Weight gain in late teens and 20s associated with higher risk of fatal prostate cancer

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Weight gain in a man’s late teens and 20s increases his risk of dying from prostate cancer later in life, research being presented at the European…

Both metabolically healthy and unhealthy forms of obesity found to increase risk of obesity-related cancers

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research to be presented at this coming week’s European Congress on Obesity in Dublin, Ireland (May 17–20) and published in the Journal of the National…

Binge eating linked to habit circuitry in the brain

Types of eating behavior and binge eating frequency. Relationship between Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire a) Restrained (ρ=-0.11, p=0.55), b) Emotional (ρ=0.32, p=0.063), and c) Externally Driven Eating (ρ=0.44, p=0.0092) with…

Overweight boys more likely to be infertile men, study finds

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new paper in the European Journal of Endocrinology, indicates that overweight boys tend to have lower testicular volume, putting them at risk for infertility in…

Obesity as a risk factor for colorectal cancer underestimated so far, says study

Weight Change Among Cases and Controls Within 12 Years Before Diagnosis/Interview Lower and upper hinges correspond to 25th and 75th quantile of weight changes, respectively; lower and upper whiskers correspond…