Severely obese adolescents not more depressed than thinner peers (HealthDay)

(Tuesday, April 26, HealthDay News) - severely obese adolescents are more likely to be depressed that their normal weight peers, suggests new research.

"People assume that all obese adolescents are unhappy and depressed;" that the more obese a teen may be, like the impact on his mental health, "study author Dr. Elizabeth Goodman, Director of the Centre for the child and the Adolescent Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, said in a press release from the hospital." "Our results suggest that this hypothesis is false."

White teens, however, can with a little higher risk, according to the study of.

The researchers followed by obese adolescents severely 51 grades 7 - 12 and a similar group of non-obese adolescents compared. Obese adolescents had an index of BMI of 40 or greater, which is considered as severely obese and in the top 1 per cent of their age group.

Adolescents were evaluated for depression at the beginning of the study and again two and three years later.

Researchers have not found any link between obesity and depression, although there were signs of a connection to the white teenager in the third year.

"As clinicians, we treat the whole person, body and spirit, and we cannot assume that weight loss will improve the mental health of our patients or that negative feelings run hand in hand with obesity", "says Goodman." "" The size of the body seems to have a greater impact on the feelings of non-Hispanic white adolescents than non-Hispanic black teenagers. We should be particularly vigilant on the assessment of depression during regular visits among this group. ?

The study was recently published online in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

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Study probes how surgery makes diabetes disappear (Reuters)

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bariatric Surgery appears to alter the metabolism of the body of a regime so weight loss alone may help explain why diabetes often disappears after surgery before even that much weight is lost, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

Understand how gastric bypass affects metabolism could shed light on the treatment of type 2 diabetes, exercise a global epidemic strongly linked to obesity and too little.

Bariatric Surgery becomes more and more popular as obese people struggle to lose weight and avoid health complications that accompany the additional books - including diabetes, heart disease, joint pain, and certain cancers.

In research conducted at Columbia University in New York and the Duke University in North Carolina, researchers studied two small groups of severely obese patients with diabetes who had gastric bypass surgery or went on a strict diet.

Both groups have lost about 20 pounds.

The study, the chemical metabolites - sous-products measured teams of foods in the body.

They found that unlike plans changes bypass gastric metabolism of a person by significantly from reduction of amino acids levels - compounds in circulation linked with resistance to insulin, diabetes and obesity.

"What we were trying to do, it is cast a wide net," said Christopher Newgard of the Duke, who worked on the study published in Science Translational Medicine."

"What we have is a very clear difference between surgery Bariatric and dietary intervention."

He said patients in the Group of surgery of the lower levels of acid molecules called amino branch of the chain.

"These dropped much more rapidly in people with Bariatric Surgery than people with dietary intervention", he said.

People in the gastric bypass in the study arm underwent surgery called Roux-en-Y, where doctors surgically reduces the size of the stomach to stop people from eating too much.

Newgard said that it was not clear why reduce the size of the stomach could have this effect, but it is clear that bariatric surgery causes significant metabolic changes.

The team is now research to discover ways to develop drugs could reproduce this effect.

Newgard said that the results could apply not device weight loss of Lap-Band of Allergan, in which doctors insert a strip of adjustable silicone around the upper part of the stomach, but do not reduce the size of the stomach surgically.

Up to one third of the adult U.S. could suffer from diabetes in 2050, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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New clues how Gastric Bypass Surgery fighting diabetes (HealthDay)

(Wednesday, April 27, HealthDay News) - gastric bypass surgery has been known to improve glycemic control, often send people with diabetes type 2 in remission, but experts have long wondered exactly how this occurs.

Now, a new study provides some clues.

Movement of amino acids associated with insulin resistance significantly decrease of those who have the bypass, the researchers found. They compared the 10 obese diabetic who had surgery with 11 who lost weight through dieting.

"Something happens after gastric bypass happens not long after weight loss induced by the diet,", said Dr. Blandine Laferrere, Associate Professor of medicine at St. Luke-Roosevelt Hospital Center and Columbia University, New York.

The study is published in the issue April 27 translational Medical Science.

The surgery, which reduces the stomach of the size of a small pocket, also modifies the junction between the stomach and small intestine. It leads to a dramatic reduction in the level of amino acids that have been associated with diabetes in circulation.

"The fact that gastric bypass causes the remission of diabetes in the majority of the patients is not new," said Laferrere. According to information from bottom in the study, 50-80% of cases of diabetes pass in remission after surgery.

What doctors have tried to understand, she said, is why the bypass is so good to make diabetes to disappear. "Diabetes improves almost immediately, before that occurs a significant amount of weight loss," she said. "Which highlights that it is something other than weight loss."

In the new study, researchers assessed biochemical compounds involved in metabolic reactions among participants. Each group had lost about 20 pounds.

The researchers found that patients of bypass had much lower amino acid known as branched amino acid and acid amino phenylalanine and tyrosine.

"These changes in amino acids could be involved in the mechanism of diabetes after gastric bypass," said Laferrere.

Experts know that amino acids are related to resistance to insulin in part by studies on animals, she said. "If complete you the feeding of rats with amino acids branched, you can induce insulin resistance," she explained.

However, Laferrere said, the finding does not mean all obese diabetics should choose surgery on a diet. Surgery is very intrusive, she noted, and not everyone is a candidate.

The results are interesting, she says, but it is too early for applying in the treatment of diabetes. Finally, she added, when experts understand more about how the surgery affects the amino acids, it may be possible to apply the findings to develop better treatments for diabetes or less invasive surgery.

The new study adds weight to other research finding a link between the decline in the branched amino acids and the decline in the resistance, insulin, said Dr. Thomas j. Wang, Professor Associate Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a co-author of the perspective that accompany the study.

"It is known that gastric bypass quickly reverses resistance to insulin, which is one of the main biochemical abnormalities that precedes diabetes," said Wang.

"This study really helps to confirm this hypothesis that branched amino acid down more in people who have Bariatric Surgery," he said. While he supports the idea that there is a link between the reduction in amino acids and decrease insulin resistance, it does not prove cause and effect, Wang added.

"It shows people who attain Bariatric Surgery have a greater fall in their branched chain amino acids." Which has not yet been proven is whether if this reduction in the branched amino acids is the reason for which their insulin resistance decreased, "he noted."

Wang and his co-author, Dr. Robert Gerszten, are co-inventors on patent applications related to predictors of metabolite of diabetes.

Wang and Gerszten also noted that the number of obese diabetic type 2 was $ 171 million in the world in 2000. By 2030, this number will double. Therefore, they have written, if a detailed understanding of the role of amino acids in diabetes it would be useful.

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Vitamin E, diabetes drug may not facilitate disorder of liver related to obese Kids (HealthDay)

(Tuesday, April 26, HealthDay News) - either vitamin e or diabetes drugs metformin worked better than a placebo in the treatment of fatty liver in children diseases, according to new research.

Liver disease fat is more common, but not well known, which can lead to very serious complications, such as cirrhosis of the liver. United States, 20 per cent of adults and 5 per cent of children have the disorder, which is strongly linked to obesity, according to the American College of Gastroenterology.

He had hoped that the vitamin e or metformin may help kids battle fatty liver disease. But when the researchers compared two treatments versus placebo on their ability to improve the results of a blood test that measures the health of the liver, they have not found any statistically significant difference.

However, when the researchers compared the results of a biopsy of the liver is at baseline and at the end of the study, vitamin e has made are promising in the improvement of a more evolutionary form of the disease, called non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

"The fatty liver disease is a common disease in children that may have significant consequences for health." There are currently developed therapies tested in various ways, and I have reason to believe that vitamin e promising to help resolve [NASH] in children who, says author of the study, Dr. Joel LavineHead of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and nutrition at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.

In disease of the liver fatty, fat collects in the liver. The disease is associated with overweight and obesity, but not all those who have a fatty liver disease is overweight, according to Lavine. It usually causes no symptoms, and for most of the people who, it causes serious health problems.

However, some people who have the disease evolve NASH, which implies an inflammation and scarring in the liver that may affect the function of this vital organ. But, at the present time, there is no easy way to tell which could evolve into a more serious disease. The only way to confirm NASH is through a biopsy of the liver, which is an invasive procedure. Liver function test known by the initials ALT can provide clues on the health of the liver, but cannot confirm NASH permanently.

Lifestyle changes, including weight loss, are the current recommended treatment for fatty liver disease.

This study compares two potential treatments for a disease of the fatty liver in children: vitamin e and type 2 diabetes drug metformin. Lavine and colleagues randomly placed 173 children in one of three treatment groups, including a placebo group. Children of the Group of vitamin e took 800 international units per day, and those in the metformin Group took 1000 milligrams per day for almost two years.

All children involved in the study were aged 8 to 17, and were all confirmed biopsy fatty liver disease. They were also elevated ALT levels, suggesting that certain hepatic lesions may already occurred. Forty - two percent of children had already been diagnosed with Nash.

Because it is non-invasive and test most commonly used to measure the progress of the fatty liver disease, has chosen the researchers to measure ALT levels as their primary evaluation.

They have not found any statistically significant difference between the children taking vitamin E, metformin or placebo, based on the ALT levels.

