Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week articles from March 2002

Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week archives from March 2002

Study Reveals Body Fat Impact Of Conjugated Linoleic Acid.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A recent article published in The Journal of International Medical Research (2001;29:392-396) features a study by Scandinavian Clinical Research AS (SCR), of Kjeller, Norway, demonstrating that...

Obesity, Glyburide Linked To Acute Pancreatic Disease.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - A population-based study performed in Sweden has linked obesity and use of the drug glyburide to acute pancreatitis in adults. The Swedish study...

Weight Loss Aids, Energy Boosters Potentially Hazardous.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Speaking for the New Jersey Chapter, American College of Cardiology (NJ-ACC), Richard A. Cytryn, MD, recently warned of the potential danger of dietary supplements containing the herbal stimulant...

Poor Indoor Lighting May Encourage Binge Eating.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A New Year's resolution to diet may have its dark side. Longer nights and overcast skies common in winter may actually make dieters more susceptible to binge eating, a University of California Irvine...

Rapid Weight Gain In Infancy Studied.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Babies who gain weight very rapidly during their first 4 months may be prone to obesity later in life, new research suggests. Regardless of weight at birth and age 1, such infants were...

Survey: Most Health Plans Offer Programs for Prevention Of Obesity-Related Illnesses.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than 90% of U.S. health insurance plans responding to a recent survey offer a wide variety of programs to promote regular physical activity, an essential component of reversing some of the...

Nutritional Supplements Can Help Patients Gain Weight, Raise CD4 Counts.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Nutritional supplements enriched with peptides and some fatty acids can help HIV patients gain weight while improving immune function, researchers in Spain...

Scientists Find Cellular Link Between Muscle Loss, Fat Gain.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have reported a possible link between muscle loss and fat gain that may point to ways to reduce frailty in old age. The...

Cellular Molecules Rise In Diabetic Smokers, Don't Fall After Cessation.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Scientists in Japan have learned that in diabetic individuals who smoke, serum levels of molecules contributing to atherosclerosis will often rise and won't...

Intramedicine Licenses Clinical Information To Pharmavite.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Intramedicine, Inc., a leading health information publishing and new technology services company, announced today that it is licensing its consumer suite of science-based, clinical information to...

Some Patients Not Seeking Rapid Heart Attack Care.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study in the current Annals of Emergency Medicine finds the elderly, women, diabetic patients and minorities, who are experiencing symptoms of a heart attack, are more likely to experience delays in...

Chronic Sleep Loss Leads To Higher Risk Of Premature Death; May Be Factor In Type 2 Diabetes Increase.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- People who persistently get less sleep than they need have a 70% higher risk of premature death than those who get enough, medical studies reveal. There's also preliminary research suggesting that...

Product Delivers Long-lasting, Low-Level Heat To Provide Relief and Relaxation.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Procter & Gamble Company announced the national launch of ThermaCare Air Activated HeatWraps - a groundbreaking product developed in response to a growing body of clinical research indicating...

Antioxidant Vitamin E Reported To Strengthen Immune System.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vitamin E may play a role in living to the age of 100, according to the Harvard Medical School. A recent issue of the medical school's publication, the Harvard Health Letter, reports on a dozen...

Companies To Obtain DNA Specimens To Study Diseases In U.S. Hispanics.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- GenoMed, Inc., (GMED) a St. Louis, Missouri-based medical genomics biotechnology company, announced that it has entered into a Letter of Agreement with Muna, Inc., a Florida company, to obtain blood...

Cutting Heart-Related Risk In Non-Heart-Related Surgery.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New practice guidelines to assist physicians in evaluating and managing the risk of cardiovascular complications in heart disease patients immediately before and after they undergo non-heart-related...

Exercise-Induced Asthma Common in Athletes.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- As winter Olympians prepare for the 2002 games in Salt Lake City, Utah, many of them are developing training regimens that take into consideration their exercise-induced asthma (EIA). EIA is quite...

Strength Training Program for Young Athletes Now Available.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Sports Medicine Institute for Young Athletes (SMIYA) at Hospital for Special Surgery, in New York City, has started a supervised strength-training program for young athletes. While the belief...

Increases in Wives' Income Affect Psychological Well-Being Of Husbands.
March 2, 2002... 2002 FEB 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Being the main breadwinner still seems to carry an important distinction for husbands and their sense of well-being, a Penn State researcher has found. In reacting to increases in their wives'...

Trunk fat causes heavy load for boys.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Boys with chubby bellies are more likely to have high blood pressure than their slimmer counterparts, according to a report in the February 4, 2002 rapid access issue of Circulation: Journal of the...

Intensive training may not be as bad for young women as previously thought.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Intensive training may not stunt young women's physical development as we have been led to believe. Writing in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Professor Nicolo Maffulli of Keele University and...

Bodybuilders may be abusing prescription-only drugs bought online.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Bodybuilders who abuse prescription-only drugs bought on the Internet are risking their health, highlights a case report in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The easy availability of these drugs...

