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Untreated Depression can Thwart Weight Loss Efforts

Untreated depression can thwart weight loss efforts, suggest researchers. Being overweight increases the chances of depression 50 to 150 percent, shown by past studies and could interfere with acitivity levels. Less Depression Leads to [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Treating Women’s Depression Might Help Them Lose Weight

For many women coping with obesity and depression, new research finds that improving your mood might be the link to losing weight. The new study, which appears in the November/December issue of the journal General Hospital Psychiatry, ci [...]

Posted On : Dec, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Depression, Anxiety Linked To Weight Gain

In one of the longest studies ever for examining the impact of mental health on obesity, researchers followed over 4,363 British civil servants ages of 35 and 55 when enrolled in the mid- to late-1980s for almost two decades, finding people [...]

Posted On : Oct, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

Depression and Weight Gain

Depression, like anxiety, causes some release of cortisone from the adrenal glands. Cortisone will cause insulin resistance at the cellular level, making the delivery into the cells difficult. This in turn causes hunger and weight gain. Wh [...]

Posted On : Aug, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

Researchers find link between low birth weights and adult d...

The odds of developing depression or anxiety as an adult may be significantly increased even prior to birth, according to a study led by Ian Colman, assistant professor in the University of Alberta’s School of Public Health. The stud [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2008 | Comments : 0

'Patients to lose weight before NHS treatment'

In a New Year message to NHS staff, the Prime Minister indicates people may have to fulfil new "responsibilities" in order to establish their entitlement to care.The new conditions could be set out in a formal NHS "constituti [...]