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Fried Food and Fatter Kids
New research shows that adolescents who eat large amounts of fried food away from home are heavier and more likely to have a poor-quality diet. Increased consumption leads to increase in body mass index of 9 to 14 year olds; puts children at risk for chronic disease later in life.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:22pm.
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Perceptions Of Peer Opinion Influences Attitudes About Obesity
According to a study at Yale, one of the most effective ways to change negative attitudes about obese people is by addressing perceptions of normative beliefs within particular social groups.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:20pm.
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Seaweed Could Make Junk Food Healthier
Junk food could be made healthier by adding an extract of an exotic type of seaweed, say British scientists.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:18pm.
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Defective Lymphatic Vessels Identified As A Novel Cause Of Adult-Onset Obesity
Laboratory model missing one copy of Prox1 gene exhibits abnormal increase in fat accumulation around sites of lymph leakage from defective lymphatic vessels.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:12pm.
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Hopkins Study Shows Living Kidney 'Paired Donation' An Effective Strategy In Overcoming Donor-Recipient Incompatiblities
A Johns Hopkins study has affirmed the success of living kidney "paired donation" (KPD) as a means of efficiently finding more kidney donors who are a match for patients in need.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:11pm.
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Use Of Kidney Paired Donation For Incompatible Donors Could Expand Donor Pool
A preliminary study suggests that kidney paired donation transplantation, in which incompatible donor/recipient pairs exchange kidneys so that each recipient receives a compatible kidney, had graft survival rates equivalent to compatible live donor transplants.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:09pm.
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Kidney Transplant Patients Face Higher Cancer Risk
People who receive a kidney transplant are nearly four times more likely to develop melanoma, a rare but deadly form of skin cancer, according to a study.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:06pm.
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