• ?Pix: Sun News Publishing - Daily Sun

?Pix: Sun News Publishing
Daily Sun, Nigeria - 38 minutes ago
Researchers think the mineral probably prevents weight gain by increasing the breakdown of body fat and hampering its formation. Low-fat yogurt, cheeses, ...

• GB call-up for bobsleigh rookie Kenny - Shetland Times

GB call-up for bobsleigh rookie Kenny
Shetland Times, UK - 1 hour ago
The average weight for a man in the bobsleigh is around 100kg, but that has to be a "fit" weight with no fat at all. On further trips to Bath Kenny learned ...

• Parent says school's 'weight notice' causes emotional distress - USA Today

Parent says school's 'weight notice' causes emotional distress
USA Today - 1 hour ago
We want you to weigh in (so to speak): Is a student's weight the business of a school district, and should this information have been sent home with the ...

• Fast-track flock improvements - Farmers Guardian

Fast-track flock improvements
Farmers Guardian, UK - 1 hour ago
They actively record eye muscle depth and back fat, as well as faecal egg counts to generate estimated breeding values. ?One year into the programme, ...

• Link Discovered Between Enzyme, Fat Formation And Appetite (Medical News Today)
The enzyme TPPII may contribute to obesity by stimulating the formation of fat cells, suggests a study in EMBO reports this week. The enzyme, TPPII, has previously been linked to making people feel hungry, but Jonathan Graff and colleagues now show that it may be even more deeply involved in caus...

• FTC targets spammers hawking weight-loss products (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)
An international enterprise must stop sending unsolicited e-mail advertising human growth hormone (HGH) and weight-loss products using the hoodia gordonii plant under a court order obtained by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

• Garcia: Fat golfers and skinny golfers (Sun Star)
A RECENT study had some interesting conclusions on the weight of golfers in a particular golf league. This study indicated that the single golfers who play in these leagues are 'skinnier' than the married ones. The study's explanation for this result was interesting.

• More Fiber, Less Fat Help Prevent Ovarian Cancer (MedicineNet.com)
Title: More Fiber, Less Fat Help Prevent Ovarian Cancer Category: Health News Created: 10/10/2007 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 10/10/2007

• Obesity a growing problem in HIV population - San Mateo Daily Journal

Obesity a growing problem in HIV population
San Mateo Daily Journal, CA - 19 minutes ago
AP LOS ANGELES ? Early in the AIDS epidemic, people infected with the virus often lost a dangerous amount of weight, at times looking gaunt and ghostly. ...

• A problem people with HIV never thought they?d face - San Mateo Daily Journal

A problem people with HIV never thought they?d face
San Mateo Daily Journal, CA - 19 minutes ago
From the start of the pandemic loss of weight was one of the biggest fears a PWA faced. Before the advent of highly-effective anti-retroviral drug therapy ...

• The obesity battle - Newindpress

The obesity battle
Newindpress, India - 42 minutes ago
They rest for almost three to six months and put weight. Fat starts accumulating in the abdomen, hip, hands and thighs, which is very difficult to reduce in ...

• Cholesterol beneficial to the body - Daily Sun

Cholesterol beneficial to the body
Daily Sun, Nigeria - 44 minutes ago
Usually, this problem starts from excessive body weight, which is also obesity. Essentially, like most other illnesses, which we classify as chronic ...

• Fat 'getting fatter', but not thin (Channel 4)
Fat people have generally got fatter in the last decade but thin people have stayed the same, experts have found. Cancer Research UK experts studied the weight and waist measurements of almost 12,000 men and women in 1993/94.

• Military Body Fat Standards (About.com)
Contrary to popular belief, there is no maximum "weight" to join or stay in the military. "Weight" is not the standard. Body-Fat percentage is. However, it takes more time to...

• Belly fat, weight cycling ups kidney cancer risk (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Postmenopausal women who are overweight or obese appear to have a greater risk of developing, renal cell carcinoma, a common form of kidney cancer, and study findings suggest that a larger waist girth and a history of weight loss and regain further increase this risk.

• Body fat meter is thinly priced (EETimes)
There always seems to be some medical widget at my local Walgreen's that gets the wheels of curiosity turning. This time it was Omron's $50 (or less) HBF-306 personal body fat meter.