However, when the researchers looked at biopsies taken at baseline and at the end of the study in children with NASH, 58% of the vitamin e group is no longer had NASH compared to 28% in the placebo group. Forty-one per cent in the metformin Group had no NASH, according to the study.

Results were published in the issue April 27 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

"The fatty liver disease is a potentially problem in children and adolescents." "But we do not have a drug at the present time that we can say changes the prognosis," says Dr. Benjamin Shneider, Hepatology at the Pittsburgh children's Hospital Medical Director. "Vitamin e is probably safe, but it is difficult with the data at hand to recommend." The primary end point of the study has not been met, and although they saw some fascinating changes with vitamin E, it is difficult to know if these changes lead to an improvement in the long term.

At the present time, a healthy way of life remains the best defence against fatty liver disease, said Shneider.

"There is no miracle", he added. "Lifestyle changes are treatment." The good news for children is that they have the opportunity to catch up with their obesity. If they reduce their food so that they take the weight and do more exercise, as they grow, they catch you their obesity. "It is easier when you are an adult."

Lavine agreed that lifestyle changes can help. "If children eat properly and play vigorously, the way they did a few years earlier, this problem would much less common and worrisome, he said."

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80 000 on the benefits to the United Kingdom because of drug addiction, obesity (Reuters)

London (Reuters) - more than 80,000 British claim payments for leave long-term obesity or alcoholism or addiction, contributing to an annual bill of 7 billion pounds for disability benefits, the Government said Thursday.

Of this number, more than diagnose alcoholics and addicts have received payments for more than 10 years, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.

"Be the safety net that it should be, the system benefits took the trap of thousands of people, in a cycle of addiction and the dependence on social assistance, with no hope of return to work" Employment Minister Chris Grayling said in a statement.

Reform of social protection, the Government began to reassess the circumstances of 1.9 million people off the coast of work on the benefits of the inability to see if they are fit enough to return to employment.

Ministers promised more help to people in their work but threaten sanctions against those who avoid getting a job.

The changes are politically risky and could cause a public reaction from both the rise of unemployment, State spending cuts and an economy weakened after a deep recession.

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Rich in fat, diet low carbohydrate content may be reverse renal failure: study (AFP)

WASHINGTON (AFP) - renal failure is a major complication of diabetes, but a laboratory mouse study showed that a diet rich in fat and low in carbohydrates which can reverse in eight weeks, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

The extreme diet is known as a ketogenic and is often used to treat children with the drug-resistant epilepsy. It robs the body of carbohydrates and sugars, thus inducing the body in burning fat for fuel instead of glucose.

The diet is so restrictive that it must be developed with the assistance of an expert. Meal options may include scrambled eggs with cream, bacon and butter omelette or lettuce sprayed mayonnaise.

Doctors theorized the diet might work for people with diabetes by blocking the toxic effects of glucose, a simple sugar made the body metabolizes food but that can become harmful in patients with diabetes who do not have enough insulin to regulate.

So, the team at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York took two groups of mice with a genetic predisposition to Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Half were fed standard, high-carb while the other half received a ketogenic diet.

After eight weeks, renal failure was reversed in ketogenic mice fed, said the study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE.

"Our study is the first to show that a dietary intervention alone is sufficient to reverse this serious complication of diabetes," said lead author Charles Mobbs at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

"This result has important implications for tens of thousands of Americans suffering from diabetic renal failure and other complications possibly, every year."

According to the National Institutes of Health, 24 million people in the United States have diabetes, and approximately 180 000 people living with kidney failure related to their diabetes.

Mobbs, has stated that the diet is not likely to be adapted as a solution in the long term in humans, but said that the results indicate same little as a month on the regime might be enough to "reset" the body and prevent kidney failure.

Mobbs said the findings should "we help identify target of drug and subsequent pharmacologic interventions that mimic the effect of the diet."

His team is planning studies to explore the impact of the ketogenic on other neurological diseases such as retinopathy, resulting in a loss of sight.

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This is when a salad not a salad? Why indicated is easily confused by labels (Time.com)

Shown is a targeted heap: calculate calories, sugar and fat content and conscientiously ask vinaigrette on the side. Right? Step exactly. According to a new study indicated tend indeed to make snap judgments on the safety of the food based only on his label, instead of its ingredients.

"The wire of time, indicated learn to focus on simply avoiding foods that they recognize as a prohibited based on the name of the product," said the authors, Caglar Irmak, Professor of marketing at the University of South Carolina; Beth Vallen, Professor of marketing at Loyola University Maryland; and Stefanie Rosen Robinson, a graduate student at the University of South Carolina, in a statement (PDF). "Thus indicated is likely to assume that an element given a substandard name (for example, pulp) is less good health an element given it a name in good health (for example, salad), and they spend time, taking into account information on the product which may affect their assessments of products".

Given the ubiquity of washed health products currently on the shelves of stores - potato chips marketed as "veggie chips," milk sold as "smoothies," sweet drinks repositioned as "flavoured water" - which can lead to much confusion, the authors say.

(More on TIME.com: "why we looking at obese makes it want to eat more, not less")

In a series of experiments, the researchers asked participants - some who have a diet, those who were not - to assess the relative safety and the taste of food and measure these ratings against the amount of people. In one experiment, people were invited to imagine the command in a menu lunch and evaluate how healthy the "daily special salad" or "daily special pasta" was. They received lists of ingredients and photos of inputs, which were in fact exactly the same - all tasty two containing romaine lettuce, diced tomatoes, onions, red peppers, shells of pasta, salami, mozzarella cheese and a herb vinaigrette. Both totalled 900 calories, with 60 grams of fat. The only difference is that one has been called the other, pasta and a salad.

The only label was enough to influence the shown - but not the nondieters'-ratings. When the product was called the pasta, the indicated classified it significantly less healthy than the nondieters. Interestingly, however, when it was given the name of "healthy", salad, it leads to no difference in ratings between the two groups. (But, overall, indicated believes that the same dish, then called salad, was in better health.)

It is indicated because tend to be more sensitive to certain names of food taboo - like pasta, ice cream, of potato chips and candy - that people who are not constantly watch their weight and is more motivated to avoid. On the reverse, however, their judgment of healthy foods that sound is not different from nondieters'. So strategy of dieter typical not necessarily to eat more of good food, but rather to avoid the bad.

(More on TIME.com: "health-washing: is"Healthy"fast food for real?")

Why nondieters are not as easily fooled by the labels of the products? The authors write:

it is important to note here that we do not believe that the reason why the nondieters ratings are from the impact of the name of food is that these people tend to evaluate food more systematically indicated. In fact, we believe that the reason for which the name of the product has no bearing on assessments of the nondieters is that they have no motivation to spontaneously assess the safety of food, or the implicit associations between certain categories of food and food safety that doc indicated

in other wordswho are not concerned with simply indifferent to this tip weight loss.

In another experiment, and nondieters were invited to assess the safety and the taste of sour Jelly Belly jelly beans - presented as "fruit chews" or "candy Lamb's lettuce." Not only were shown more likely to rate that candy chews less healthy and less tasty nondieters made, but also, paradoxically, they ate more snack when it was known as fruit chews.

(More on TIME.com: "Regime of pregnancy of the mother can influence future weight child?")

Seems to be indicated is so busy to avoid a long list of "forbidden" foods that they are failing to take note of what really matters: the ingredients of the product, not marketing hype.

The study was published in the Journal of Consumer Research.

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More than 80,000 at the United Kingdom on the benefits due to drug addiction and obesity (Reuters)

London (Reuters) - more than 80,000 British claim payments for leave long-term obesity or alcoholism or addiction, contributing to an annual bill of 7 billion pounds for disability benefits, the Government said Thursday.

Of this number, more than diagnose alcoholics and addicts have received payments for more than 10 years, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.

"Be the safety net that it should be, the system benefits took the trap of thousands of people, in a cycle of addiction and the dependence on social assistance, with no hope of return to work" Employment Minister Chris Grayling said in a statement.

Reform of social protection, the Government began to reassess the circumstances of 1.9 million people off the coast of work on the benefits of the inability to see if they are fit enough to return to employment.

Ministers promised more help to people in their work but threaten sanctions against those who avoid getting a job.

The changes are politically risky and could cause a public reaction from both the rise of unemployment, State spending cuts and an economy weakened after a deep recession.

(Reported by Olesya Dmitracova;) (Editing by Steve Addison)

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Why overweight people seeing do us eat more, not less (Time.com)

The Biggest Loser viewers would probably agree to weight loss show feeds with inspiration. Seeing the obese competitors fight makes us feel motivated to eat better, exercise and losing weight too. Turns, this premise is half correct - at least a study which concluded that people can actually eat more people overweight after seeing.

"See someone overweight led to a temporary decrease in a person felt commitment to its goal of health", wrote authors of the study Margaret c. Campbell and Gina s. Mohr, of the University of Colorado at Boulder (which is also the most active city in the United States).

(More on TIME.com: Girl, you are therefore not FAT!) (Is 'Fat Talk' that anyone feel better?)

But why? It has to do with the stereotype "activation", says the study. When people are exposed to members of groups that have stereotypes attached to them, good or bad - as the fat people eat a lot, or Asians are good in math - they become more likely to act in a manner that is consistent with this stereotype. "For example," the authors write, "scores college students' general knowledge issues increases after exposure to a Professor, but decreases after exposure to a Top Model." This is true, even if stereotypical behaviour is negative, and even if it is contrary to the values of the person.

