the conclusion of a first-of-its-kind study published in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry... (Medical News Today)

Rate Of Children Treated For Obesity-Related Conditions Shows Four-Fold Rise
The number of children admitted to hospital for problems related to obesity in England and Wales quadrupled between 2000 and 2009, a study has found. Nearly three quarters of these admissions were to deal with problems complicated by obesity such as asthma, breathing difficulties during sleep, and complications of pregnancy, rather than obesity itself being the primary reason... (Medical News Today)

Proposed Efforts To Restrict Marketing Of Large Sodas Can Have A Substantial Impact On Population Health
Legislation to restrict consumption of large sugar-sweetened beverages in food service establishments would affect 7.5% of Americans on a given day, and a greater percentage among those who are overweight, including 13.6% of overweight teenagers, according to researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health... (Medical News Today)

Predicting Obesity During Infancy
Infants as young as two months old already exhibit growth patterns that can predict the child's weight by age 5, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and Tennessee State University... (Medical News Today)

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