Fat Mum Hastens Path to Childhood Obesity

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There is a correlation between children's obesity rates and those of their mothers, finds a new study. Other factors linked to a child's tendency to become obese include too much time spent in front of the TV and rapidly piling on the pounds in early childhood.

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Lifelong Effects of Childhood Obesity

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Doctor, firefighter, astronaut. These are the things kids want to be when they grow up. Obese 35-year-old with type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease? Not exactly. But according to two studies published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), that's where our children are headed, unless monumental — and immediate — changes are made in the effort to curb childhood obesity.

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Success of 'Shape Up Somerville' childhood obesity intervention to be presented

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Christina Economos, Ph.D, principal investigator of "Shape Up Somerville: Eat Smart. Play Hard", a large-scale community intervention to curb childhood obesity, will present her research at the second annual Friedman School Symposium at Tufts, Oct. 29-31 in Boston. "Shape Up Somerville" was a three-year-long obesity prevention intervention targeted at first through third graders in the culturally diverse Boston suburb of Somerville, Mass.

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Vitamin and mineral supplements in pregnancy and the risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

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"Their own study, of similar size to the Australian study, does not support the hypothesis of a protective effect of folate on childhood ALL. Neither do the findings of the meta-analysis."

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Being breastfed may not cut kids' obesity risk

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A UK research team reports, breastfeeding has many benefits for babies, but protection from obesity may not be one of them.

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Puerto Rico Tackling Childhood Obesity

deirdre submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.examiner.com)

The gym routine for 11-year-old Daniel Alvarado mixes music and games with jump ropes and stationary bikes. But like the other children sweating through workouts, he doesn't come just for fun. He is following doctor's orders.

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Effect of the melanocortin-3 receptor C17A and G241A variants on weight loss in childhood obesity

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The central melanocortin system is critical for the long-term regulation of energy homeostasis. Melanocortin-3 receptor (MC3R) knock-out mice, despite being hypophagic, have increased fat mass and higher feed efficiency than do their wild-type littermates. The aim was to evaluate whether, in childhood obesity, MC3R variants are associated with changes in fatness reduction as a consequence of a weight-reduction program. No new mutations were found. Two previously described polymorphisms, C17A (Thr6Lys) and G241A (Val81Ile), were observed in 20 patients in almost complete linkage disequilibrium

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