General Health articles

Articles listed below are specifically related to the general health aspects of weight loss and weight management.

Association between reduced sleep and weight gain in women - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier WeightAm J Epidemiol.2006 Aug 16; [Epub ahead of print] Patel SR, Malhotra A, White DP et al. Physiologic studies suggest that sleep restriction has metabolic effects that predispose...
Attacking the Obesity Epidemic: The Potential Health Benefits of Providing Nutrition Information in Restaurants - General HealthAm J Public Health. 2006 Jul 27; [Epub ahead of print] Burton S, Creyer EH, Kees J, Huggins K If more people knew what they were eating in restaurants, would obesity reduce?...
Barriers to obesity treatment in primary care - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier WeightBMC Fam Pract. June 2006;7:35 [Epub ahead of print] Forman-Hoffman VL, Little AE, Wahls TL Physicians in primary care are often seen as the first contact point in...
Changes in muscle mass during weight loss - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier Weight International Journal of Obesity advance online publication 31 October 2006 T B Chaston, J B Dixon and P E O'Brien Objective: To identify the...
Could weight loss improve asthma? - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier WeightInternational Journal of Obesity 2006: 30; 111–1118 G Hasler, P J Gergen, V Ajdacic, A Gamma, D Eich, W Rössler, and J Angst There is...
Does having PCOS mean patients will also have diabetes? - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier WeightEur J Endocrinol 2004;150:525-32 Mohlig M, Spranger J, Osterhoff M et al. The syndrome of polycystic ovaries (PCOS) is a known risk factor for type 2 diabetes. It is not known,...
Fertility in obesity - does it only affect women? - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier WeightMed J Aust. 2006 Oct 16;185(8):424-7 Allan CA, Strauss BJ et al. Much is published on the subject of female fertility and obesity, however, does obesity have an effect on male...
Fit for obesity surgery? - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier Weight Fitness is important for patients undergoing obesity surgery according to a recent study by McCullough et al. In a prospective study, Dr. McCullough and colleagues divided 108...
GPs' views on treating obesity - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier WeightBr J Gen Pract. 2005; 55:750-4 Epstein L , Ogden J BackgroundDue to the increased prevalence of obesity GPs now have a key role in managing obese patients. AimTo explore GPs'...
Marked improvement in asthma after lap-band morbid obesity surgery - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier WeightObesity Surgery 1999; 9: 385-389 Dixon JB, Chapman L, O'Brian P. Asthma and obesity are common chronic conditions that may be related. Laparoscopic banding provides effective...
Metabolic obesity - the hidden epidemic? - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier WeightInt J Obes (Lond). 2006 Jul 25; [Epub ahead of print] Yoon YS, Lee ES, Park C et al. 'The new definition of metabolic syndrome by the international diabetes federation (IDF) is less...
Metabolic syndrome - what is it? - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier WeightJ Cardiovasc Nurs. 2006;21:298-305. Bhatheja R, Bhatt DL Metabolic syndrome is a clustering of cardiovascular risk factors. Its definition is the presence of any three of the...
Obesity and breast cancer - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier WeightBJOG 2006 Aug 31; [Epub ahead of print] Carmichael A The evidence that obesity adversely affects women's health is overwhelming and indisputable. The risk of postmenopausal breast...
Obesity and progression of renal failure - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier WeightCurr Opin Nephrol Hypertens. 2006 Sep;15:481-6 Praga M, Morales E PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Recent studies have reported an alarming increase in the incidence of obesity-related kidney...
Obesity, Sleep Apnoea Syndrome and Risk of abnormal heart rhythm - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier Weight Herz.2006 May;31(3):213-218 Grimm W, Becker HF Obstructive sleep apnoea is a common disorder and affects approximately 4% of middle-aged men and 2% of middle-aged women....
Obituary for obesity surgery pioneer Lubomyr Kuzmak - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier Weight This obituary of one of the visionary pioneers of obesity surgery appeared in Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, the official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery,...
Primary care support for tackling obesity - where can patients look for help? - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier WBr J Gen Pract 2006; 56: 666-72 Brown I, Thompson J, Tod A et al. BACKGROUND: Obesity has become a major public health issue and there is concern about the response of health services to...
Sleep apnoea patients at high risk of depression - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier WeightArch Intern Med. 2006 ;166:1709-15. Peppard PE, Szklo-Coxe M et al. BACKGROUND: Sleep-related breathing disorder (SRBD, also known as sleep apnoea) and depression have...
The overweight now outnumber the hungry - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier Weight August 15th For the first time, the number of overweight people in the world has overtaken the number of...
Weight loss reduces risk of major cancers - General Health Articles - Research - Healthier WeightInt J Cancer 2001;91:421-30 Bergstrom A, Pisani P, Tenet V et al. There is growing evidence that excess body weight increases the risk of cancer at several sites, including the...