By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) — The number of Americans suffering from kidney stones has almost doubled since 1994, researchers report, and the obesity epidemic is the most likely reason why.
About one in 11 Americans now develops kidney stones, according to scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles and RAND Corp. In contrast, only one in 20 Americans developed kidney stones back in 1994, they noted.
THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) — Some overweight or obese children are at increased risk for a brain condition that can lead to blindness, a new study shows.
The risk of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) — also called pseudotumor cerebri — is especially high in older white girls, according to the Kaiser Permanente researchers.
MONDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) — Heart damage can be present in obese teens who don’t have any symptoms of heart disease, a small, preliminary study found.
Obesity is a risk factor for heart disease, and previous research has shown that obese adults have damage to their hearts.
THURSDAY, May 10 (HealthDay News) — Levels of certain gut bacteria and low protein intake may raise children’s risk of being obese, new research suggests.
The study included 26 obese and 27 non-obese children aged 6 to 16 who completed a dietary and physical activity survey. Stool samples from the children were analyzed to assess the presence of different types of gut bacteria.
WEDNESDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) — Children who wake up at night and are allowed to fall back asleep in their parents’ bed are less likely to be overweight than kids put back into their own bed, a new study says.
The study included nearly 500 Danish children aged 2 to 6 who had an increased risk of being overweight because they had a high birth weight, their mothers were overweight before becoming pregnant or their mothers were poor.
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) — Older obese men with low levels of testosterone can lose weight when levels of the male hormone are restored to normal, a new study suggests.
But it might not be the testosterone itself. Rather, it could be that men undergoing the hormone therapy feel better and stronger so they exercise more and watch their diet, speculated experts not involved with the study.
By Kathleen Doheny
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) — A “spare tire” around the midsection raises the odds of sudden cardiac death in obese people, a new study finds.
A larger waist-to-hip ratio matters even more than body-mass index when it comes to sudden cardiac death risk, said study researcher Dr. Selcuk Adabag, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Body-mass index is a measure of weight relative to height used to determine normal weight and obesity.
TUESDAY, May 8 (HealthDay News) — The United States’ progress against the battle of the bulge has been slow, but certain strategies could speed obesity prevention efforts, a new report concludes.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) on Tuesday outlined five recommendations with the greatest potential to prevent obesity.
MONDAY, May 7, 2012 (Health.com) — A mother’s love usually makes for healthy and happy children, but in some cases it may be contributing to childhood obesity, a new study suggests.
In the study, researchers presented 281 mothers with cartoon drawings of toddlers ranging in size from scrawny to plump, and asked them to select the drawing that most closely resembled their child.
Nearly 70% of the women misjudged their toddler’s body size, but the rate was much higher among the mothers of overweight children. Fully 94% of those mothers identified their child’s size as being in the normal range, the study found. Read More
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) — Even if the skyrocketing rates of obesity level off, 42 percent of Americans will be obese and 11 percent will be severely obese by the year 2030, a new report predicts.
That means 32 million people will be tipping the scales in the wrong direction, costing the country billions, according to the study, appearing online May 7 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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