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1. How Fat Is Your State?
   

   July 8, 2009 -- A new CDC report shows that the nation's waistline is still growing, or holding steady in some states, but not shrinking at all. The CDC today released its latest obesity statistics, based on interviews conducted last year with more than 400,000 U.S. adults who reported their height

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2. Life's Stress May Lead to Weight Gain
   

   July 8, 2009 -- Lost your job? Worried you will? Feeling a lack of control over decision-making at work? If you've been gaining weight, chances are you answered "yes" to one or maybe all of those questions, new research indicates. A study in the July 15 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology

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3. Fattest State Weighs Its Options
   

   July 1, 2009 -- It's official, again. For the fifth year in a row, Mississippi is still the nation's heaviest state -- ground zero for obesity in the U.S. That's according to a new report, F as in Fat 2009, issued today by the nonprofit Trust for America's Health in partnership with the Robert Wood

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4. Study: Overweight People Live Longer
   

   June 25, 2009 -- There is more evidence that people who are overweight tend to live longer than people who are underweight, normal weight, or obese. In a newly published study, people who were underweight and those who were extremely obese died the earliest. People who were overweight, but not obese

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5. Youthful Obesity Linked to Pancreatic Cancer
   

   June 23, 2009 -- Teens and young adults who are overweight or obese may be more likely to develop pancreatic cancer later in life, a new study shows. The study, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, compares the self-reported weight of 841 pancreatic cancer patients and 754 h

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6. Mediterranean Diet May Boost Longevity
   

   June 23, 2009 -- Want to live a long time? When you prepare dinner tonight, go heavy on the vegetables, skip the meat, and enjoy a bit of wine. Past research already has linked the so-called Mediterranean diet with longevity. A new study finds that certain aspects of the diet -- such as high consump

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7. Vinegar May Aid in Fat Loss
   

   June 22, 2009 -- The latest weapon in the battle of the bulge may be as close as your kitchen pantry. Ordinary household vinegar -- used to make oil-and-vinegar salad dressings or pickles -- appears to turn on genes that help fight fat, researchers in Japan report. Vinegar has long been touted as a

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8. Calcium Pills May Not Slow Weight Gain
   

   June 18, 2009 -- Taking calcium supplements may not prevent weight gain in overweight or obese people, new research shows. That finding, published in the June 16 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, comes from a two-year study of 340 overweight or obese adults in the Washington, D.C., area. Par

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9. Skip Breakfast, Get Fat
   

   June 15, 2009 -- Skipping breakfast is often a big no-no if you are trying to lose or maintain weight because it leads to high-calorie cravings later. Now researchers think they know why that happens. Forgoing the first meal of the day actually tricks your brain into thinking you want higher-calorie

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10. Contrave: New Weight Loss Drug Advances
    

    June 8, 2009 - A new weight loss drug looks good in late-stage clinical trials. The drug is Contrave, from Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. It's a combination of two existing drugs: The antidepressant Wellbutrin and the addiction drug naltrexone. Contrave doesn't work in the belly. It works in the hypotha

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