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Wait, Now They Tell Us Being Overweight Is OK?

Posted on 01/3/2013 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthJust in time for those New Year’s resolutions about diet comes this surprising news: While being obese is still bad for your health, new research suggests that those who are moderately overweight have a lower risk of dying than normal-weight people do. The study, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is a big one — an analysis of 100 international studies that included about 3 million adults. The authors were researchers with the National Center for Health …

New Diet Pill Belviq: 5 Things You Should Know

Posted on 07/9/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthBelviq, the first new prescription weight-loss pill in 13 years, won approval last week from the Food and Drug Administration. The drug, generically known as lorcaserin, works as an appetite-suppressant, triggering receptors in the brain that make people feel full. It offers a new diet aid to the one in three Americans who are obese. Don’t expect dramatic results, however, as the Washington Post notes. In the three trials of almost 8,000 overweight and obese people over 52 to 104 …

The Takeaway: Romney Presses Social Security Issue; Heavier Women Less Strong; Health Insurance’s “Good News”

Posted on 09/22/2011 by | Brooklyn, NY | Comments

News RoundupsA new study of older women finds those that are overweight actually have less leg strength and power than their normal-weight counterparts … A survey finds that the cost of employer-based health insurance will rise less this year than in the previous few … Scientists have found a way to reverse the aging of human stem cells—which is good news, because our old fountain-of-youth hope—’longevity genes’—isn’t holding up so well in light of new research.