J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2009 May;18(5):633-6. The relationship between obesity and fecundity. Yilmaz N, Kilic S, Kanat-Pektas M, Gulerm...

Obesity (Silver Spring). doi:10.1038/oby.2009.282 Admixture Mapping of Obesity-related Traits in African Americans: The Atherosclerosis Ris...

While a larger portion of African ancestry in African Americans is associated with higher probability of obesity, a larger portion of Africa...

ESHG 2009 is in two weeks, and there are some very interesting abstracts, including a tantalizing new study on Y-chromosome haplogroup R1b1...

There seems to be some variation in the strength of the effect, but overall the finding is that women with higher BMI (heavier for their hei...

HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology doi:10.1016/j.jchb.2008.06.006 Relationship between simple reaction time and body mass index ...

Caption for figure: 1. Lean (L - narrow shoulders, thin torso and extremities, knee and elbow joints thicker than thy and arm diameter). 2. ...

Quite often I find that the most interesting stuff in a paper isn't in its main content: Simplistically speaking linkage studies are ge...

Obes Surg. 2007 Jan;17(1):112-6. Greco-Roman and Byzantine views on obesity. Papavramidou N, Christopoulou-Aletra H. This paper ...

A new book which proposes that human health and lifespan will deteriorate because our bodies are no longer adapted in the increasingly forei...

Med Sci Monit. 2006 Dec 18;13(1):RA8-11 [Epub ahead of print] The secular trend of body weight of Greek schoolchildren in the 20(th) ce...

Waist-hip ratio should replace body mass index as indicator of mortality risk in older people (EurekAlert) Older people with high waist-hip ...

It is nice to see this article referring to "racial admixture" rather than one of the many euphemisms used to describe descent of ...

This trend is documented in the IOTF media brief on obesity in the EU (pdf) , and is especially worrying for the case of Greece ( στα Ελληνι...

A new article in Science comes to the conclusion that lean individuals differ from obese ones in the amount of time they spent standing up....

A new study from Europe in this morning's Journal of the American Medical Association shows just how powerful the effect of following he...