AFP - The Walt Disney Company on Thursday threw its weight behind a campaign championed by US First Lady Michelle Obama to push back child obesity.

Reuters - Severely obese people who undergo weight-loss surgery may have a higher-than-average risk of suicide in the years following the procedure, a new study finds.

Time.com - Celebrity fitness trainer Jackie Warner talks to TIME about her weight-loss regimen, eating healthy and her new Bravo show Thintervention

Reuters - Sitting down to eat a real meal three times a day may be a better strategy for weight loss than grazing on several smaller mini-meals, new research shows.

Time.com - Explaining the Gender Gap: Obesity Costs Women a Lot More Than Men

Reuters - Chances are slim to none that the U.S. will meet its public health goal of sharply reducing the number of obese adults by this year, according to federal health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

Reuters - Researchers who discovered stem cells and the appetite hormone leptin, who proposed that dark energy is helping the universe expand and who developed gene chips are named in the 2010 Thomson Reuters predictions to win Nobel Prizes for medicine, physics and chemistry.

Reuters - An experimental weight loss drug helped obese people lose more than 10 percent of their weight after two years in a clinical trial, but safety details were scant for the drug made by Vivus Inc, which in July was turned down by a panel of U.S. experts.

Time.com - Celebrity fitness trainer Jackie Warner talks to TIME about her weight-loss regimen, eating healthy and her new Bravo show Thintervention

Time.com - One of the most peculiar findings in obesity research is that exercise -- even if vigorous and regular -- doesn't reliably lead to weight loss.