Category: Diets & Weight Loss

AP – An Ohio third-grader who weighs more than 200 pounds has been taken from his family and placed into foster care after county social workers said his mother wasn’t doing enough to control his weight.

Reuters – Following more than 80,000 women over 26 years, researchers found that those who ate a diet high in refined carbohydrates, such as white bread, potatoes and sugary drinks, had a 30 percent lower risk of developing diabetes than women with similar eating habits who didn’t drink alcohol.

Reuters – Minimally-invasive weight-loss procedures seem to be safer than open bariatric surgery, according to researchers who analyzed past studies comparing the two methods.

HealthDay – MONDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) — People with early evidence of
Alzheimer’s disease are more likely to be underweight than people who
don’t have this type of dementia, a new study suggests.

Reuters – Overweight adults eat less often than people in the normal body weight range, but still take in more calories and are less active over the course of the day, according to a U.S. study.

Reuters – Normal weight adults, including those who had lost a lot of weight and kept it off, ate more often than overweight people in a new study looking at factors that may help in preventing weight gain.

LiveScience.com – Early signs of childhood obesity could be detected in the weight gains of infants as young as 6 months old, suggests a new study.