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An editorial published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that severely obese children (defined as Body Mass Index at or greater than the 99th percentile) are at such a great risk for life threatening complications, that treatment such as surgical weight loss or state-intervention should be considered. The editorial argues […]

HealthDay News posted about a recent study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, indicating that obese teens are not any more likely to be depressed than their normal weight peers. The research group consisted of 51 severely obese teens, ranging from 7th-12th grade and a similar group of non-obese teens. The obese teens had […]

According to a cross-cultural study of attitudes toward obesity, stigma against overweight people is becoming a cultural norm around the world.  ScienceDaily and the NY Times reported this week about a survey that will be published in the April issue of Current Anthropology. People from nine diverse areas were surveyed – Mexico, Argentina, Paraguay, the […]

ScienceDaily posted an article this week reporting that nearly one in five children in Sweden is overweight. Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Karolinska Institutet conducted the first national study examining obesity in school children. The study indicates that 17% of children in Sweden are overweight. The study also found that […]

Today HealthDay published an article summarizing two studies that show that physicians play a big role in a patient’s perception of their weight, and their decision to try to lose weight. Both studies were published in the February 28th edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine. A key statistic the article sites is that patients […]