This theory falls to a phenomenon that recent studies have identified the "contagion effect" of obesity, which suggests that people who have fat friends are more likely to take the weight too. TIME reported on the study of 2007 seminal by Dr. Nicholas Christakis, Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and James Fowler, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego:

according to their analysis, when the participant in a study became obese friendthe first participant had 57% more likely to become obese himself. In pairs of persons in which each identified the other as a close friend, when a person become obese, the other had 171% better chance of following action. "We are what we eat is not the end of the story," says Fowler. "" "". You are what you and your friends eat. ?...

The obvious question is, why? Spouses share meals and a garden, but researchers have discovered a much smaller risk of weight - a 37% increase - when one of spouses became obese. Brothers and sisters share genes, but their influence, was too much, much more small, increasing the risk of 40%. Fowler believes that the effect has much more to do with social norms: which we expect when considering appropriate social behavior. Have fat makes friends being fat seems more acceptable. "Your spouse may not be the person that looks at when you are deciding what type of body image is appropriate, how to eat or how much to exercise," said Fowler. Nor do we necessarily compare ourselves to our brothers and sisters. "We get to choose our friends," explains. "We don't get to choose our families."

(Incidentally, the contagion effect also works with weight loss, quitting smoking, and happiness, Christakis and Fowler find.)

(More on TIME.com: food dependency looks like in the brain)

This study suggests a different reason for the effect - activation of stereotypes social versus confirmation of social norms - which means that you should overweight people in your social network close to influence your behavior. Even a fleeting glance of unknown overweight - which occurs that more that you notice probably, considering that 67% of the U.S. population meet the clinical definition of overweight or obesity - trigger might overweight as a stereotype of behaviours such as overeating.

Campbell and Mohr set up a series of five experiments to determine the impact of the mere sight of an overweight person. In the first, researchers recruitment people walking through a lobby on the campus and showed pictures of an overweight or women of normal weight or a lamp. The respondents, average 25 years old, were asked to rate the photos for future studies (a sham task) and then were allowed to use a bowl of candy as a "thank you" for their time.

(More on TIME.com: special report: overcoming obesity)

Those who have seen the photo of the overweight woman took significantly more candy (averaging 2.2 parts) than those who have seen the normal weighted woman or lamp (an average 1.5 parts).

Subsequent experiments of researchers involved "cookie taste tests." As in the first experiment, participants were first sensitized with photos of obese and normal weight or neutral image such as a tree. Then they asked cookies rate tasting at least one (but up to eight) cookies presented on a plate. People looked at the photos of the overweight woman eating cookies significantly more than those who have been exposed to the thin woman. The difference is blocked regardless of sex or the weight of the participants.

Interestingly, however, there were certain factors which interfere with the overnutrition of induced by the fat person. An involved with photos of obese people actually eat. Although the participants ate cookies more after viewing simple portraits of obese people, they ate less when shows of overweight people eating. The difference is that the first condition only active a stereotype - probably unconsciously - while the latter more openly establishes a link between food and weight. "It may be necessary for attention to be distracted by the weight of the person," write researchers. "("If a consumer considers accession stereotype (e.g., "this person is overweight")"), the stereotype effect on... behaviour can be mitigated.".

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Another way researchers kep people eat more: simply their recall their own health goals. When the study participants were invited to write for three minutes on their objectives for health (to words of their State of origin) before eating cookies, they end up eating the same amount regardless of whether if they saw a portrait of a woman for overweight or thin.

"The results of our research are consistent with the spread of obesity through social networks", concluded researchers, whose study was published in the Journal of Consumer Research. "People see, in person and in photographs, the people with whom they have social ties." When near other are overweight, our research suggests that stereotype activation has led to increased food consumption in relation to when near other are of healthy weight since simply see that someone of excess weight may increase to eat. ?

(More on TIME.com: study: overweight workers cost employers 73 billion per year)

Advice from the author to stay on track: keep in mind. Consciously think your personal health goals before to bustling dining can help you to refrain from excess.

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Cards of Malaysia students on weight (AP)

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - the Malaysia schools are giving students another reason to fear their maps of report by their ranking on their weight.

The move is part of a Government push to combat obesity which includes prohibiting cafeterias school from the sale of junk food and sugar soft drinks responsible.

Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai said report cards will soon add body mass index of students for academic degrees in traditional so that parents can decide whether their children should watch their diet. Body mass index is a measure based on the weight and height.

Liow announced the policy effective immediately, in a speech published in Malaysian newspapers Monday.

The Ministry of Health estimates that about a quarter of the Malaysian children are now overweight and more than 10% are obese.

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Wrist size obese children may predict heart disease (HealthDay)

(Monday, 11 April HealthDay News) - the size of wrist of overweight and obese children and adolescents may reveal those at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, according to a new study.

Italian researchers measured the circumference of the wrist of 477 young overweight or are obese, average age of 10. They also used a painless nuclear imaging on about 50 of the children precisely technique for measuring fatty and bony wrist areas more.

Blood tests were then conducted to measure the rate of insulin for children and the amount of resistance to insulin.

The authors of the study concluded that represented wrist circumference 12-17% of the total variance of insulin resistance.

Insulin resistance - a condition in which the body has difficulty with insulin to break down sugar in the blood - is known for cardiovascular disease risk factor. Recent studies have shown a link between bone and blood insulin levels increased mass.

The study is published on 11 April in the journal of the movement.

"This is the first evidence that wrist circumference is strongly correlated with the evidence of insulin resistance," lead author Dr. Raffaella Buzzetti, the University of la Sapienza of Rome, said in a press release of the newspaper. "" "". Wrist Tower is easy to measure, and if our work is confirmed by future studies, circumference of wrist one day could be used to predict the risk of cardiovascular disease and insulin resistance. ?

Bone of the wrist, not the adipose tissue, which explains the resistance to insulin, the researchers said.

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Obesity, diabetes: expand the India faced big problem (AFP)

MUMBAI (AFP) - Indian housewife Sujata Budarapu was shocked when he was told that his two sons were to develop Type 2 diabetes.

"He never even came to me that this could happen." I heard outside the India, this happens to the children of others, but I never thought it would happen to my own, "the age of 38 years in Bombay told AFP."

The Sujata children are not of the exceptional cases, even in a country more traditionally associated with malnutrition and food shortages related to the burden of disease and chronic than overeating.

India still struggles to feed its population of 1.2 billion, but diabetes and obesity have become a growing problem among the middle classes, which have largely benefited from a decade of rapid economic growth.

"Childhood obesity has definitely increased in the past two years," said Dr. Paula Goel, of the Fayth in Mumbai clinic, who runs a youth weight loss program.

"This is mainly because... they play on the field and they are spending so much time on sedentary activities that come with rich lifestyle.".

"Visit the malls on the purposes of week, eating junk food, it was bound to cause obesity.

At the age of 12 years, Saiprasad, youngest son of Sujata watches TV three hours each day and weighs 66 kg (145 pounds) when it should be between 52 and 58 kg.

His eldest boy, Sairaj, 15, tips the scales at 89 kg - 30 kg of overweight.

The two boys enjoy eating oil-rich and fast-food and drugs to control their blood sugar. They attended clinic Goel for three months.

Anoop Misra, President of the Centre for diabetes, obesity and disorders of cholesterol in New Delhi, says that the India is the largest number of diabetic patients in the world to a little less of 51 million people.

But the number could increase by almost 150% over the next 20 years, he warned.

The high number of cases in South Asian people has been awarded to genetic factors, including a predisposition to store more fat.

Factors socio-environnement, however, are now regarded as playing an increasing role in the growing number of cases of Type 2 diabetes.

The condition, which occurs when the body cannot effectively use the insulin that makes much of excess weight and physical inactivity, was seen mainly in elderly.

For the sugar top fast food restaurants, bold, proliferate in Indian cities, catering to a population of hard work, poor in time wishing to pass his renewed cash with Western brands often chosen as a sign of wealth.

"Around the world, except in India, the people love fade, less spicy food,", has declared Himank Doshi, a medical student bite into a takeaway of a stall on the beach of Chowpatty in Mumbai.

"They love food boiled and all nutrition." But the Indian people is less concerned with nutrition. "They first focused on spices for food, the taste."

This state of mind, plus a decrease in physical activity by the increased car use and a lack of open spaces for the year, is a dangerous combination.

A study of 4,000 Indian children in 15 cities, published in the month of August, last year indicated that almost one quarter (23 per cent) 5-14 year olds in urban schools were overweight, while about 11% were obese.

Diabetic obese children are more at risk of developing heart disease and heart attacks, view deterioration, renal failure, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Many young patients of Goel already have mild depression because of their size.

The stakes are high – and not just for the health of the nation: India spent about 40 billion dollars on the treatment of diabetes last year.

Misra, prevention - better health education clinics for weight loss - is cost-effective.

"If prevent us a case we will be saving money so much more, rather than this treatment for the life", he added.

"For an economy in development as the India, it makes sense from 100% to prevent something instead of dealing with insulin expensive and so forth."

Sujata realizes that life in modern India is partly responsible for the situation of its children - and that change is not always for the better.

