Obesity Bad for Brain, Study Finds
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MONDAY, Nov. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- Obesity is harmful to the brain for women, but it doesn't appear to raise the risk of dying for men who have suffered heart attacks, according to two new studies.
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Oct. 6, 2004 (Atlanta) -- There&#39;s more evidence that obesity can be deadly. A new study shows obese women with early stage breast cancer are at greater risk of dying of their disease.
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Being overweight may not kill you, but it could lead to obesity, U.S. health experts cautioned on Wednesday in response to research suggesting that being a bit heavy does not raise the risk of death.
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Giving the body's natural appetite  suppressant to morbidly obese volunteers de-activated their  brain's response to tasty food -- and the new brain activity  lasted for as long as the hormone was delivered, U.S.  researchers reported on Monday.
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New research suggests that obesity can reduce the quality of men&#39;s sperm as well as lower a woman&#39;s chances of successfully conceiving a child using in vitro fertilization.
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Nov. 16, 2004 -- Skimping on sleep may make you more vulnerable to obesity, according to a new study. The finding is based on data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I (NHANES I).
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Obesity can double the risk of several  cancers, according to a study published on Friday that for the  first time also links being overweight with a number of less  common forms of the disease.
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Obesity nearly doubles the risk that an otherwise healthy middle-age man will have a stroke, a long-running Swedish study finds. The researchers followed more than 7,400 men aged 47 to 55 for 28 years and
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Very obese people are as unhealthy, and probably as likely to die, as patients with heart failure, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
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Too many calories and too little exercise are undeniably the major factors contributing to the obesity epidemic, but several recent animal studies suggest that environmental exposure to widely used chemicals may also help make people fat.
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Obese people who suffer critical injuries are much more likely to die than thinner victims because their overall health tends to be worse and surgery is riskier, a study said on Monday.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDayNews) -- A lack of safe and affordable recreation and too much time spent watching television increase the risk of obesity for young black girls in the United States, says a study in the latest issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Obesity surgery could lead to a vitamin deficiency condition which can result in memory loss, researchers say.
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NEW YORK  - A high body mass index (BMI) in  middle-aged men is associated with an increased likelihood of  having a stroke over the next two or three decades -- even  after taking into account other risk factors such as high blood  pressure and diabetes --Swedish investigators have found.
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Frequent fast food eaters are more vulnerable to obesity and type 2 diabetes, a 15-year study shows. This study, which appeared in the Jan. 1 issue of the The Lancet, is the
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A long-term study of people who had surgery for obesity found they lost more weight and experienced fewer obesity-related complications, including diabetes, than people who didn&#39;t have the operation.
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Life & style: A government study says modern life has Britain sleepwalking towards an obesity crisis.