The TOS Fellowship deadline is approaching quickly! Don’t...
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TOS marketing team is seeking photo submissions of TOS members at work, engaging with patients, working...
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The Obesity Society is pleased to announce Christos S. Mantzoros,...
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Fellowship is one of the highest honors The Obesity Society bestows....
source: Rachel Goldman, PhD
Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) is a nationwide NIH-funded research program whose mission is to enhance the health of children for generations to come. The overall...
source: NIH
Keeping it Basic: A Review of the Study, "The Cooccurrence of Obesity, Osteoporosis, and Sarcopenia in...
source: TOS
Obesity is a multifactorial disease. No surprise there. Environment, advertising, behavior, politics, along with a dozen other factors, play a role. What about your breakfast cereal or wall-to-wall carpeting? In the case of the cereal, unless you’re chowing down on...
source: The Huffington Post
Artificial sweeteners have been controversial for almost as long as they’ve been around. As early as 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt was compelled to defend the world’s first no-calorie sweetener. “Anybody who says saccharin is injurious to health,”...
source: Vox
A new, in-depth study of New Zealand children and teenagers seeking help with weight issues has found their emotional health and well-being is, on average, markedly worse than that of children without weight issues.
Researchers found...
source: University of Auckland via Medical Xpress
Notice your jeans getting a little tighter? And having some trouble dragging yourself away from seconds and thirds at the dinner table?
If so, there may be an easy way to shed that excess fat fast — without tweaking your...
source: Men's Health
FDA is issuing an update to alert health care providers of five reports of unanticipated deaths that occurred from 2016 to present in patients with liquid-filled intragastric balloon systems used to treat obesity. Four...
source: U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Scientists have started to test therapeutic skin grafts that aim to manage glucose levels and body weight in cases of diabetes and obesity. They have recently been tested on wild type mice for the first time, which yielded promising results.
source: Medical News Today
Almost one out of every six children in Denver is obese, according to a new report. And, while a campaign to reduce consumption of sugary drinks may be making inroads into obesity for the youngest kids, deep racial and ethnic inequity remains for obesity in all children.
source: The Denver Post
For middle-aged women struggling with their weight, a recent spate of scientific findings sounds too good to be true. And they may be, researchers caution. Studies in mice indicate that a single hormone whose levels rise at menopause could be responsible for a characteristic...
source: The New York Times