"If you look at the previous generation, that we have never gone to eat, we just ate home food." Everything was done at home. Now it? s disease and more money more because we have begun to eat more, "she said."

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The obese man Ohio death Raises Questions (ContributorNetwork)

Comment | WTRF-TV in Wheeling, W.V., tells the story this week of an obese man of Bellaire, Ohio), whose body was merged with the Presidency, he served two years. His body was tightened in maggots, urine and feces. The man, who was not identified, died, the station reported.

Questions resonate: "" how anyone could get like this.?"" Here's how.

The body of "the Ohio obese man in the Chair", as it is called, had to be removed through a hole cut in the wall. His body was merged with the Presidency, he served two years. Human flesh grow around and mesh with any object with it constantly in contact, something special fabric. Sitting in the same position for two years, he developed extreme "supine" with continuously penniless, festered and clotted. Chair materials merge in these wounds.

He lived with two roommates, including her friend, who brought him food. It was the girlfriend found him unresponsive and called for emergency support. The girlfriend is being defective so that "the man in the Chair" to obtain this way.

Obesity, alcoholism, is an addictive disorder. It is issues of control, control of itself and its absence. Overeaters anonymous (OA) is based on principles, slogans and 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). The first stage of the AA, OA and Al-Anon is "admitted we were powerless on alcohol (food) and that our lives had become unmanageable."

Some versions read "admitted we were powerless on people, places and things." step 12 programs teach that change must come in the individual. Those who try to change the behaviour of the addict are intended to become unhealthy and interdependent themselves.

How is "the man in the Chair" get to the point where the feces, urine, and maggot covered body was welded to a Chair? Its owner, said she had no idea how bad things were because he was always covered in a blanket. She says that he was once "a person active."

It was of course. It was probably a normal child and a student. He may have spent much of his adult life working, interact and enjoy life. There may be excess weight, but not necessarily obese. Look at Marlon Brando. the darling of America died in obesity. Watch Liz Taylor. America was grossly overweight.

But then something happened to this once vital man. Job loss, unemployment (Bellaire has been seriously affected in the economic doldrums), divorce, issues of the relationship. Perhaps a combination. Some people may weather adversity. Others do not.

Morbid obesity is almost always a response to the morbid depression. Lack of interest for hygiene, health and personal safety are the result of depression and despair. People in desperation want anonymity; They allow themselves to sink into the status of person not. Through television, computers and video games of persons shelters have to face the world real, potentially cruel, vicarious. By allowing himself for the obese, "the man in the Chair" provided virtually that he would never leave or see anyone and few people would come to see.

The only person who has no control over obesity and depression is the addict. We cannot solve the problems of others. We can offer empathy and loving support. Parents can set healthy models for children. We all emotional health problems. By our own programme of work, help each other us. Here are resources to help morbidly obese people and those who love them.

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The Pacific nations fight the obesity epidemic (AFP)

NUKU'ALOFA (AFP) - the supermarket shelves, enormous cans of corned beef Tonga, the size of paint replaced traditional such as fish fare boxes and the coconut long ago - that contribute to an epidemic of obesity that sees the Pacific region ranked as the largest in the world.

Meat Tonga almost invariably comes in a box, Turkey Breast, luncheon meat, meat, or Spam, which can be purchased in a variety of forms, including smoked with pepper or poisoned with cheese for an additional success in calories either.

The common denominator, Tonga? s Malakai Ake of Chief medical officer said, is that "meat junk" is loaded with salt and saturated fat, which means leap of islanders continue to expand.

"It's the biggest problem with Tonga," he told AFP, citing high levels of related to the weight of coronary artery disease, diabetes and stroke among the inhabitants of the island.

All the other days he did y a burial, a nearby neighbour, a parent, a friend. It is always of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, this is ridiculous. ?

The Tongan Health Ministry says more than 90 per cent of the total population is classified as overweight and more than 60% are obese.

According to the world Organization of the health data published last year, the Pacific island nations account for eight of the top 10 countries where male population is overweight or obese.

Weight-related diseases are responsible for three quarters of the deaths in the region, focusing on Fiji nutritionist WHO Temo Waqanivalu said, with rates of diabetes in some Pacific nations about 50 percent.

"This is a problem that health systems are struggling to treat", he said.

"If you walk in a hospital in the countries of the Pacific, about 75 to 80 per cent of the surgery are the result of non-communicable diseases related to obesity."

Some experts believe that economic, cultural and habits have contributed to the obesity epidemic, which is a problem more and more around the world, more acute in the Pacific.

Ake said the traditional way of life, where the inhabitants of guard adapted through agriculture and fishing, have given way to a more sedentary existence in recent years and motor vehicles became more readily available.

"In" my young days we walk everywhere in the world and go swimming, he said. "" "". "Now people use the car to go in a way a little to the bottom of the street".

Traditional plans around fish and root crops are also fallen disgrace, replaced with fatty foods imported from Western countries that islanders see more convenient and more prestigious.

"They are unable to compete with the glamour and the flashiness of imported foods," Waqanivalu said, adding that consumers illiquid in the Pacific often had little choice to make poor food choices.

"In some countries, it is cheaper to buy a soda and a bottle of water."

"When they go down the aisles of the supermarket, probably is the last thing people seeking nutrition information, they are looking at the price.

Pacific Islanders sometimes argue that they have big management course and are more likely to take weight the others, even if it is a theory that rejects waqanivalu.

He said a generous chest circumference had long been considered as a sign of status in the Pacific, but the message was slowly getting more big is not necessarily better.

"We will tell people that being is OK but being bold is different and that is what we begin to see", he said.

Late King Tupou IV of Tonga, who died in 2006, contributed to raising awareness of obesity in the 1990s, when it had organized a national routine of diet and exercise after receiving warnings from his doctors on its weight.

Listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the heaviest monarch in the world to nearly 210 kilograms (463 pounds), he would have lost 70 kilograms.

But Prime Minister Lord Tu'ivakano of Tonga said more must be done to combat the problem of obesity and his Government would seek to restrict imports as mutton flaps - good market, fatty mutton popular waste in the country.

"We return to the old methods, just eat good food - tarots, kumaras (sweet potatoes), Yam," he said

"It is a question of saying: 'Sorry, you have to find an alternative', probably eat flaps fish instead of sheep."

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Born to obese mothers of babies at higher risk of death: study (HealthDay)

(Tuesday, April 5, HealthDay News) - babies born to mothers who were obese in early pregnancy have a greater risk of dying before, during, or up to one year after the birth, according to a new British study.

Researchers examined about 41 000 pregnancies involving delivery of unique to five units of maternity babies in the North of England from 2003 to 2005.

The risk of a baby dying in the womb (fetal death) or up to one year after the birth (infant death) was twice as high among women who were obese (BMI of 30 or more) in early pregnancy among people with normal weight (BMI of 18.5 to 24.5).

There was almost eight deaths more fetal and infant per 1,000 births among obese women and women with a normal weight. Total (absolute) risk of the death of the fetus or infant was 16 years old in every 1,000 births (1.6%) in obese women and close to 9 per 1,000 births (0.9%) in women of normal weight.

The lowest risk was among women with a BMI of 23. BMI, or body mass index is a ratio of weight to height. A BMI of 25 to 29.9 is considered overweight and a BMI of 30 or more is considered obese.

The study was published April 5 in the journal Human Reproduction.

"There are probably a number of reasons why obesity is associated with the death of the fetus and newborn, and we do not yet know the full story," study co-author Judith Rankin Professor of maternal health, perinatal epidemiology at the University of Newcastlesaid in a press release of the newspaper. "For example, he y an increased risk of hypertension or diabetes develop during pregnancy." Understand the risks associated with obesity is useful to take care of pregnant women, health professionals so that additional monitoring may be provided if necessary. ?

Most of the women in the United Kingdom and other developed nations "will deliver a live baby, regardless of their weight in early pregnancy," Dr. Ruth Bell, clinical master of conferences at the University of Newcastle, said in the press release.

"What is essential is that women should be helped to achieve a healthy weight before becoming pregnant or after the birth of the baby." Our research shows that this will allow the child the best possible start in life. "Women should not try to lose weight during pregnancy, but should ensure that they eat a healthy diet balanced," she said.

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Arizona Medicaid considers tax on smokers, obese (AP)

PHOENIX - Arizona cash short Medicaid program is considering charging patients for $50 per year if they smoke, have diabetes or are overweight. A spokesman for the Arizona health care cost containment system said Friday that the tax is intended to control health care costs by pushing patients to keep in good health.

"It engages the consumer to start having a greater awareness of how they fit into the larger puzzle of health," said Monica Coury, spokesman for AHCCCS. "We want to be able to provide health care to the people." And we want to stretch our dollars as far as possible. Part of which is engaging people to take better care of themselves. ?

Some employers in the private sector and the Governments of the States have instituted the increase in premiums of insurance for workers who are obese or smoked, but the Arizona plan would mark the first time a health program of the Federal State for low-income residents accused people to unhealthy lifestyles.

The tax applies only to some adults without children.

A part of the proposal affects people with diabetes. Coury said diabetic who fail to follow the orders of their doctor to lose weight would be subject to the charge of $50.

State Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema said which is not just for diabetics.

