11-11-27 Against the backdrop of the growing epidemic of obesity in the United States, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have made an important new discovery regarding a specific gene that plays an important role in keeping...

11-08-03 Obesity is the main culprit（犯人，罪犯） in the worldwide avalanche（雪崩） of type 2 diabetes. But how excess weight drives insulin resistance, the condition that may lead to the disease, is only partly understood. Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Ce...

11-05-17 Obese, asthmatic, anxious or depressed children are more likely to experience excessive daytime sleepiness, or EDS, according to Penn State College of Medicine sleep researchers. Although EDS in children is commonly assumed by physicians and the pub...

11-03-29 Stigma against overweight people is becoming a cultural norm around the world, even in places where larger bodies have traditionally been valued. That's according to a cross-cultural study of attitudes toward obesity to be published in the April iss...

11-03-06 Bariatric surgery refers to several different surgical procedures designed to assist weight loss by limiting the amount of food someone eats or the amount they absorb during digestion（消化，领悟） . It has been used for several years to treat obesi...

11-03-04 Canada has a significantly lower rate of obesity than does the US, a new US government study has shown. 美国政府一项调查显示，加拿大国民的肥胖率明显低于美国。 More than a third of Americans are obese, compared to about a quarter of Canadians, the Ce...

11-01-03 Addiction researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a risk for alcoholism also may put individuals at risk for obesity. The researchers noted that the association between a family history of alcoholism and...

10-11-11 Developing countries should act now to head off their own obesity epidemic, says a global policy group. 一个全球决策组织称，发展中国家应立即采取行动阻止肥胖流行病的蔓延。 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says obesity...

10-09-30 Britons are the fattest people in Europe, with one of the world's fastest obesity growth rates, according to a leading international think-tank. 据一家国际领先的智囊团提供的报告显示，英国人是全欧洲最胖的人，而且英国是世界上肥胖率增长速度最快的国家之...

10-09-21 The emerging idea that obesity may have an infectious origin gets new support in a cross-sectional study by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers who found that children exposed to a particular strain of adenovirus（腺病...