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Why food deprivation in childhood is linked to obesity
As energy prices rise and the cost of living goes up, it is estimated that there are 4 million children from poorer households who have limited or uncertain access to healthy food.
Health officials revise tool to track severe obesity in kids
Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now extend to a body mass index of 60—up from previous charts that stopped at a BMI of 37, with additional categories to track obesity in kids ages 2 to 19.
Study examines why overweight people are more susceptible to illness
If you gain weight, the fat cells in the body get bigger. So in the extremely obese, those fat cells are greatly enlarged. Now, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) were able to show how enlarged fat cells can cause metabolic diseases.
BMI: The mismeasure of weight and the mistreatment of obesity
Source: Medical Xpress
People who seek medical treatment for obesity or an eating disorder do so with the hope their health plan will pay for part of it.
Can obesity and stress influence appetite? Study shows it's all in your head
Source: Medical Xpress
In a series of experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity across networks in the brain, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers looked at how stress might increase appetite in obese and lean adults.