Obesity in girls tied to higher MS risk: study

(Reuters) – Obese children, adolescent girls in particular, are more likely to be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) than normal-weight youth – with extreme obesity tied to a three- to four-fold higher risk of MS. The study didn’t prove that carrying around some extra eight in childhood causes MS, a neurological disease in which the protective coating around nerve fibers breaks down, slowing signals traveling between the brain and the body, said researchers whose work appeared in the journal Neurology. …