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		<title>Downey Fact Sheet 1 &#8211; About Obesity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Printable PDF Obesity is a global epidemic and a major health concern because of its premature mortality and extensive comorbidities. Obesity is a common, complex, multifactorial disease with a high degree of heritability. Between 25 and 40% of person with obesity have a parent who is obese. There are several significant facts to bear in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Research is fundamental to understanding, preventing and treating obesity. And yet research reports are often not accepted by the public or policy-makers. One reason is that almost every adult is their own self-study of weight control. A study might have the most precise protocol, a powerful sample size and control for a variety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genetic Basis of Obesity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LHill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often one hears it stated that obesity is not a genetic disease. If by that the speaker is saying that obesity is probably not due to a single genetic change they are not quite right. There are some rare forms of obesity which are due to a single gene change. Genetic obesity syndromes. [Front Horm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain and Gut</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LHill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Is Obesity A Disease?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frequently, when persons with obesity are depicted in the media, they are headless forms (butts and guts I call the pictures) for we think of obesity in terms of body fat accumulation. But obesity really starts in the brain with multiple signals coming from the gut. Adipose tissue itself generates hormones such as leptin and [...]]]></description>
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