CBS NEWS – Good news for obese people trying to slim down. Researchers in St. Louis found just a five-percent weight loss could spark the biggest health benefits. Even a ten-pound weight loss in a person weighing 200-pounds cut diabetes and heart disease risk… and improved metabolic function. SOURCE – Cell Metabolism/MedDay/CBS
Doctors in California are investigating the link between sleep deprivation and depression. They say a gene they’ve been tracking in mice
may explain how mood disorders can be triggered by biological clock changes. SOURCE – Howard Hughes Medical Institute/MedDay/CBS
Anxious and depressed parents are more likely to have children who are *fussy* eaters… That’s according to researchers in the Netherlands. They tracked thousands of family members and found the more anxious the parents were, even during pregnancy, the more likely their pre-schoolers would be picky eaters. SOURCE – Archives of Disease in Childhood/MedDay/CBS
