New Book Debunks Popular Dieting Myths And Offers Physician-Based Approach For Successful Weight Loss
Approximately 68 percent of alladults in the United States are overweight and 30.5 percent are obese,according to the American Obesity Association. These numbers continue torise each year as men and women are constantly exposed to increasingportion sizes of foods high in sugar and fat, which are less expensive,more available and easier to prepare than healthier options. [click link for full article]

Surgery Becoming A Weighty Issue For Patients
America's ever-growing obesityproblem has shifted onto the office of the orthopaedic surgeon. More obeseAmericans translates to more obese orthopaedic patients and, according to areview article published in the July 2006 issue of the Journal of theAmerican Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, that means orthopaedic surgeonsmust identify the special needs of these patients as well as encouragemethods to decrease obesity. [click link for full article]

Obese Teenage Girls Have High Risk Of Middle Age Death
A girl in her teens who is obese has a much greater chance of dying during middle age than a teenage girl of normal weight, according to researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health. With childhood obesity in many parts of the world on the increase, in years to come we could see life-expectancy coming down. In much of the developed world, and some parts of the developing world, teenage obesity is growing at an alarming rate. In the USA 15.5% of teenagers are overweight. [click link for full article]

Cut Portion Sizes To Fight Obesity, Urges FDA-Funded Report
An FDA-funded report recommends that food-serving establishments cut portion sizes in a drive to combat America's growing obesity problem. The report, titled 'Keystone Forum on Away-From-Home Foods - Opportunities for Preventing Weight Gain and Obesity' suggests that the USA's 900,000 food serving establishments could make a significant contribution towards fighting obesity. 64% of Americans are considered to be overweight, 30% are obese. [click link for full article]

Eleven seen as a key age for obese children (Reuters)
Reuters - Children who are overweight or obese by the age of 11 are likely to carry their excess weight into adulthood and to suffer from related health problems, researchers said on Friday.