"This would be fine people with their own power and control, conditions" Sinema said. I have just Don "t think it is fair to defame a person with diabetes."

Obese people or chronically ill and those who smoke, would need to work with a primary care physician to develop a plan to help lose weight and otherwise improve their health. Patients that do not meet specified goals had to pay $50 in the proposal.

The plan requires approval by the legislature under Republican control, which was discussed $ 500 million of reductions to the Arizona Medicaid program to help eliminate a budget deficit of nearly $ 1.5 billion.

A charge for Medicaid patients would also require federal authorization, and federal rules could prevent Arizona for the application of the tax.

Coury says that the $50 fee are a way of showing the Arizona Federal Government is seriously considering out healthy individuals while extending and better manage the $.

"Part of which requires that we engage the consumer in active and healthy behaviors.

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Nurses can help some overweight kids (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - a programme including regular follow-ups with nurses and concentrated attempts to reduce the TV, fast food and soft drinks seems to keep some children overweight and obésités to have more weight, a new study.

Specifically, girls in General and children from families earning less than $50,000 were less likely to take the weight in a year if they were in the program.

But it seems to have no effect on the boys, or childhood household income higher.

"We have fought a little to try to understand" why the program did not help the children in all, the author of the study Dr. Elsie Taveras of Harvard Medical School says Reuters Health.

"We did not develop as an intervention specifically for children of low-income populations", but that the people in particular and for girls, it has had a big effect, she said.

More, the children who received the intervention reduce watching them TV by about 30 minutes per day, and they have seemed less likely to drink the bicarbonate of soda and fast food. It is possible, with time, these changes could have an impact on their weight, and discover the plan authors for another year, said Taveras.

Other studies have shown a link between obesity and watching TV in childhood. Although this affected program watching TV, but not the overall weight, the two are probably still connected, said the researcher. "I think it's quite possible that (weight) changes lag behind changes in behavior."

Intervention revolves around primary care physicians, thus integrating the same messages healthy in other aspects of the lives of children - child care centres, community centres, schools - perhaps have a greater impact, added Taveras. "The cumulative effects of multiple reinforcements and consistent messages could be much more effective than what we see in the context of just primary health care."

The additional effort would be worth. According to the study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, the more than 1 in 5 U.S. children aged 2 to 5 are obese, and another 1 in 10 are obese.

In the study, Taveras and colleagues randomly overweight and obésités children aged 2 to 6 either normal care from their primary care physicians or a new program designed to help them lose weight.

The program included frequent checkins with a nurse practitioner, which focused on help lose weight and specially designed for ideas to help reduce the TV, fast food and soft drinks.

It took a totally new way of working, said Taveras. For example, nurses have been trained in how to motivate and encourage children and their parents to make changes. In clinics, electronic medical records have been updated to remind doctors order tests and other services.

After one year, none of the two groups of children, in all, had lost weight - so that the program has failed in this regard. However, the girls who received the intervention gained significantly less than weight than boys - 0.4 points on a BMI chart, which factors in weight and height.

Treaties kids whose households received $50,000 or less also earned about 1 full point of BMI less than kids who simply check each year with their primary care physicians.

Interventions aimed at helping children lose weight are often unsuccessful — but always worth the effort, said Dr. Robert Klesges, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, who did not participate in the study.

Last year, Klesges and his team has found that African-American girls who participated in a program designed to prevent them from becoming obese - giving them targets for a healthy diet and exercise while teaching parents about healthy foods - were just as likely to take that weight girls who participated in a program General comments view of itself.

The tests are expensive, but "extremely important," he told Reuters Health, due to the frequency of obesity among children and the damage it can do to their health. "It is an important public health problem, we can not stop.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/eNt0lp Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, online on April 4, 2011.

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The wrestlers rapid weight loss may cause mental Confusion (HealthDay)

(Monday 18 April HealthDay News) - A rapid weight loss in the days before a game of catch can increase the confusion, but has no effect on the force, a new study finds.

American researchers examined the physical and mental effects of "weight cutting" in 16 collegiate wrestlers. Ten days before the competition, the wrestlers weighed and suffered psychological and stress tests. They could then choose a desired weight amount to lose before the match, using methods such as exercise, caloric restriction and fluid deprivation.

The wrestlers weighed again in the days before the match and psychology and strength tests were repeated on the day of the competition.

The wrestlers lost up to 8% of their body mass and average weight loss was approximately six books. Even if they had 10 days to lose weight, they have lost almost all their weight within two days before the match.

Researchers have discovered that wrestlers lost 4 percent or more of their body mass had significantly more high confusion on the day of the competition. No there was no confusion for those who have lost less than 4 per cent of their body mass.

Reduction of body mass has no effect on other psychological functions or grip strength or a lower body power, said researchers at the California State University at Fullerton.

The study is published in the April issue of the Journal of Strength and conditioning research.

It is common for the wrestlers to reduce body mass before a meeting to try to gain a competitive advantage in their weight class, but in "a sport which requires instant decision, a State enjoyed confusion and tension can affect investigations performance of wrestler" researchers noted in a press release of journal.

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Tempting food can trigger the urge to engage (Reuters)

CHICAGO (Reuters) - see a milkshake can activate the same brain areas that light up when a drug addict see cocaine, American researchers, said Monday.

The study helps explain why it may be difficult for some people to maintain a healthy weight, and why it was difficult for the cash and health experts find obesity treatments that work.

"If certain foods are addictive, this may explain in part that the people of difficulty of experience in the realization of sustainable weight loss," Ashley Gearhardt from Yale University in Connecticut and colleagues wrote in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

The Gearhardt team wanted to see what is happening in the brain when young women are tempted by a tasty treat.

They used a type of brain imaging, known as to fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging to study brain activity in 48 young women who offered a milk chocolate or a tasteless solution. Women in the study varies between lean and obese.

The team found that the light triggered milkshake brain activity in the anterior Cingulate cortex and medial orbitofrontal cortex - areas of the brain involved in the envy of the addict use drugs.

And this activity was higher among women in the study of scores higher on a scale that assessed their eating habits for signs of addictive behavior.

"These results confirm the theory that compulsive consumption of foods may be driven in part by increased anticipation rewarding properties of foods", wrote the Gearhardt and his colleagues.

People who are addicted to a substance are more likely to respond to changes in physical, psychological and behaviour when exposed to this substance. Alter "Visual cues" - tempting treats display panels, could for example - help to curb the desire to engage, they said.

They wrote "ubiquitous advertising food and the availability of good palatable food markets may make it extremely difficult to adhere to healthier food choices,.", because the ubiquitous food cues trigger the reward system

The study suggests that the advertising could also play a role in the problem of obesity of the nation, and future studies should look at whether the food ads trigger this type of brain activity.

Obesity is one of the greatest challenges of the United States health, and health officials have already added a requirement new Act health of the President Barack Obama demanding that restaurants add calorie counts to their menus.

(Edited by Laura MacInnis)

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Us cracks down acai berry sellers (AFP)

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US regulators Tuesday announced a crackdown on websites selling acai berry weight loss products with false visas such as CNN, Fox News and USA Today news sites.

The Federal Trade Commission said that he asked federal courts to freeze the assets of 10 operations using tactics "allegedly misleading" as the Web sites of false news to market their products.

Web sites are designed to appear as if they are the testimony of the new legitimate collection agencies.

"But in reality, the sites are simply advertisements aims to deceptively urging consumers to purchase products featured acai berry weight loss", said the FTC.

"Almost everything about these sites is fake", David Vladeck, Director of the FTC Consumer Protection Bureau, said in a statement.

"The results of weight loss, the so-called investigations, journalists, the testimony of consumption and the attempt to portray a goal, journalistic endeavor," said Vladeck.

Sites often include misleading names and logos of the media such as ABC, Fox News, CBS, CNN, USA Today, and Consumer Reports.

A photograph of Melissa Theuriau photogenic French TV presenter is also often used to illustrate the sites, even if it has no affiliation with any of them.

The FTC said that he has received numerous complaints from consumers who spent up to $100 for weight loss products after having been misled by the sites.

He said he will ask the courts to force the companies to provide rebates to consumers who bought the supplements and other products.

The FTC said that the defendants have probably received more than 10 million dollars in commissions dishonestly across the sites.

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Obesity treatment two effective drugs: study (AFP)

PARIS (AFP) - a new treatment of obesity that combines two existing drugs resulted in twice more than the loss of weight as the only approved drug anti-obesity in the long term, according to a study published Monday.

A mixture of Phentermine and topiramate, sold under the brand name of Topamax, has been shown in clinical trials twice as effective as orlistat, which is marketed in some countries such as Xenical or Alli, he said.

Drug combo seems to have additional benefits for the health improvement "markers", or, for blood pressure, levels of sugar, lipids and inflammation, she added.

Phentermine is the most widely prescribed drug of weight in the short term to the United States.

Topiramate is an anticonvulsant approved for the treatment of seizure disorders and migraine headaches. It has been shown that work well for weight in obese diabetic patients of type 2 loss, isolation - but - also has related to the cognitive and psychiatric side effects.

Lower doses taken with a mechanism for controlled release and in combination with other drugs would probably reduce these side effects, tests have shown.

