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School PE Programs Don’t Lower Childhood Obesity Recently, the BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver conducted a study of more than 18,000 elementary students and found that although school fitness...

Experimental Parkinson’s Therapy May Have Robust Weight-Loss Effect In clinical experiments focused on rescuing dying brain cells in Parkinson’s patients using a growth factor called GDNF,...

Even Moderate Obesity Shortens Life Expectancy According to new analysis of 57 studies that involved a total of nearly a million subjects, researchers have found that being obese can shorten a...

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Exposure to Insecticide Linked to Female Obesity Researchers at Michigan State University have found that prenatal exposure to DDT, an insecticide commonly used up until the 1970s, may play a role in...

Researchers Find Gene that Turns Carbs into Fat A team of U. S. researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, who are performing a study of the formation, development and storage of fat at...

Recent Studies Suggest Connection Between Obesity and Dementia At one time or another, we’ve all experienced “losing our marbles.”  However, dementia is no laughing matter. None of us can...

Study Shows Obesity Puts Toddlers at Risk Almost 17% percent of U.S. kids ages 2 to 19 are obese, according to the CDC. And now a nationwide study of children 3 to 6 years old by the University of...