http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. It doesn't seem like a fair fight. In one corner loomed the Thanksgiving table, groaning with poultry, pie and mashed potatoes. http://www.physorg.com/news178554433.html Medicine & Health Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:27:40 EST news178554433 Existing research shows that rates of binge eating among adult women is virtually identical across race. However, among college age women, it's a different story: Caucasian women are more apt to exhibit binge eating behaviors than African American women, according to a study presented at this month's annual scientific meeting of the Obesity Society. http://www.physorg.com/news175701659.html Medicine & Health Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:01:19 EST news175701659 Obese women who gain more than the recommended amount during pregnancy are much more likely to retain a portion of that weight one year after they give birth, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the November issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. http://www.physorg.com/news175364521.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:50:16 EST news175364521 (PhysOrg.com) -- Changing your focus from dieting to living healthy during the holidays boosts the chances of maintaining your perfect weight. http://www.physorg.com/news174917098.html Medicine & Health Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:30:01 EST news174917098 A study in the September 4th issue of the journal Cell identifies a gene that springs into action in response to a high fat diet. Mice that lack the gene become essentially immune to growing obese, regardless of their eating habits. http://www.physorg.com/news171203258.html Biology Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:28:02 EST news171203258 (PhysOrg.com) -- Eat less, exercise more. Now there is new evidence to support adding another "must" to the weight-loss mantra: eat at the right time of day. http://www.physorg.com/news171192387.html Medicine & Health Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:30:10 EST news171192387 Body mass in younger and older adulthood, and weight gain between these periods of life, may influence a man's risk for prostate cancer. This risk varies among different ethnic populations, according to results of a study in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news171031644.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:40:01 EST news171031644 The U.S. Food Stamp Program may help contribute to obesity among its users, according to a new nationwide study that followed participants for 14 years. http://www.physorg.com/news169132855.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:21:43 EST news169132855 Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have identified women who are likely to gain weight while using depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, more commonly known as Depo-Provera or the birth control shot. These findings dispel the myth that all women who use DMPA will gain weight and will help physicians to counsel patients appropriately. http://www.physorg.com/news167668697.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:38:45 EST news167668697 Healthy, normal-weight women pregnant with twins should gain between 37 and 54 pounds, according to research from a Michigan State University professor who helped shape the recently released national guidelines on gestational weight gain. http://www.physorg.com/news167407315.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:02:27 EST news167407315 Stressing out can cause people to gain weight, according to a study appearing in the July 15 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. This new study is believed to be one of the first of its kind to look at the relationship between weight gain and multiple types of stress -job-related demands, difficulty paying bills, strained family relationships, depression or anxiety disorder -in the U.S. population. http://www.physorg.com/news166182007.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:40:36 EST news166182007 A new study by marketing researchers at the University of Arkansas indicates that many consumers have a poor understanding of the calorie, fat and sodium content of quick-service restaurant meals. This finding is especially true for less healthful meals, such as a cheeseburger with fries and regular (not diet) soft drink. http://www.physorg.com/news164550443.html Other Sciences Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:40:07 EST news164550443 Psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania have identified a cognitive shortcut, or heuristic, they call "Unit Bias," which causes people to ignore vital, obvious information in their decision-making process, points to a fundamental flaw in the modern, evolved mind and may also play a role in the American population's 30 years of weight gain. http://www.physorg.com/news164295744.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:43:36 EST news164295744 While fatherhood might be far from the minds of most young men, behavior patterns they establish early on may impact their ability to become a dad later in life. Excessive laptop use tops this list of liabilities, according to one reproductive specialist at Loyola University Health System (LUHS). http://www.physorg.com/news163991430.html Medicine & Health Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:10:01 EST news163991430 According to new research, in the presence of free access to food, sleep restricted subjects reported decrease in appetite, food cravings and food consumption; however, they gained weight over the course of the study. Thus, the finding suggests that energy intake exceeded energy expenditure during the sleep restriction http://www.physorg.com/news163645622.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:08:04 EST news163645622 A new study published online in the journal Obesity provides further evidence that strict maternal control over eating habits - such as determining how much a child should eat and coaxing them to eat certain foods - during early childhood may not lead to significant future weight gain in boys or girls. Instead, this behavior may be a response to concerns over a child's increasing weight. http://www.physorg.com/news162566711.html Medicine & Health Tue, 26 May 2009 14:28:05 EST news162566711 (AP) -- Marketing executives at British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC for years blocked efforts by company scientists to raise concerns antipsychotic drug Seroquel caused weight gain and other problems, saying that would harm sales, plaintiff lawyers say. http://www.physorg.com/news162041479.html Medicine & Health Wed, 20 May 2009 12:31:43 EST news162041479 As the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States continues, researchers are examining whether early parent and child behaviors