Headed by Kishore Cadde of Duke University Medical Center in Durham in North Carolina the new trial was conducted on 20 months, with almost 2,500 overweight or obese adults at least two symptoms of major health risks.

Patients were divided into three groups.

A received a dose of 7.5 mg of Phentermine and topiramate 46 mg daily, while the second group was given 15 and 92 mg of the same drugs, respectively.

The third group received placebos lookalike.

After 56 weeks of treatment, the low dose group fell, on average, 8.1 kilograms (18 pounds) while that group of high dose hangar 10.2 kg (22 lb).

The patient, account required to placebos lose 1.4 kg (3.0 lbs).

Overall, 62 per cent of patients low dose lost at least five per cent of body weight, while 70% of the cohort of high doses crossed the same threshold.

The patient, account required to placebos lose 1.4 kg (3.0 lbs), with 21% detachment of five per cent of their total weight.

Two drug treatment was well tolerated, with only sporadic cases of dry mouth and constipation, according to the study, which is published by The Lancet.

The high dose group, however, have shown higher because of cognitive and psychiatric reactions abandonment undesirable.

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Stomach 'Pacemaker' would be the new tool for weight loss? (HealthDay)

(Thursday, 7 April HealthDay News) - Silke Zeigler was sick with "yo-yo" dieting diet in its struggle to maintain a healthy weight.

"The first realization was that diets has not worked and actually made things worse, as after the diet, I put the weight I would be lost," said Zeigler, 26, a region of the Germany Wurzburg taxi driver. "Then, I've searched surgical options such as gastric banding or gastric bypass." But, ironically, for these operations I did not quite overweight. ?

And then the University Hospital Wurzburg offered a chance to participate in a test of innovative stomach "pacemaker", aimed at curbing the appetite and weight control.

Zeigler has embraced the idea, to a large extent because of the reversibility of treatment. ", It can always be removed again without permanent effects on my stomach Anatomy, such that [is] going on in a gastric bypass," Zeigler noted.

Ten months after having received the implantable device in what she calls an "easy" operation, Zeigler said she has lost approximately 80 pounds and kept off the coast. "I quickly noticed success because in the first weeks, I've lost 20 kilos of books 44] and with each kilo of fading my increased motivation," she said.

The device, not yet approved for use in the United States, is nicknamed "abiliti" by its creator based in California, IntraPace. According to the company, the device is implanted in the stomach during laparoscopy an hour through small insertions in the abdominal wall.

Once in place, the device uses his sensor for the detection of food sense whenever a patient eats or drinks. This leads to emit electrical pulses low energy to the nerves that trigger a sensation of fullness fast.

IntraPace, users may feel "a sensation" tiny pulses offered by the device. Zeigler said that, in his case, "" the feeling of fullness occurs much earlier today than in the past.""

Activity sensor also follows food intake and the levels of the physical effort of the patient, automatically sending information to a computer for patients and doctors can easily monitor (and adjust) eating habits and exercise.

"Is does not for patients of the police, but to help encourage positive results", Chuck Brynelson, CEO of IntraPace explained.

To date, a completion of the trial, with a second still ongoing - both funded IntraPace - tested device among a total of 65 patients. Both studies were designed to assess the safety and efficacy of the device, rather than comparing it to other methods of weight loss or of drugs.

The results of the first study was presented to the International Federation of 2009 for the meeting of surgery for obesity and metabolic diseases. In this trial, study author Thomas Horbach, Schwabach (Germany), has recruited obese persons with an original pre-implant body mass index (BMI) of 35 and 55 (30 being the threshold for obesity statistics).

After having received the device, the participants have lowered their daily food intake by an average of 45%, researchers said, and they lose an average of 22 per cent of their excess weight in the year of implementation.

IntraPace recognizes that a gastric bypass standard currently produces even more dramatic results - generally a loss of 50 to 60 per cent of excess weight in the year. An another type of Bariatric Surgery, gastric banding, is between 34% and 38 per cent in the first year postoperative weight loss.

However, the company also noted that the more intrusive workaround and banding surgery come with more risks: 0.5 to 0.05% of these patients die, respectively. while 23% to 32% around 88 to 93% of the beneficiaries of the gastric band and patients suffer significant side effects. So far, pacemaker surgery caused no deaths and no major adverse effects in individuals who have received, said IntraPace.

Yet, some U.S. weight loss experts remain less enthusiastic on the device.

Dr. Mitchell Roslin, Chief of Bariatric Surgery at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York State, said that it takes a "view very down" stomach pacemaker technology, rejected as having the effect of "glorified placebo."

"The kind of sophisticated communication that happens between the stomach, nerves and the brain is not as simple as turning on a switch," he said. "It is pulse on this nerve on and in the hope that that mimics the way in which the stomach of the signals in the brain." But the simple state of obesity pacemaker technology today is that all we can currently is the tension or decrease the tension. And, in my view, it is simply not good enough. ?

Another expert, registered dietician and Professor of clinical nutrition Lona Sandon, of the University of Texas Southwestern Dallas, said it remains to be seen if the pacemakers stomach could have an important role to play in weight loss.

"Certainly, it could be another tool in the box to help with the problem of obesity," she said. "Of course, education must play a role on and see what are the risks." "But it seems that it is much less invasive and has the potential for less than surgical risk compared to bariatric surgery, which is a pretty serious surgery that can cause many complications."

It is costs to consider, too: according to Brynelson, abiliti fees now between $20,000 and $23,000, which includes the device more implantation in the stomach. Which is based on costs in Britain, where the device was recently approved for use.

Brynelson said that discussions between Intrapace and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are underway, aimed at describing the parameters of new trials that must be performed before the device could be approved for American patients. In the most optimistic scenario, which would occur before 2014, he said.

Sandon stressed that any weight loss intervention should ideally include changes in lifestyle. "With any any of these devices that may help you eat less, you will need to pay attention to what you put in your mouth and make healthy food choices and increased physical activity to promote overall health," she said. "Surgery does not replace good nutrition." Or perform any type of implantable devices. "Habits are still key to global health in the long term."

Recipient Abiliti Zeigler said that she could no longer agree with these tips.

"Of course, [my weight loss] is also due to a change of diet and lifestyle," she said, noting that since the operation she coupled "a strong desire and willingness to lose weight" with avoidance of fast foods and feeding tilted to salads and whole grains.

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Obesity, disparities in care help Drive U.S. stillbirths: study (HealthDay)

By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter by Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter - Thu 14 Apr, 11: 48 pm EST

(Wednesday, April 13, HealthDay News) - while the rate of stillbirths in the United States has fallen in recent decades, this tragic outcome is still a reality for too many couples, experts say.

As part of a series of studies published online April 14 in The Lancet, report researchers than a cause of death to the United States may be obesity, which can increase the risk of fetal loss.

Obese women are more likely to have diabetes and hypertension, and "these are two of the main causes of stillbirth," noted the principal author of a document, Dr. Robert l. Goldenberg, a Professor of obstetrics and Gynecology at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. "But for reasons that are unclear, most high above hypertension, diabetes, obese women are still more likely to have a stillbirth [than thinner women]."

Limits the access of women to good obstetric care — - particularly for the poor or the mothers of the minority is another important factor. "My estimation is that if all women had access to good care, a third to half of stillbirths in the United States could be eliminated," said Goldenberg.

The stillbirth definition varies depending on the country. For United States, it is generally defined as loss fetal at least 20 weeks of gestation, whereas the World Health Organization defines as fetal death at 28 weeks or later.

Stillbirths are most common in rich countries less. In fact, all over the world the problem takes into account more 2.6 million of foetal deaths each year. Eighty Eighteen per cent occur in low-income countries, but rich countries, including the United States, also meet many stillbirths each year, researchers only.

"Stillbirth does not receive the attention it deserves, because it is a major result of pregnancy, which has been neglected," said Goldenberg. "In the United States there are approximately 27 000 stillbirths each year", he added. "It is also common a bad outcome as infant mortality, and it is much more common than babies infected with AIDS."

However, Goldenberg stillbirths are often not recorded in the infant mortality data, said. In addition, at the United States remains a large disparity in the number of stillbirths among white and black women, he said, with black women more at risk. Similar disparities exist also between urban women and rural and poor women and wealthy women.

"It is disadvantaged women who tend to be much more often stillbirths," Goldenberg said. "This is mainly due to access to care."

Dr. Cathy Spong, Chief Executive of pregnancy & perinatal to the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and human development and author of a newspaper seen accompanying editorial, said that the disparities observed in stillbirths are the same in other adverse pregnancy outcomes.

These disparities "not only works in the stillbirth, it occurs in preterm birth and infant mortality, also" said. "So, you look at conditions during pregnancy, and the bad things that can come to see you consistent disparity."

The good news is that, over the past 30 years, there has been a substantial reduction in stillbirths in the United States, said Goldenberg. He said "fifty years ago, the stillbirth rate was 50 per 1,000 births, to date, it is between three and six per 1,000,".

"We have very well, but there is still much to do." Goldenberg said. "This is primarily due to good obstetric care that most of the United States women", he said. "But women who do not have access to care in a timely manner have as much a fourfold risk of stillbirths increased."

