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Weight Watchee News


• Obesity Linked to Ovarian Cancer (HealthDay) 6 Jan 2009 | 4:47am GMT
  
  HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Obese postmenopausal women who have never used hormone replacement therapy may face an increased risk of ovarian cancer, compared to normal-weight women, a new study suggests.
• Gastric Bypass Halts Diabetes in Obese Teens (HealthDay) 6 Jan 2009 | 4:47am GMT
  
  HealthDay - MONDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Obese teenagers who have gastric bypass surgery not only lose weight but see their type 2 diabetes disappear, a new study finds.
• Indian airline sacks overweight stewardesses: report (AFP) 5 Jan 2009 | 5:46pm GMT
  
  

  AFP - India's state-run carrier Air India has dismissed 10 women flight attendants who were grounded last year for being overweight, a report said Monday.

  
  
• Wallace and Gromit help to fight obesity (AFP) 2 Jan 2009 | 5:08pm GMT
  
  

  AFP - The government launched a campaign to fight the nation's expanding waistlines on Friday with a cartoon by the Oscar-winning animators of Wallace and Gromit to hammer home the message.

  
  
• Weight loss surgery improves sexual function in men (Reuters) 1 Jan 2009 | 4:19pm GMT
  
  Reuters - Sexual dysfunction that commonly occurs in morbidly obese men improves after weight loss surgery, according to a new study.
• Pa. police find woman's body, 60 birds in trailer (AP) 1 Jan 2009 | 2:20am GMT
  
  AP - Police investigating the death of a morbidly obese woman found her disabled mother living in their squalid mobile home with more than 60 caged birds, a few of them dead.
• Overweight women have lower risk of premature birth (Reuters) 31 Dec 2008 | 7:22pm GMT
  
  Reuters - Among pregnant women at higher-than- average risk of premature delivery, those who are overweight or obese seem to be afforded some protection, a new study suggests.
• Obese men have worse sperm quality than leaner men (Reuters) 30 Dec 2008 | 6:23pm GMT
  
  

  Reuters - Obese men are more than three times as likely to have low sperm counts compared with their normal-weight peers, a study out this month in the journal Fertility and Sterility shows.

  
  
• Obese kids who snore more sleepy in the daytime (Reuters) 29 Dec 2008 | 7:22pm GMT
  
  Reuters - Obese children who have difficulty breathing while they sleep have excessive daytime sleepiness compared with slimmer children who are also chronic snorers, new research in the journal Pediatrics shows.
• Study: Obesity surgery reverses diabetes in teens (AP) 29 Dec 2008 | 5:07am GMT
  
  AP - Obesity surgery can reverse diabetes in teens, just as it does in adults, according to a small study.
• Low death rate after obesity surgery in Sweden (Reuters) 25 Dec 2008 | 9:40pm GMT
  
  Reuters - Death rates soon after anti-obesity or "bariatric" surgery in Sweden are low, statistics show.
• Fast food + nearby schools = fat kids (Reuters) 24 Dec 2008 | 1:31am GMT
  
  

  Reuters - Youth who study just a short walk from a fast-food outlet eat fewer fruit and vegetables, drink more soda and are more likely to be obese than students at other schools, according to research published Tuesday.

  
  
• Even a Little Overweight, Inactivity Hurts the Heart (HealthDay) 23 Dec 2008 | 4:47am GMT
  
  HealthDay - MONDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Even a few extra pounds and just a little inactivity increased the risk of heart failure in a major study of American doctors.
• Even a tiny bit of flab raises heart failure risk (Reuters) 23 Dec 2008 | 12:18am GMT
  
  

  Reuters - Even a little bit of extra weight can raise the risk of heart failure, according to a U.S. study published on Monday that calculated the heart hazards of being pudgy but not obese.

  
  
• Obesity raises risk of cancer-related lymphedema (Reuters) 22 Dec 2008 | 8:23pm GMT
  
  Reuters - Painful swelling of the arm or shoulder area following treatment for breast cancer -- a condition called lymphedema - is more common in women who are overweight or obese than in women of normal weight, researchers have found.
• For the Obese, Holiday Tables Serve Platefuls of Doubt (HealthDay) 21 Dec 2008 | 4:47am GMT
  
  HealthDay - SATURDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- The holiday season can be especially difficult for overweight or obese people as they struggle to control their eating habits and cope with widely held misconceptions, according to a Duke University expert.
• Childhood Obesity May Cause Thyroid Problems (HealthDay) 19 Dec 2008 | 4:47am GMT
  
  HealthDay - THURSDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Childhood obesity may alter the structure and function of the thyroid gland, an organ in the neck that releases hormones crucial to metabolism.
• Study Finds Molecular Link Between Obesity, Hypertension (HealthDay) 18 Dec 2008 | 4:47am GMT
  
  HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Most people know that obese individuals tend to have high blood pressure, but now British researchers have identified the molecular pathway that could explain that link.
• Obese patients wait longer for liver transplant (Reuters) 17 Dec 2008 | 10:41pm GMT
  
  Reuters - People hoping for a liver transplant and who are obese face prolonged waiting times, reflecting a possible "reluctance to transplant obese patients," according to a new report.
• Obesity risk might turn teens off smoking (Reuters) 17 Dec 2008 | 5:29pm GMT
  
  Reuters - Telling teenage would-be smokers that lighting up may make them fat down the road may be a more effective deterrent than harping on the risks of heart disease and cancer from smoking, hints research published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Public Health.