People are notorious for under-reporting what they consume — they lie, forget or just guess wrong. For researchers who want to know how much soda we're drinking, a high-tech analysis technique could help.
The federal Affordable Care Act, better known as “ObamaCare,” may provide activists and government a little-known wedge to advance their obesity agendas through regulated health-care providers — specifically America’s nearly 3,000...
(MedPage Today) -- Childhood attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder was associated with higher body mass index and obesity in adulthood among men, researchers found.
The Wall Street Journal's Brad Reagan has a monster profile of hedge funder and former Enron natgas trader John Arnold about his plan to change the way billionaires donate their money.
Arnold's plan, Reagan writes, is to take on massive societal...
There are several chronic diseases, such as hypertension and Type 2 diabetes, which are consistently linked to obesity. And since more and more Canadians are becoming obese each year, this is costing us billions of additional dollars in health care.
(MedPage Today) -- Patients taking phentermine long-term to treat obesity don't have to worry about withdrawal when they come off it, researchers found.
(MedPage Today) -- A review of published studies investigating a possible link between sugar-sweetened drinks and obesity found that studies funded by the beverage industry were likely to find little evidence that sodas and juices fuel obesity.
On a daily basis, one can come across a story in the U.S. print or electronic media about the problems faced in this country around the increased number of overweight and obese Americans. These concerns are justified. Obesity is the first step on...