According to Goldenberg, stillbirths occur generally die major "disasters" during childbirth. Include bleeding, seizures, prolonged work or the baby receives not enough oxygen. "Most of these conditions is easily fixed in a good hospital," he said. "Women who do not have access to hospitals are much more likely to have a birth yet."

In the other rich countries, such as the Norway, Sweden and the Denmark, stillbirth rates are about half the rate of the United States, said Goldenberg.

Goldenberg noted that a stillbirth may take a psychological balance on the mother and the family.

"Every woman who is pregnant has a vision and a hope of a live baby," he said. "When a stillbirth occurs women and the family are often devastated, but because in many places there is no recognition of death he is none of the normal types of mourning which would happen if you lost a direct child"said he.""

"Most women display the baby as a child of their who happened to be born is not dead letter, that there is not," said Goldenberg. The mother and the family should be encouraged to grieve for the loss of life and not hide, he said.

"When it is hidden women have a chance to work through it, said Goldenberg.

In addition to advice, many hospitals encourages mothers to infant and name him - to infant, Goldenberg said. "Family members are encouraged to recognize that it is a birth and death: he was a child,"he says. ".

In summary, Goldenberg listed three important messages about stillbirths: this is a result of pregnancy important which must be loaned attention to the; It is for the most part, avoidable, and "when it happens, is not fault the woman."

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Combo of promising drug for the treatment of obesity (LiveScience.com)

Rachael Rettner, staff writer MyHealthNewsDaily,
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A combination of two drugs--and advice on healthy eating and exercise - can be an effective treatment for obesity, a new study suggests.

The participants in the study who took the drug combination has lost more weight on average than those who took a placebo. Seventy percent of subjects who took a strong dose of two drugs, phentermine and topiramate, suffered a loss of weight of 5 per cent a year.

Weight loss from this drug combination was superior to that seen in previous studies of patients who took Alli, currently the only drug approved for treatment of obesity in the long term.

The treatment may provide another option for those who have failed to lose weight with current treatments, said study investigator Dr. Kishore M. Gadde, Director of the programme of clinical trials of obesity at Duke University Medical Center.

"After trying to diet and exercise, you only treat long-term obesity orlistatfor," Gaddesaid. "And if that help you, you jump to the surgery."

"This potentially bridges the gap that exists between the lifestyle changes that are treatments for obesity - diet and exercise - and surgery,"says Gadde. ".

However, others argue the patients in this study were highly selected - rare were selected a month out of the many who were eligible - so researchers do not know if the general population of overweight and obésités individuals could lose the same amount of weightsaid Dr. Pieter Cohen, Professor assistant of medicine at the Faculty of medicine at Harvard and a general internist at Cambridge Health Alliance, which was not involved in the study.

In addition, patients were studied after discontinuation of medication, so it is not clear whether weight loss could be maintained in the long term. Patients may have to be on drugs for the rest of their lives, Cohen said, and the safety of such a scheme is not known.

Although current step in the study, some patients on drugs have experienced serious side effects, including anxiety and depression. Side effects were worse with a higher dose of drugs. There has been concern about the safety of the drugs of loss of weight in recent years. In October, the weight loss drug Meridia was removed from the market after it was linked to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. And in February, the Food and Drug Administration rejected the Contrave weight loss drug approval, citing concerns with the potential cardiovascular risks of the drug.

"What we need to know, is take these drugs increase or decrease the amount of strokes and heart attacks, that these patients will experience," said Cohen.

The study is published online today (April 11) in the journal the Lancet.

Combination of drugs

Phentermine is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of obesity short term, which means that patients can take approximately 12 weeks. But no rigorously designed studies examined the effects of the drug in the long term. Topiramate is a drug used to treat seizures. It was established to assist in weight loss in previous studies, but often causes psychiatric side effects at high doses. It was thought a combination of drugs using lower doses may be more tolerable.

The new study involved 2 487 people overweight or obese in 93 centres to the United States. The participants were required to have at least two conditions in addition to their obesity, such as diabetes and hypertension.

Patients were randomly assigned to receive one of three treatments: placebo, phentermine and topiramate, or a higher dose of phentermine and topiramate. Approximately 1,000 patients received placebo, 500 received a low dose and 1,000 taken a high dose of the drug combination. All participants received information on the practices of diet and healthy lifestyle.

After a little more than a year, the participants in the placebo group lost an average of 3 pounds (1.4 kg), the participants in the combination of the drug dose lower group lost an average of 18 pounds (8.1 kg) and the higher dose group lost an average of 22 pounds (10.2 kg).

Twenty and one per cent of the participants taking placebo reaches a weight of 5 per cent loss compared to 62% in the Group of drug over dose low who reached this loss of weight and 70% in the highest drug dose group.

The combination of drugs also have lower blood pressure and insulin.

The combination can be more effective than current treatments of obesity drugs because drugs have many ways they are acting on the body to cause weight loss.

"When you have a drug with several mechanisms of action, there is more chance that it have much more effectively," said Gadde. "The brain has the ability to find a way to make you eat once more, if we are handling just a small way. If you attack centers of appetite from several different angles, you potentially more successful. ?

Further necessary research

Studies future need to look at the combination of drugs would be more effective than aggressive lifestyle interventions, said Cohen. In this study, participants had materials reading describing healthy habits, but this type of intervention is known not to be effective, he said. Aggressive interventions, help patients develop strategies on their weight loss and include meetings with nutritionists, have demonstrated to cause up to 10 percent weight loss, said the Cohen.

Without these data, the suspects Cohen, it is unlikely that the Food and Drug Administration will approve the combination of drugs for the treatment of obesity, Cohen said.

"In fact, the FDA already considered the results of this test and refused to approval for this combination because the risks that may offset the benefits, the last year,"Cohen said, referring to the decision by the FDA last October""who has refused approval to Qnexa, a drug that combines phentermine and topiramate. "It is a very small group of patients, comparing drugs against doing nothing at all, and is not the type of data that we need to decide whether a drug is really make a difference in the lives of patients with overweight and obésités.".

Pass it: A combination of two drugs generated up to a weight loss of 10 percent in obese people after one year. However, more research is needed to see whether the results apply to the whole of the population and investigate the safety of the drugs.

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Obesity among Australian children of pre-school age in decline (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - less Australia for pre-school children are overweight in recent years to the late - 1990s - and social disparities at the risk of obesity of children seem to be shrinking, concludes a new study.

The results, reported in the International Journal of Obesity, offer some rare good news in the global battle of the Ardennes. Young children, researchers say, may well be "among the first to emerge" from the epidemic of obesity.

But, principal investigator Dr. Melanie s. Nichols, of Deakin University in Geelong, Australia, said "the battle is far from over."

Excess books are still common currency among Australian children from the age of 2, Nichols emphasized and kids from lower income are more at risk.

The researchers found that between 1999 and 2007, there was a gradual decrease in the percentage of overweight and obesity 2 and 3 - years in the Australian State of Victoria.

Just more than 15 percent of the 3-and-a-half-year-olds were overweight or obese in 2007, down from 18.5% in 1999. Among 2 years, the rate of crossing of 13.5% to slightly more than 12%.

Most of the decline is due to the decrease in rates of obesity. Among the 3-and-a-half-year-olds, for example, 4.5% were obese in 1999, against less than 3% in 2007.

In addition, the improvement was largely in children of lower income - which meant that social disparities in childhood obesity rates have decreased over time.

While the Australia right?

Nichols said that it was not clear. This seems to be the first finding of a "clear downward trend" in obesity in Australia, she told Reuters Health in an e-mail.

Internationally, studies in the course of the past years have suggested that the rate of obesity in children are at least stabilizing in the United States, in Europe and the Japan.

According to Nichols, the declines observed in this study may be related to government programs started over the last decade to improve the diets of children and to increase their level of activity.

But, she said: "we have nearly enough information to determine if this was the case."

Parents may also deserve some credit. "The period of study also coincided with an increase unprecedented in media coverage and awareness of obesity as an issue", said Nichols. "It may therefore also the parents react to these messages."

But, despite the progress, "there is still an uneven distribution of the burden of obesity" between socioeconomic groups, Nichols has noted, adding that even among children from the age of 2 years, obesity rates remain high.

Parents can do much to ensure that their children have a healthy gain weight, according to Nichols. This includes limiting kids' TV and the computer time and serve as role models by eating plenty of fruits and vegetables and to obtain regular exercises themselves.

But, Nichols added, Government and the food industry should try to facilitate employment of parents - in, for example, cutting of junk food advertising targeting children.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/gNdWVg International Journal of Obesity, online March 22, 2011.

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Weight loss of PA doc. accused of assault on women (AP)

CONSHOHOCKEN, PA. -doctor of suburban Philadelphia weight loss affected six patients from inappropriate and at least a said that having sex with her would help her lose unwanted pounds, the authorities said accusing doctor of indecent assault.

Arie, Oren, 64, of Narberth, made sexual advances unwanted on patients of the clinic of Conshohocken weight control, authorities said. It was released on bail of $100,000 after his arrest Monday on several counts of indecent assault and indecent assault. Telephone messages left Tuesday by the Associated Press to a house list for Oren and his Office have not returned immediately. His lawyer did not immediately return a request for comments.

Between September and December 2010, multiple patients reported to the police that they had been inappropriately affected by Oren at their sessions of weight loss, the Montgomery County prosecutors, said. Oren often masked his advances as "fat burning, massages," authorities said.

