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October 9, 2009
Common Mental Disorders May Be Linked To An Increased Risk Of Obesity
People with common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety are at increased risk of becoming obese, according to new research published on BMJ.com today. The findings also show that individuals with chronic or repeat episodes of common mental disorders are particularly at risk, say the authors.
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July 1, 2009
Do Antidepressant Drugs Increase Risk of Obesity? (Psych Central)
Previous research has shown an association between people who have had clinical depression and obesity. But does having a major clinical depressive episode - or the drugs used to treat depression, called antidepressants - increase the risk of becoming obese? Researchers looked at data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), a longitudinal study over [...]
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June 11, 2009
Television tunnel vision
This week's Nature has a feature article on how visual motion media impacts on young children. It's an interesting article because it focuses largely on television.This is notable for two reasons: the first is that numerous research studies have found that, as a generalisation, watching television negatively impacts on children's concentration, increases the risk of obesity and interferes with pl
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