"The excitement of the last four years in obesity research can't be exaggerated, " says Professor O'Rahilly.
Consider two different articles in a recent issue of the influential Obesity Research.
The second Obesity Research report, on the other hand, shows how far we are from understanding, let alone treating, adult obesity.
However the study, which has been published in Obesity Research, found a wider hip circumference was not linked with better heart health in men.
Allison, has faced so many ethical questions about the objectivity of his obesity research that ABC News did an investigative story on him in 2011.
"We know that excess body weight adversely affects every organ system in the body, " says Dr. Gary Foster, director of Temple University's Center for Obesity Research and Education in Philadelphia.
"You can't just try to change someone's behavior necessarily without trying to change their environment, " said Dr. Michael Goran, director of the University of Southern California's Childhood Obesity Research Center.
Pi-Sunyer is one of the biggest names in obesity drug research.
In a bit of good news, the study confirmed earlier research that the childhood obesity rate appears to be leveling off after several decades of increases.
In remarks at an elementary school near Jackson, the first lady cited new research showing that childhood obesity rates among elementary school pupils in the state had declined by 13.3 percent between 2005 and 2011.
"It is a tour de force and offers a new and potentially exciting opening for developments of new anti-obesity drugs -- something which is badly needed, " says Dr. George Bray, chief of the Division of Clinical Obesity and Metabolism at Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University.
But when it comes to the much-touted long-term benefits of breastfeeding, such as protection against obesity, diabetes or allergy, the research is less convincing.
His research examines food marketing and obesity ( www.pierrechandon.com).
As Michelle Trudeau reports the research comes at a time when the obesity rate among children has more than doubled.
Obesity treatment "is high priority" among drug research, said Dr. Mark Gold, chair of psychiatry at University of Florida who focuses on addiction and eating habits.
If government can find a way to drive some of this bias against obese people out of the scientific agenda, we have real potential to see solutions, building on promising new research that looks differently at the physiology of obesity and chemical and environmental triggers previously unexplored.
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James Vaupel, director of Duke University's Population Research Institute, is sceptical of the argument that obesity may reverse future progress in life expectancy.
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Obesity is a risk factor in heart disease, leading past research to examine whether weight gain might cancel out some of the benefits of quitting smoking.
"We might not have any magic bullet, " for obesity said Dr. Gene-Jack Wang, chair of medical research at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Obesity has more factors than just eating too much, according to research.
Researchers at the National Research Council estimated that America's high rates of obesity accounted for between one-fifth and one-third of its lagging life expectancy relative to other rich countries.
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Emerging basic research suggests that imbalances in good gut bacteria may be involved in obesity, diabetes and other ills.
But there have been no authoritative research showing whether consuming sugary drinks is directly linked to a rise in obesity.
The research team also looked at a slew of lifestyle factors that might influence obesity risk (like TV-watching) so they could effectively remove these from the equation.
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In a 2008 case report, a man who was receiving experimental brain stimulation for obesity also showed improvement in his memory, which prompted excitement and calls for future research.
There's a lot of new research that shows we're -- we have very high rates of obesity.
Dr Dongsheng Cai, who led the research, said that that the pathway could possibly be used in anti-obesity drugs.
So it was no surprise to see a raft of research papers in the Lancet discussing the need for global action to tackle the obesity pandemic.
Finally, make sure that you are getting at least seven to eight hours of sleep, as there has been considerable research in the last five years on the effect of getting too little sleep on obesity.
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Research shows that following the Ten Steps increases exclusive breastfeeding, and this helps to reduce obesity and diabetes in the population.
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