"For a woman to go see a doctor as for help with weight loss, which is a personal matter and then the doctor touch sexually, try kissing, to make such personal comments, this is just a complete betrayal of what a doctor is supposed to do" Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said at a Conference of "". Press, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Oren has had trouble with the law before. In the mid-1990s, he pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and was sentenced to two years in prison and probation three years of and ordered to pay $272,000 restitution, according to court records of.

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Dukan diet of more appeal through connection Kate Middleton (ContributorNetwork)

Like most things to do with the upcoming British royal wedding, speculation that future Kate Middleton may be a proponent of the Dukan diet has catapulted it at the forefront of the media attention. The buzz has started seriously this week when Middleton mother, Carole, have admitted that she had tried to diet, leading others to conclude that the recent weight loss of Kate can be due to the plan as last. The Palace denied the rumours.

The Dukan diet has a striking resemblance with the older Atkins diet and the most recent addition to the popularity of the diet, the diet of day 17, who climbed the bestseller charts this month. As the Dukan diet, which has been established by French nutritionist, the Atkins diet and diet of day 17 were also built by doctors.

As the Atkins diet, the Dukan diet puts its focus heavily on the intake of proteins as the key to weight loss, initially restrict the intake of carbohydrates, vegetables and fruit. There are daily water and exercise requirements built into the basic premise that with no carbohydrates to burn, the body will be pass to release stored fat, thus causing weight loss.

The Dukan diet copies the construction of four phases, made popular by Atkins and the diet of day 17. While the diet of day 17 uses a system of 4 "A" - speed, Activate, Achieve, arrival - the Dukan diet calls their attack, cruise, Consolidation and stabilization. They can be labelled, the general idea is quite similar - to get bad food in your diet and get good food, we hope parameter to a habit of lifetime better eating and moderate exercise long term.

Critics are pointing out however, that very restrictive nature of the diet can make it difficult to maintain over a longer period of time. Boredom with a such menu can make it more tempting for indicated Ethiopian, make the return of the weight. In addition, some nutritionists noted that lower allocation of the diet of vegetables and fruits can steal the body of essential nutrients, a concern for a long time with regard to food fads.

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Diet of pregnant women linked to childhood obesity: study (AFP)

WELLINGTON (AFP) - a future mother during pregnancy diet can alter the DNA of her baby in the uterus increasing the risk of obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes life, an international study has found.

Researchers, said that the study provides the first scientific evidence linking the diet of pregnant women in childhood obesity, with major implications for public health.

"This a breakthrough major because for the first time he gives us the opportunity to work with the optimal diet, a mother should eat,"Professor Peter Gluckman, Liggins Institute University of Auckland told AFP."."

"It is likely to vary slightly from mother to mother, but it might be a major tool in the fight against the obesity epidemic."

The study, conducted by scientists in Britain, New Zealand and Singapore, has shown that a mother ate while pregnant could change the function of the DNA of his child by a process called epigenetic changes.

Children with a high degree of epigenetic changes were more likely to develop a metabolism which "establishes more fatty" and become obese, researchers found.

These children were about three kilograms (6.6 pounds) more heavy that their peers at the time where they were between the ages of six to nine, said Gluckman.

"It's a hell of lot of extra weight at this age, he said, adding that extra fat was likely to be transported to the adult age, increase the chances of developing diabetes and heart disease."

The researchers used fabric cord for measuring the rate of epigenetic change in 300 infants, then discussed if it was linked to the weight of the children when they were between the ages of six to nine.

"The correlation was very strong, that we thought first of all, so that we the replicated again and again", said Gluckman.

The study revealed the effect was not bound either the mother or the baby's weight at birth, which means that a thin woman could offer a little baby who still added became obese because of changes triggered by the diet in the uterus.

Gluckman, said the pace of epigenetic changes was perhaps related to a low-carbohydrate diet, in the first three months of pregnancy but it was too early to reach a final conclusion, and further studies are needed.

He said a theory is that embryo fed with a diet containing low - carbohydrates that provide the body with energy, assumed it would be born into a poor in carbohydrates and amended accordingly its metabolism environment.

This meant that it stored more fat, which could be used as fuel when food was scarce.

Gluckman, said the study, which will be published next week in the journal of diabetes, confirmed the suspicions long poor prenatal nutrition could have a major impact on heath adult.

This meant responsible for health, fight against obesity soaring, rates should consider policies to improve the health of pregnant women, instead of simply focusing on trying to help obese adults, he said.

"It provides the most convincing argument yet to give more weight to the improvement of maternal and child health as a means to reduce the burden of chronic disease".

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Investigational drug for weight loss seems to work: study (HealthDay)

By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter by Steven Reinberg
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(Sunday, 10 April HealthDay News) - obese patients taking a high dose of a called Qnexa experimental weight loss pill an average of 22 books has lost more than a year, while reducing the rate of cholesterol and blood pressure numbersa new study has found.

Qnexa is a combination of two drugs: phentermine drug for weight loss used more widely to the United States, currently available in a variety of brand names, but also a generic; and topiramate (Topamax), better known as a drug used to relieve epilepsy, and migraine.

Qnexa was recently shot down as a weight loss aid, by the Food and Drug Administration because no there was not enough data on the risk of birth defects and problems related to the drug. TOPIRAMATE has been associated with an increased risk of cleft lip / palate in babies born to mothers who took the drug.

The results of the study, which was funded by vivos, creator of Qnexa, suggest that "the combination of topiramate and phentermine when administered with some lifestyle tips could be a valuable treatment for obesity", said principal investigator Dr. Kishore GaddeProfessor of Psychiatry and Director of the programme of clinical trials of obesity at Duke University Medical Center.

One of the important weight loss reasons are that these drugs work by different mechanisms, said Gadde. "In treatment, [by] the mechanisms you have it y a greater likelihood of achieving the kind of weight loss, we expect, a significant proportion of patients," he said.

In addition, the combination of drugs may modify profile of side effects for each drug, he speculated. "The thinking behind the combination of drugs is that some of the secondary effects may actually cancel," said Gadde. "Topiramate causes fatigue and phentermine is a stimulant, so that they may be negating the side effects of each other."

TOPIRAMATE may also cause changes in mood, while phentermine is more exciting, he added.

The report is published in the online edition of The Lancet on April 11.

In this multicenter trial, called CONQUER, the team of the Gadde randomly about 2500 overweight and obésités of men and women in the diet and the consultation exercise alone or alongside counselling once per day low or high-dose Qnexa as pills. Low dose Qnexa contained 7.5 milligrams (mg) of topiramate phentermine and 46 mg, pill contained high dose phentermine 15 mg and 92 mg of topiramate.

After 56 weeks, patients in each dose of Qnexa had lost a lot more weight that those who participated in the programme of counselling, the researchers found.

Those who take the drug combo had an average weight loss of 3 pounds, compared to 18 pounds for those low-dose Qnexa and 22 pounds for those on the high-dose Qnexa.

In addition, while 21% of people in the programme of counselling alone lost at least 5% of their weight, this number rose to 62% of those with low-dose Qnexa and 70% for those on the scheme of high dose.

In addition, people taking of Qnexa have reductions in blood pressure, blood cholesterol, triglycerides (a blood fat) and sugar levels in the blood, Gadde Group found.

The ideal candidates for this treatment are obese and whose weight is affecting their State of health of people overweight, Gadde said.

"When you are looking for weight loss in patients, should not be for aesthetic reasons," he said. "An ideal candidate for weight loss is someone who has the [health] obesity risk."

Gadde stressed that weight loss in the first year of the trial was continued in the second year of the trial.

Side effects occurred in some patients and have been particularly common in the high dose. To those who take high doses Qnexa side effects most often are dry mouth (21%), paresthesia or a sensation of "pins and needles" (21%), constipation (17%), insomnia, dizziness and distorted taste (10%).

Paresthesia is a common side effect of phentermine, Gadde, pointed, while the other side effects are likely associated with topiramate.

An increased risk of depression and anxiety also noted in those taking drugs, seeming to increase as the dosage given pink. On twice the number of people in the high dose drug groups dropped trial against people who receive a single counselling, researchers noted.

"If you see side-effects such as depression and anxiety, you need to pay more attention", said Gadde. You don ' t give the drugs to someone who is clinically depressed ", he added.

According to Gadde, there is no congenital malformations in babies born to 34 women who are fallen pregnant while taking Qnexa in this trial.

Ashley Buford, a spokesman for vivos, said that the company is in the hope to resubmit his application for approval of Qnexa to FDA at the end of the year.

Commenting on the study, obesity expert Dr. David l. Katz, Director of the Yale University School of Medicine Prevention Research Centre, said that "" this study shows that we cause to believe before: that Qnexa facilitates beyond weight loss consultation seultant Office that people are taking the drug-based. ""

However, weight loss may likely not persist if the drug use is stopped, he said.

"In addition, we is not yet known if Qnexa is safe for use in the long term, or even life and therefore cannot yet say if it is safe and useful for weight control in the long term.""," said Katz. "Other drugs that have facilitated short-term weight loss have failed to be translated for use in the long term safe and effective." This is the bar of what a really useful weight loss drug must clearly, "says.

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