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Low-carb diet speeds initial weight loss: study
Reuters   Saturday, 24 March 2007
Reuters - In a study of overweight and obese people, those who went on a low carbohydrate diet lost more weight -- and more fat -- than their peers who went on a low-fat, portion-controlled diet.
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Dutch hope to invent foods that prevent obesity
Reuters   Friday, 23 March 2007

An overweight woman. The number of obese people in Sweden has doubled in the past 25 years, with one in 10 Swedes now considered largely overweight, a Statistics Sweden study showed.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)Reuters - Scientists in the Netherlands are developing a new generation of foods that can help prevent obesity by making people eat less, a research institute said on Thursday.


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Job strain increases obesity risk
Reuters   Friday, 23 March 2007
Reuters - Being stressed out at work can make you fat, a new study suggests.
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Activity Levels Key to Childhood Obesity
HealthDay   Wednesday, 21 March 2007
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 21 (HealthDay News) -- Low levels of activity -- especially a lack of moderate and vigorous exercise -- play an important role in the development of childhood obesity, says a British study that compared the amount of fat in children to their levels of physical activity.
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Singapore rethinks obesity reduction programme for students
AFP   Wednesday, 21 March 2007

Singapore school children walk along the bay during an excursion trip at the Singapore River waterfront in 2004. Singapore will redesign a programme used to reduce obesity among school children, the education ministry said Tuesday, following criticisms it exposed overweight kids to ridicule.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)AFP - Singapore will redesign a programme used to reduce obesity among school children, the education ministry said Tuesday, following criticisms it exposed overweight kids to ridicule.


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Singapore to scrap anti-obesity program
AP   Tuesday, 20 March 2007

A group of schoolgirls stand in line during their lunch break as they wait their turn in a skipping rope exercise during a Trim and Fit Programme in Singapore in this Aug. 20, 2004 file photo. Singapore plans to end its anti-obesity program in schools, the Education Ministry said, after parents complained that overweight children were being singled out and teased by classmates. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-e, File)AP - Singapore plans to end its anti-obesity program in schools, the Education Ministry said, after parents complained that overweight children were being singled out and teased by classmates.


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Secret to slim kids? Just a little running around
Reuters   Tuesday, 20 March 2007

Children play in the sea in Skegness, eastern England, July 19, 2006. Just 15 minutes a day of kicking around a ball or swimming might be enough to keep children from becoming obese, British and U.S. researchers said on Monday. (Darren Staples/Reuters)Reuters - Just 15 minutes a day of kicking around a ball or swimming might be enough to keep children from becoming obese, British and U.S. researchers said on Monday.


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Obese Men With Prostate Cancer Face Higher Death Risk
HealthDay   Tuesday, 20 March 2007
HealthDay - MONDAY, March 19 (HealthDay News) -- Men who are obese when they're diagnosed with prostate cancer are 2.6 times more likely to die of the disease than normal-weight men, new findings suggest.
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Resistance to Hormone Leptin Called Key to Obesity
HealthDay   Saturday, 17 March 2007
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers may have uncovered the biochemical defect that underlies food-induced obesity in mice.
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Are Common Chemicals Feeding Obesity Epidemic?
HealthDay   Thursday, 15 March 2007
HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to a class of chemicals commonly found in soap and plastics could be fueling the obesity epidemic by contributing to abdominal obesity and insulin resistance in men, a new study suggests.
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Obesity surgery complication studied
AP   Thursday, 15 March 2007
AP - Doctors warn that a few obesity surgery patients have developed a serious neurological condition, with symptoms of confusion and poor coordination, linked to a lack of vitamin B1.
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