How artificial sweeteners may be making slimmers put on weight

Australian researchers find hunger switch

wugongliang submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.reuters.com)

Australian scientists have found how to switch hunger on and off using a molecule that targets the brain -- a discovery which could stop weight loss in terminally ill patients or produce weight loss in the morbidly obese.

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Heavy moms who shed pounds still have big babies

DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.reutershealth.com)

Overweight women are known to have a greater chance of giving birth to a larger-than-normal baby. But new research suggests that these odds stay higher even when a woman loses weight before pregnancy.

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Teen skinfold thickness predicts adult weight

Reviver submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.reutershealth.com)

A long-term study has found that skinfold thickness during adolescence is a better predictor of being overweight as an adult than adolescent body mass index (BMI) -- the ratio of weight to height commonly used to classify an individual as over-, under- or normal-weight.

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Long-term weight losses associated with prescription of higher physical activity goals. Are higher levels of physical activity protective against weight regain?

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High levels of exercise may be necessary for long-term maintenance of weight loss. We aimed to determine in a randomized prospective design whether encouraging 2500 kcal physical activity/wk produced greater 30-mo weight losses than did the standard 1000 kcal physical activity/wk prescription. Although participants in the HPA group sustained the 2500-kcal activity goal during the 18-mo treatment, activity declined once treatment ended, which resulted in no between-group differences in activity or weight loss at 2.5 y

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