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beSpacific (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
"The country will never be able to contain rates of chronic diseases and health care costs until we find ways to keep Americans healthier. But right now, Americans are not as healthy as they could be or should be. . The childhood obesity epidemic is putting today’s youth on course to potentially be the first generation to live shorter, less healthy lives than their parents. This report, the...
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Childhood neglect and abuse can leave mental and physical scars, but a new study in the journal Obesity suggests there may also be a correlation between abuse and obesity. Researchers looked at court records of 410 children up to age 11 from 1967 to 1971 in a Midwest county who had court-substantiated cases of physical and sexual abuse and neglect. They were matched with 303 children...
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Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Compounding the mental and physical pain that accompanies childhood abuse, a new study suggests abuse may lead to adult obesity. Researchers studied 410 children who had court-substantiated cases of physical and sexual abuse before the age of 11; 30 years later, their body mass index scores were compared with a...
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Weight Loss Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Studies indicate that the obesity epidemic starts at an early age. Approximately 80% of children who were obese during their youth (10 to 15 years of age) became obese adults by the age of 25. Additionally, if children are overweight before they’re eight years old, then their adult obesity will be more severe. Childhood obesity [...]
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Gastric Band Surgery Blog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Keep up to date with all of the latest News on Weight Loss and Gastric Band surgery. Even more disturbing than adult obesity is the childhood obesity statistics in the United States. It is estimated that 16% of pre-school children are obese, which suggest that the rate has doubled in the last thirty years. Those numbers [...]
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Creative Class (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Paul Kennedy famously argued that imperial overstretch — that is devoting too much money and resources to military uses — plays a central role in the decline of great powers, including the United States. But it looks like America’s growing obesity epidemic is reducing the pool of capable recruits, according to this story in The [...]
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Treatment for psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, and nonpsychotic mental disorders for children and adolescents in the United States often includes second-generation antipsychotic medications. "Increasingly, the cardiometabolic effects of second-generation antipsychotic medications have raised concern. Cardiometabolic adverse effects, such as age-inappropriate weight gain, obesity, hypertension,...
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Blog of Hilarity (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
... thinking about buying a bag. Raisins - Halloween is about getting cavities and paving the road to adult obesity, not about eating dried fruit. Halloween isn’t about fruit, it’s about sugar. How many nine year olds have you seen completely losing their minds in a grocery store screaming, “Holy crap, they have raisins! I gotta get me some of these raisins! If people would just give...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
... adverse effects "are particularly problematic during development because they predict adult obesity, the metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular morbidity, and malignancy", wrote the authors.They suggested these effects have not been studied properly in children and teenagers who have not taken these drugs before.For the study the researchers looked at weight and metabolic changes in a...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
... and glucose abnormalities, are particularly problematic during development because they predict adult obesity, the metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular morbidity, and malignancy," the authors write. The cardiometabolic effects of these medications have not been sufficiently studied in children and adolescent patients who have not previously received them, according to background information...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Treatment for psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, and nonpsychotic mental disorders for children and adolescents in the United States often includes second-generation antipsychotic medications. "Increasingly, the cardiometabolic effects of second-generation antipsychotic medications have raised concern. Cardiometabolic adverse effects, such as age-inappropriate weight gain, obesity, hypertension,...
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Newswise (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Treatment for psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, and nonpsychotic mental disorders for children and adolescents in the United States often includes second-generation antipsychotic medications. “Increasingly, the cardiometabolic effects of second-generation antipsychotic medications have raised concern. Cardiometabolic adverse effects, such as age-inappropriate weight gain, obesity, hypertension,...
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Thrive (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
... posts: Health headlines: Schools are getting rid of junk food and Microsoft takes on the flu Obesity and the custody conundrum Health headlines: School lunches, no television and adaptive sports
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Treatment for psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, and nonpsychotic mental disorders for children and adolescents in the United States often includes second-generation antipsychotic medications. "Increasingly, the cardiometabolic effects of second-generation antipsychotic medications have raised concern. Cardiometabolic adverse effects, such as age-inappropriate weight gain, obesity, hypertension,...
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It's all apart of life's pageant (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
... than 1 in 5 children between the ages of 6 and 17 are overweight. There is a 79% likelihood of adult obesity if a person is overweight during adolescence. Large portions, value meals, and supersizing create serving sizes that are double and triple the recommended daily allowance. Billions of dollars are spent each year on fast-food advertising specifically targeted at children. TAKE...
