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Pregnant Women Don't Exercise Enough: Study Finds Doctors Need To Better Educate Patients
Saint Louis University School of Public Health researchers found that pregnant women were not as physically active as women who were not pregnant. They analyzed data from more than 150,000 pregnant and non-pregnant women who were interviewed by phone in 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000.
Posted on November 11, 2005 - 10:58pm.
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Stanford Scientists' Discovery Of Hormone Offers Hope For Obesity Drug
The new finding could clear up some confusion over how appetite-regulation hormones work. Since the ghrelin protein increases appetite, scientists had expected that animal experiments deleting the protein's gene would turn appetite off.
Posted on November 11, 2005 - 10:56pm.
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Study: Big Portions Influence Overeating As Much As Taste, Even When The Food Tastes Lousy
According to a new Cornell University study, when moviegoers were served stale popcorn in big buckets, they ate 34 percent more than those given the same stale popcorn in medium-sized containers.
Posted on November 11, 2005 - 10:54pm.
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New TNS Study Shows Most Australian Women Are Overweight
A new study by global market research firm, TNS, reinforces growing alarm among health and nutrition professionals that Australia is in the grips of rising levels of excess weight, risking future diabetes, heart disease and cancer epidemics and increasing mental illness in the community.
Posted on November 11, 2005 - 10:53pm.
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Diabetic Blacks Have Less Coronary Artery Disease Than Diabetic Whites
In a surprising outcome, investigators at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center found that diabetic black men have dramatically lower amounts of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, than diabetic white men.
Posted on November 11, 2005 - 10:46pm.
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Study Shows That Dialysis Patients Often Have Close Family Members Also On Dialysis
Nearly one-fourth of all dialysis patients have a close relative on dialysis, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, and others, report in the current online edition of the American Journal of Nephrology. The researchers suggest screening other relatives for undetected kidney disease.
Posted on November 11, 2005 - 10:44pm.
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Researchers Looking At How Neighborhoods Contribute To Healthy Lifestyles
Project by nutrition researchers from Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is part of efforts to learn how a neighborhood influences physical activity and diet.
Posted on November 11, 2005 - 10:42pm.
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