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Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Many experts and organizations have been advocating regular physical exercise—like the NFL’s Play 60, which encourages kids to be active for an hour each day, and every so often a study comes along that reinforces the benefits of exercise for people of any age. According to a new report from an international team of researchers, recently published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine, regular physical activity during leisure...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Getting a good night's sleep is important to be healthy. However, a number of problems can prevent us from having a restful night. One such problem is being overweight or obese--an issue that has been studied immensely and closely linked to sleep deprivation. Now, a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has found that weight loss, whether it be from dietary changes or from diet and exercise, can...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Zafgen, Inc., a leading biopharmaceutical company dedicated to addressing the unmet needs of severely obese patients, today announced that it has initiated Phase 2a clinical testing of beloranib. This milestone follows the completion of three consecutive Phase 1b studies demonstrating rapid weight loss, reductions in body fat, improvements in cardiovascular risk factors and encouraging tolerability. Beloranib, a novel therapy for...

University of Alberta medical research supports the 'obesity paradox' Medical researchers at the University of Alberta studied the records of nearly 1000 patients who were admitted to hospital with pneumonia and noted those who were obese were more apt to survive compared to those who were of normal weight. For their research study, the team examined the records of 907 patients with pneumonia who were admitted to six Edmonton hospitals and also had their body mass index recorded....

BOSTON, Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ChildObesity180, in collaboration with Tufts University, has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation to support its Healthy Kids Out of School initiative in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. This award is part of the foundation's Growing Up Healthy initiative, which supports organizations working with children to encourage healthy behaviors. (Logo:...

Soda consumption, TV and video/computer games, and the frequency of meals heavily influenced students' weight in an Indiana University study that examined the impact of a school-based obesity intervention program over an 18-month period. More soda consumption and screen time meant students were more likely to be overweight or to gain weight. The more frequently students ate meals each day, the less likely they were to stay overweight or gain weight during the study, which examined the...

High birth weight and early rapid weight gain additional factors Mums who carry too much weight and/or who smoke during pregnancy increase the risk of having overweight kids, indicates a systematic analysis of the available evidence published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. A high birth weight and rapid weight gain during the first year of life also increase the risk, indicates the study. The authors base their findings on a comprehensive review of the available...

Being overweight and obese during adolescence appears related to an increased risk of all-cause treated end-stage renal disease (ESRD) during a 25-year period, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. Children and adolescents with high body mass index (BMI) often become obese adults, and obese adults are at risk for chronic conditions such as diabetes, which can mean future risk of chronic kidney disease and ESRD, according...

Researchers find that babies born to mothers who lost weight after bariatric surgery have fewer cardiovascular risk factors than siblings born before the surgery Kids born to moms who have lost a substantial amount of weight after undergoing bariatric surgery have fewer cardiovascular risk factors than their siblings who were born before the weight loss surgery. This is because the metabolic changes and weight loss that occur after the surgery have a positive effect on inflammatory...

-- CHOP Scientists Use Versatile Gene Discovery Chip to Detect Gene Variants Involved in Biology of Obesity -- PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A large international study has identified three new gene variants associated with body mass index (BMI) levels in adults. The scientific consortium, numbering approximately 200 researchers, performed a meta-analysis of 46 studies, covering gene data from nearly 109,000 adults, spanning four ethnic groups. In...