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Body Image
~ Dieters compromise IQ
~ Do it yourself self-esteem repair
~ Eating disorders in female athletes
~ Male action toys sport huge muscles
~ Media influenceon self-image: The real fashion emergency
~ Women's  body image complicates HIV treatment
 

Children / Teens
~ Benefits of meat for children and teens
~ BMI often mislabels risk
~ Ethnic variation of body fat ratios
~ Low income children continue gain
~ Teen steroid abuse risies
 

Eating Disorders
~ Anorexia marks steady increase
~ Anorexia trends
~ Dieting behaviors in college students
~ Disordered eating on campus
~ Disturbed eating for toddlers
~ Does dieting trigger bulimia?
~ Early treatment critical in bulimia
~ Eating disorders in female athletes
~ Eating disorders increase in Asia
~ Fluid restriction in anorexia
~ Meatless diets put athletes at risk
~ New treatment enlists parents
~ Sexual abuse and eating disorders
~ Thin models upset women
 

Food Intake / Nutrition
~ Calorie increase, fat increase
~ Calorie intake same for larger persons
~ CHO converts to fat  within fat tissue
~ Fat consumption
~ Low-fat diet questioned
~ Milk down, soft drinks up for teens
 

Health / Wellness
~ Healthy Weight Week nominations sought
~ Intermittent exercise helps
~ Is obesity catching?
~ Master's program combines eating disorders, obesity
~ 'Metabolic fitness' concept
~ Thin diabetic
~ Women lead the way in fitness
 

Health Risks
~ American Indian heart disease not linked to obesity
~ Cancer study estimates BMI and mortality risks
~ Death rate lowest at BMI of 34
~ Deaths shock college wrestling
~ Deaths reveal liposuction risks 
~ Dentists warned of fen-phen risk
~ Elderly women's mortality risk rises with weight loss
~ Excess fat, not BMI, the risk for mortality
~ Fertility events link to women's weight gain
~ Inflammation causal to obesity?
~ Low weight predicts fractures for older women
~ Rapid weight lossinvolves risk
~ Recommendations on fen-phen
~ Risks less than expected
~ Steroid alternative is dangerous
~ Warning issued on PPA
~ Weight cycling increases risk
~ Weight effect on breast cancer minimal
 

Health-centered Approach
~ Shifting to a new paradigm: A health centered approach
   to weight and eating
~ Exploding the myth: Dieting makes you happier
 

Obesity
~ Teen dieting leads to weight gain
~ Viral connection to obesity
 

Obesity Treatment
~ Air Force women worry over weight
~ Avoid Prozac "phen-pro" risks
~ Brain damage from diet pills
~ Diet drugs require low-calorie diet
~ Eating Disorders Screening
~ FDA approves Meridia as new diet drug
~ Fen-phen dosage predicts risk
~ Liposuction linked to 5 deaths
~ Medical journal questions obesity treatment
~ Metabolism drops lower for dieting black women
~ Night-eating syndrome
~ Questions and answers about fenfluramine & dexfenfluramine
~ Redux, fen-phen withdrawn from market
~ Redux to settle
~ Registry finds long-term weight loss
~ Wyeth-Ayerst warns of drug combination
 

Physical Activity
~ Exercising for women: Reshaping attitues
~ Fidgeting: every little bit counts
~ Fitness more critical than weight
 

Prevalence / Statistics
~ Obesity doubles in England
~ Obesity rates boosted
~ Obesity up for German kids
~ Ominous trends
~ Polynesians carry more lean mass
 

Prevention
~ 7th Annual Healthy Weight Week celebrates health and diversity
~ Protein triggers thermogenesis
~ Reducing weight gain at puberty
~ World report on obesity: Prevnetion
 

Size Prejudice
~ Breaking free: The Health at Any Size Revolution
~ Integrated approach: Health at any size
~ Survival of the "best & brightest"
 

Smoking
~ Anti-smoking forces deny thinness issue
~ Youth smoke to control weight
 

Weight Loss or Gain
~ Alcohol increaes waist-to-hip ratio
~ Cold weather births
~ Diabetes treatment and obesity: a dilemma
~ Dieters' nightmare comes true
~ Gene linked to weight retention after childbirth
~ How to evaluate weight loss programs
~ Is weight loss after 50 inadvisable?
~ Mauritius islanders gain weight
~ Normal weight gain in growing children
~ Psychiatric drugs cause weight gain
~ Shiftwork increases weight
~ The ethics of promoting weight loss
~ Weight cycling hikes gallstone risk
~ Weight cycling in Iowa women
~ Weight loss for the overweight: Panacea or pound-foolish