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Snacks 'regular part' of child's day, so try healthy ones
Post-Bulletin, MN - 19 minutes ago
By Patricia Samour For AP Weight-conscious adults may be leery of snacking, but for active children a nibble here and a treat there can be vital parts of an ...
• Weight maintenance may be linked to decreased bone density in ... - Medicexch...
Weight maintenance may be linked to decreased bone density in ...
Medicexchange (press release), UK - 30 minutes ago
The lifestyle interventions focused on a low-fat diet and exercise. The interventions were successful in preventing weight gain and its associated increases ...
• Understanding Eating Behaviour Via Physiological And Hormonal Pathways - Medi...
Understanding Eating Behaviour Via Physiological And Hormonal Pathways
Medical News Today (press release), UK - 39 minutes ago
They postulated that leptin, one of the major hormones controlling weight, might be the key. The hormone leptin is made by fat cells and circulates in the ...
• In this Italian village, it pays to lose weight - National Post
In this Italian village, it pays to lose weight
National Post, Canada - 1 hour ago
If they can keep the weight off for 5 months, they will get another US$280, the mayor told Reuters. ?Lots of people are saying, ?I really need to lose some ...
• "Hairspray" embraces big girls; can Hollywood handle the weight? (Seattle Times)
The ladies of "Hairspray" are a rarity in fat-phobic Hollywood, whose obsession with willowy women is so strong the idea of a corpulent...
• Do scales that calculate body fat really work? (Boston Globe)
Sort of. The devices, which cost $100 and up, send a mild, unnoticeable electrical current up through one foot to the waist, then down the other leg to measure how much body fat a person has. Since fat is a poor conductor of electricity compared with water (the main component of muscles, liver, b...
• Grandparenting column: The blame game (The Citizen of Laconia)
Dear Grandparenting: Like everybody else who watches their weight, I was interested in the recent study showing that people are more likely to become fat when they have fat friends. If that's true, my grandson Paul doesn't have a chance when he returns to school in a few weeks.
Overweight children miss more school Fat children miss more school than their healthy-weight peers, a Temple University study has found. Data on weight and absenteeism were collected for 1,060 fourth to sixth graders from nine Philadelphia elementary schools. After statistical adjustments to cont...