Lack of awareness of type 2 diabetes, heart disease poses threat within ethnic communities.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a new survey released by the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC), more than 40% of African Americans and Hispanics with type 2 diabetes do not consider heart disease and diabetes to be...

Experts offer the skinny on search for healthy fat.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Although current research suggests that we replace some of the omega-6 fats in our diets with omega 3s in order to have a healthier balance of essential fats, that's easier said than done. Diets...

Recreational hockey players exceed target heart rate.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hockey players are often told to "leave it all out on the ice," but a new study by Sanita Atwal and colleagues suggests that recreational players may be exercising too intensely and triggering dangerous...

Metabolic Diseases Drug Discovery and Development summit May 6-7.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The world metabolic disease research community will be convening in Philadelphia, Pennsylvaina, on May 6-7, 2002, to attend, speak, and exhibit at "Metabolic Diseases Drug Discovery and Development,"...

Bayer and CuraGen advance four projects, select additional obesity and diabetes targets.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Bayer Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bayer AG (BAY) and CuraGen Corporation (CRGN), an integrated genomics-based drug discovery and development company, announced that they have successfully...

Deltagen announces first target from its research pipeline.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Deltagen, Inc., (DGEN) announced the identification of DT011M, a key insulin-mediating drug target, for the potential treatment of obesity and related diseases, such as diabetes. Deltagen has plans...

Despite declines in heart disease deaths, rates still higher in African Americans.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Despite recent declines in coronary heart disease (CHD) death rates, a disparity between African Americans and white Americans has increased, according to research presented at the American Heart...

New website on morbid obesity, weight loss surgery now available.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new website, www.weightlosssurgeryinfo.com, was launched to provide comprehensive information on morbid obesity and weight loss surgery, a rapidly growing option for people 100 pounds or more...

Second phase III pivotal trial of synthetic exendin-4 for type 2 diabetes initiated.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (AMLN) announced the initiation of the second of three planned Phase III pivotal trials of AC2993 (synthetic exendin-4), a compound being studied as a potential treatment...

CRP provides another reason to lose weight and gain heart health.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Losing weight may lower blood levels of the inflammatory marker called C-reactive protein (CRP), a factor associated with an increased risk of heart disease, according to a report in the February 5,...

Topiramate development extended to simplify dosing, improve tolerability.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, LLC, (JJPRD) a Johnson & Johnson company (JNJ), said it will revise its clinical development program for the use of topiramate in obesity to...

Patients want states to force insurers to cover gastric bypass.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Valerie VanBrussel feared that morbid obesity would kill her before she could get her insurance company to pay for surgery that would enable her to lose weight. Denise Rasley weighed 350 pounds and...

Fitness Fever offers fun and fitness for Minnesota students.
March 9, 2002... 2002 MAR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- There's a fever coming to Minnesota's elementary schools this February, and it's likely to cause an epidemic of fun with fruits, vegetables, and fitness. More than 265,000 first- through...

'Night eating syndrome' may be related to performance of body, not mind.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to new research findings by Norwegian physiologists, the midnight raid on the refrigerator may not be the product of an insatiable appetite. Instead, the night eater may be suffering from a...

Lean mice adjust to appetite suppressant quickly, fat mice don't.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Expanding their studies of an experimental compound that causes dramatic weight loss and appetite suppression in mice, Johns Hopkins researchers now report that lean mice rapidly adjust to daily doses...

Fat tissue contributes to leg aneurysms in obese patients.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Terry Hartnett, senior medical writer - Chronic swelling of the extremities in obesity may not be as benign as thought, according to a report from Switzerland. "Multiple microlymphatic aneurysms...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings reports on epidemic of obesity.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Three articles and an editorial in the February 2002 Mayo Clinic Proceedings outline the difficulties facing people who are overweight but offer some strategies that might help reduce the surge of...

Doctors need to use encounters to urge patients to get off the sofa.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The authors of a new report assert, with ample verification, that today's lifestyle is crippling the health of this and future generations and they urge primary care physicians take advantage of their...

Energy balance, not exercise, key to athletic menstrual disturbance.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Female athletes often lose their menstrual cycles when training strenuously, but researchers have long speculated on whether this infertility was due to low body fat, low weight or exercise itself....

Overstimulation of glands may play a major role in obesity.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Terry Hartnett, senior medical writer - Chronic overstimulation of the adrenal and pituitary glands may trigger uncontrollable appetite and obesity, say researchers in Italy. Obese patients may...

Blood pressure drugs relax heart, reduce heart failure risk.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- People who take medications to lower blood pressure may also be improving their heart's pumping action, thus reducing their risk of congestive heart failure, according to research in the February 11,...

Record analysis shows slight connection between inflammation and disease.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Terry Hartnett, senior medical writer - Although some patients with diabetes may have symptomatic inflammation, there is no conclusive evidence that swelling causes the disease, say researchers at...

