Girls who feel unpopular may gain weight
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Where a teenage girl sees herself on her school's social ladder may sway her future weight, a study of more than 4,000 girls finds. Those who believed they were unpopular gained more weight over a two-year period than girls who viewed themselves as more popular. Researchers said the study showed how a girl's view of her social status has broader health consequences.
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NEW YORK  - Excessive exercise is one of   the general warning signs of an eating disorder, but the   problem may be particularly common among anorexic women who   vomit or use laxatives to lose weight, a study shows.
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NEW YORK  - Changes to a gene involved in  the regulation of body weight may contribute to weight gain in  a very small number of obese individuals, new research reports.
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The way a girl grows during her early years may influence her risk of breast cancer, a research suggests. A Danish study of more than 117,000 women found those born chubby, but who went on to become tall and lean teenagers had the highest risk.
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NEW YORK  - Young women showed less dissatisfaction with their weight and shape after participating in an Internet-based eating disorder prevention program, researchers from Germany found.
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NEW YORK  - Although adults who lose weight may also lose some bone mass, obese adolescents seem to keep gaining bone density as they shed pounds, a study suggests.
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Maybe, say researchers at Rutgers University and elsewhere who have found people especially sensitive to bitter compounds in broccoli and other foods tend to be thinner than others.
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDayNews) --  It may not come as a surprise to anyone who's ever heard an overweight child getting teased in the schoolyard, but a new study reports that kids who are overweight or obese have a lower quality of life than their normal-weight peers.
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CINCINNATI - A woman who weighed more than 300 pounds noticed something strange happening to her body.  As she lost more than 60 pounds over several weeks without going on a diet, she said she could feel a large mass growing inside her. "It didn't feel normal," Grace Radtke said.
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NEW YORK  - Many women may fail to recognize bulimia symptoms in themselves, particularly if they don't go to the extremes of self-induced vomiting, new research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - No matter what their weight or their eating habits, young women feel worse about themselves and their appearance after viewing pro-anorexia websites, which explicitly encourage extreme thinness, a new study shows.
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A college theory about gaining weight, give or take a few examples.
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Overweight children are stigmatized by their peers as early as age 3 and even face bias from their parents and teachers, giving them a quality of life comparable to people with cancer, a new analysis concludes.
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Outgoing people tend to be overweight, while anxious types are more likely to be thin, according to Japanese researchers who examined the links between personality and body mass.
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NEW YORK  - Obese women who are considering  restricting their calorie intake to shed pounds should not be  dissuaded by those who believe dieting may increase their risk  of developing a binge-eating disorder, new study findings  suggest.
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NEW YORK  - Young adults who were born at a  very low weight may have a higher-than-average rate of some  psychological problems, a new study suggests.
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The way a girl grows during her early years may influence her risk of breast cancer, research suggests. A Danish study of more than 117,000 women found those born chubby, but who went on to become tall and lean teenagers had the highest risk.