'Obesity' presentation slideshows

Report of Findings April 1, 2005 Project #DHR001

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Obesity in 2009

Predictions on what may happen with regard to obesity in 2009.

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LABG as Day Surgery is Quick and Safe

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Obesity in Kids ??? Healthy Living by Fitwits and Elvis Pretzl

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Are Working Moms Driving Childhood Obesity?

Maternal employment was found to have increased by more than 30% across generations, as a result of which, the population attributable risk maternal employment increased from 3.1% to 7.8% across generations.

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How Effective is Obesity Treatment in Children?

Obesity management in kids is no different than treatment in adults in that it requires multidisciplinary intervention and ongoing monitoring to assure that lost weight is not regained.

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Maternal Excess Weight Stresses Oozytes

A study by Natalia Igosheva and colleagues from King's College London, London, UK, just published in PLoS.

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6 Food Mistakes Parents Make???

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Risks of Medical Tourism for Bariatric Surgery

The bottom line is that while medical tourism may work great for some health problems, bariatric surgery is probably not one of them.

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Will Restricting Food Promote Obesity?

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Obesity Rampant in the Emirates

The prime driver of the diabetes epidemic in that region of the world (as elsewhere) is the obesity crisis.

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Is Obesity an Addiction?

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ICD-9 278

Just to confuse things, the numbers for obesity in ICD 10 are E65-E68

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Obesity Compounds Pain in Fibromyalgia

Clinicians should be aware of the relationship between excess weight and fibromyalgia, which can often pose an important contributor to weight gain and a major barrier to weight management.

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Do Brains of Obese Individuals Respond Differently to Food?

Findings suggest that brain function associated with food motivation differs in obese and non-obese adults and may well explain the different susceptibilities to weight gain and variability in response to diet interventions.

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Looking AHEAD to Reduce Knee Pain

The authors conclude that the intensive lifestyle intervention focusing on weight loss in adults with type 2 diabetes and knee pain, results in significant improvement in physical function.

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Cortisol Receptor Gene Linked to Binge Eating Disorder

Fortunately, binge-eating disorder is highly responsive to treatment, and professional psychological counseling can lead to the resolution of binge-eating behaviours in the vast majority of patients.

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Obesity and Suicidality in Youth

Examining the relationship between weight status, psychological health, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts in Dutch adolescents.

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Obesity Increases Risk for Pancreatic Cancer?

Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that obesity may also be an important risk factor for pancreatic cancer.

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Slow Eating Protects From Childhood Obesity?Slow Eating Prot

The speed of eating may in fact be one of the earliest predictors of obesity, even in 4-year old kids.

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