Trend to overweight and obesity in adolescents on the rise.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Terry Hartnett, senior medical writer - Overweight and obesity in adolescents has become a concern in developed countries, say researchers in Ireland. Finding no current data on the subject for...

Gene variant, hypertension linked in obese patients.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Terry Hartnett, senior medical writer - A gene variant that is not race specific may well be the primary factor in whether an obese person will develop high blood pressure, say researchers in Japan....

New diabetes guidelines emphasize diet high in monounsaturated fat.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Diabetics are no longer limited to a high-carbohydrate/low-fat diet, according to the latest guidelines issued by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). While that is still considered a healthy diet,...

Company reports positive results from phase IIA trial for obesity drug.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new antifat drug could be available in 4 years. Tests on obese men showed encouraging results, according to Melbourne-based Metabolic Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. The company said its phase IIA human...

High-sugar diets overtaking smoking as greatest threat to oral, general health.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In the 1990s it was cigarette, but today obesity may soon surpass smoking as the single greatest threat to oral health, warned the American Dental Hygienists' Association (ADHA). "Snacking on food...

Company acquires U.S. rights to Actigall from Novartis.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (WPI) has acquired United States rights to Actigall (ursodiol USP capsules) from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. Actigall contains ursodiol, a naturally occurring bile...

Diet, exercise delay onset.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Millions of Americans at high risk for type 2 diabetes can dramatically lower their chances of getting the disease through diet and exercise, according to a nationwide study at Johns Hopkins and 26...

Proper nutrition during pregnancy decreases risk of adult-onset disease.
March 23, 2002... 2002 MAR 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Terry Hartnett, senior medical writer - Whatever the cause, a low-birth-weight infant is more likely to develop diabetes later in life than a normal weight or even "fat" baby by today's standards....

Maya children in U.S. more likely to be overweight than whites or blacks.
March 30, 2002... 1902 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Maya children in the United States are taller and longer-legged than Maya children in Guatemala, as a result of greater access to food and health care. But they are also much heavier, probably because...

Muscle gene influences fat storage in mice.
March 30, 2002... 1902 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- For mice genetically altered to get fat, knocking out a particular gene keeps them both leaner and healthier, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine scientists report in the March 1, 2002 issue of the...

Compounds rejuvenate rats, may aid humans.
March 30, 2002... 1902 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University and the University of California at Berkeley have identified a combination of dietary supplements that dramatically improves both...

Researchers suspect exercise may help prevent sudden heart death but proof still needed.
March 30, 2002... 1902 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers suspect exercise can help to ward off the heart catastrophe called sudden death. The experts concede they are short of proof, but they think people should exercise anyway. Cardiac...

Exercise can forestall diabetes in at-risk patients.
March 30, 2002... 1902 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Duke University Medical Center researchers have shown that long-term, intensive exercise can significantly improve the body's ability to control blood sugar levels, adding further evidence that...

Sky's the limit challenges have strongest effect on the heart.
March 30, 2002... 1902 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Activities in which people are encouraged to do their best will raise their heart rate and blood pressure more than if they simply try to achieve a specific goal, suggests new research. When given...

Too many patients never make it to the hospital alive.
March 30, 2002... 1902 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- About half of all deaths from heart disease happen before the patient can get to a hospital, the government has reported, a finding health officials called alarming. The U.S. Centers for Disease...

Label-reading shortcut can help cut the fat.
March 30, 2002... 1902 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientific research shows that shoppers who read food labels cut about twice the amount of fat from their diet than those who don't read labels. Cutting saturated fat and cholesterol is an important...

Cloned animals suffer from obesity.
March 30, 2002... 1902 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- After the news that Dolly the sheep has arthritis and that cloned mice may have a reduced lifespan, Nature Medicine reports on a further abnormality of animals produced using the technique: cloned mice...

CDC: Diabetic women often poor.
March 30, 2002... 1902 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women with diabetes are twice as likely to be poor or undereducated as those without the disease, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The findings...

Leptin replacement reduces metabolic abnormalities in patients with lipodystrophies.
March 30, 2002... 1902 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Leptin replacement therapy drastically reduces triglyceride levels and controls diabetes in patients with rare fat disorders known as lipodystrophies, according to researchers at UT Southwestern...

Company reports fourth quarter and year end 2001 financial results.
March 30, 2002... 1902 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- AtheroGenics, Inc., (AGIX) reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ending December 31, 2001, which included a substantial increase in research and development spending,...

Roche, Vernalis sign new R&D agreement on antiobesity drugs.
March 30, 2002... 1902 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Roche and Vernalis (VER) announced the signing of a new research and development agreement that focuses on antiobesity drugs. The collaboration between Roche and Vernalis aims to develop highly...

NHLBI issues resources to help Americans "act in time to heart attack signs".
March 30, 2002... 1902 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Too few Americans get to the hospital fast enough when a heart attack occurs. The main reason is patient delay. Those experiencing heart attack symptoms should call 9-1-1 within minutes - five at...