Science news articles about 'rapid weight gain'

... ' growth patterns influenced blood pressure into adulthood. The researchers found that weight gain occurring between 0 and 5 months and 1 year, 9 months to 5 years made the most ...

... have shown that being leptin resistant can lead to rapid weight gain on a high-fat, high-calorie diet ... were no differences in food intake, body weight, and body fat between rats on the high-fructose and ...

... as well as Children's Hospital Boston, has found that rapid weight gain during the first six months ... , together reflect body fatness better than weight alone. In this study, Dr. Taveras and colleagues ...

... adulthood is a time of decreasing physical activity and rapid weight gain, video games may provide a more active form of leisure than traditional TV for this age group." Tate and ...

... Lee Kaplan, MD, PhD, director of the MGH Weight Center, who led the study. "The next step will ... device in rats genetically prone to rapid weight gain but lean since they had been brought up on a low- ...

... most effective schizophrenia drugs also cause rapid weight gain – a risk factor for type 2 ... birth, such as prenatal famine and low birth weight, have both been shown to increase the risk of diabetes ...

Drugs for severe mental disorders can also bring on troubling metabolic changes