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Heavy Teens Eat Less But Weigh More Than Their Thinner Peers : The Salt : NPR

It may be more important than we thought to tackle obesity in childhood. A new study published in Pediatrics finds that overweight teenagers eat fewer calories than their healthy weight peers. That's right — they eat less. How much less? The study found that among 12- to 14-year-olds, obese girls consumed 110 fewer calories daily than healthy-weight girls. And overweight boys between the ages of 15 and 17 consumed about 375 fewer calories a day than healthy-weight boys. via www.npr.org... Read more →

The Benefits of Middle-Age Fitness - NYTimes.com

Even if you haven't previously bothered with exercise, getting fit in middle age appears to reshape the landscape of aging. Read more... Americans are living longer, with our average life expectancy now surpassing 78 years, up from less than 74 years in 1980. But we are not necessarily living better. The incidence of a variety of chronic diseases, like diabetes, cancer and heart disease, has also been growing dramatically, particularly among people who are not yet elderly. The convergence of... Read more →

How Thomas Edison may have contributed to the obesity epidemic

via www.emaxhealth.com ETMETL? (Eat too much, exercise too little?) It makes no sense to me. Something else has significantly changed our susceptibility to weight gain. There are doubtless many factors responsible. Perhaps adding just one more causative agent was the straw that broke the camel's back. Circadian alterations are certainly plausible suspects, but are probably one cause among many. Read more →