contribute to the problem. A study from the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, published in the May/June 2009 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior reports that mothers who miss signs of satiety in their infants tend to overfeed them, leading to excess weight gains during the 6 month to 1 year period. http://www.physorg.com/news161229069.html Medicine & Health Mon, 11 May 2009 02:52:11 EST news161229069 New research that uses an innovative approach to study, for the first time, the relative contributions of food and exercise habits to the development of the obesity epidemic has concluded that the rise in obesity in the United States since the 1970s was virtually all due to increased energy intake. http://www.physorg.com/news160983988.html Medicine & Health Fri, 08 May 2009 06:47:01 EST news160983988 (PhysOrg.com) -- As childhood obesity continues its thirty-year advance from occasional curiosity to cultural epidemic, health care providers are struggling to find out why--and the reasons are many. Increasingly sedentary environments for both adults and children, as well as cheap and ubiquitous processed foods no doubt play a role, but researchers are finding more evidence that the first clues for childhood obesity may begin as far back as early infancy. http://www.physorg.com/news157616570.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:23:23 EST news157616570 Antipsychotic drugs, such as olanzapine (Zyprexa), risperidone (Risperdal) and quetiapine (Seroquel), are commonly used to treat psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, but also bipolar disorder and even behavioral problems related to dementia. Unfortunately, the weight gain commonly experienced with antipsychotic treatment is an important side effect for many patients, and causes many patients to discontinue their use leading to even further problems. Biological Psychiatry, in its April 1st issue, is now publishing a new study that has evaluated an add-on treatment to potentially reduce treatment-associated weight gain. http://www.physorg.com/news157280634.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:04:18 EST news157280634 Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) have found that a key enzyme involved in absorbing fat may also be a key to reducing it. The enzyme, acyl CoA: monoacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 or Mgat2 is found in the intestines and plays an important part in the uptake of dietary fat by catalyzing a critical step in making triglyceride, a kind of fat. Triglyceride accounts for nearly one-third of the fat eaten by people in developed countries. http://www.physorg.com/news156419535.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:53:09 EST news156419535 Small changes can lead to big rewards, such as maintaining a healthy weight, American Society for Nutrition (ASN) President James O. Hill, PhD, describes in a recent report. The article, to be published in the February issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is written by Hill on behalf of a joint task force of ASN, the Institute of Food Technologists, and the International Food Information Council. http://www.physorg.com/news151072771.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:39:31 EST news151072771 The research was carried out by a team of researchers led by Sharon Herring, MD, MPH, an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Temple University. She said, "Compared to normal weight women who accurately assessed their pre-pregnancy weight status, the odds of gaining excessively during pregnancy were increased seven-fold among overweight and obese women who thought they weighed less than they really did. Normal weight women who thought they were overweight had twice the odds of excessive gestational weight gain." http://www.physorg.com/news149169633.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:00:33 EST news149169633 A drug designed to specifically hit a protein linked to the life-extending benefits of a meager diet can essentially trick the body into believing food is scarce even when it isn't, suggests a new report in the November Cell Metabolism. http://www.physorg.com/news145021393.html Medicine & Health Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:43:13 EST news145021393 According to new research from the Monell Center, the degree of change in blood triglyceride levels following a fatty meal may indicate susceptibility to diet-induced obesity. The findings open doors to new methods of identifying people, including children, who are at risk for becoming obese. http://www.physorg.com/news144668909.html Medicine & Health Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:48:29 EST news144668909 A study by the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research of more than 40,000 women and their babies found that women who gained more than 40 pounds during their pregnancies were nearly twice as likely to have a heavy baby. Published in the November issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the study found that more than one in five women gains excessive weight during pregnancy, doubling her chances of having a baby that weighs 9 pounds or more. http://www.physorg.com/news144652184.html Medicine & Health Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:09:44 EST news144652184 Research has not proven that the Pill causes weight gain. But many women are put off using contraceptive pills because this has been listed as one of their adverse effects. Their concern may be narrowing their contraceptive choices without good reason, according to the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG). Different forms of contraception have other advantages and disadvantages that need to be weighed up for each individual. The Institute has assessed the research on several current issues in contraception and weight control and has now published easy-to-understand information about this on its website informedhealthonline.org. http://www.physorg.com/news144598552.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:15:52 EST news144598552 The brains of obese people seem to respond to a tasty treat with less vigor than the brains of their leaner peers, suggesting obese people may overeat to compensate for a reduced reward response, according to a new brain imaging and genetics study conducted by researchers at Yale University, The John B. Pierce Laboratory, the University of Texas and Oregon Research Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news143383142.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:39:02 EST news143383142 Eating too much fructose can induce leptin resistance, a condition that can easily lead to becoming overweight when combined with a high-fat, high-calorie diet, according to a new study with rats. http://www.physorg.com/news143350658.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:37:38 EST news143350658