Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. being treated in Mayo Clinic

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Being cured of HIV is 'wonderful,' US man says

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Fewer Medicare Patients Being 'Admitted' to Hospitals: Study

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Being Obese May Make Job Search Tougher

HealthDay – 45 mins ago THURSDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- It was the small square photo clipped to an applicant's resume that most influenced whether a woman would be hired. But there was a hidden catch: The pictures showed the same six women both before and after weight-loss surgery.

The end result: The "employers" in the study rated these six women more poorly when their photos were taken when they were obese.

For the research, published recently in the International Journal of Obesity, the 95 raters actually were New Zealand undergraduate students who weren't aware that weight bias was the real focus of the study.

"Clearly, these were not actual employers," said study co-author Janet Latner, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii. "But they are people who will enter the workforce, and the underlying prejudice that they're displaying could ultimately affect their decisions regarding future colleagues."

The study participants -- mostly female -- received information packages on "candidates" to evaluate for a potential managerial position. The bogus resumes were equivalent as far as skills, experience and education.

The women shown in the photos had been located on websites. To rule out other appearance-based biases, the six women were of similar ages, from 29 to 32, and of European descent.

Before surgery, the women's body-mass index (BMI) -- a measure of body fat based on weight and height -- ranged from 38 to 41. A BMI of 30 or more is considered obese. After surgery, the women's BMI ranged from 22 to 24, considered normal weight.

The student "employers" rated candidates for starting salary, leadership potential and likelihood of being hired.

Based on the ratings, larger women had less chance of being hired. And if they managed to pass that hurdle, they still would have faced lower salaries and limited career progression.

The more attractive the raters considered themselves, the stronger the weight bias they displayed, researchers found. Having personality traits such as authoritarianism also was associated with being more biased.

Males weren't evaluated in the study, which leaves open the question of whether obese men face a similar bias.

"Men certainly face discrimination as well, but the research shows that they have to get to a higher weight in order for their weight to be consequential," said Michaela Null, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., whose research focus is fat studies.

Such hiring bias isn't just a hypothetical. In 2011, a Texas hospital instituted a policy that job candidates had to have a BMI of less than 35, but the hospital withdrew the policy in April.

"We sent a letter to

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Breast Cancer, Being Overweight Increases The Risk

Vitamin D And Breast Cancer Is there a link between Vitamin D and breast cancer? Does Vitamin D help to reduce your risk of breast cancer? There has been a lot of talk about the role of Vitamin D and cancer prevention, but there has actually been substantial evidence in recent years to show that… By: Meschino Health in  Health and Fitness  >  Womens Issues   Feb 22, 2012   0   Likes: 0

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Some Folks Just Can't Help Being Nice, Study Suggests

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Being Ignored Feels Just as Bad Online

HealthDay – 1 hr 34 mins ago MONDAY, April 9 (HealthDay News) -- Being ignored feels just as bad when it happens online as when it happens in person.

That's the conclusion of a new study that looked at the emotional impact of feeling excluded using social media, such as Facebook, compared to face to face.

"If you've ever felt bad about being ignored on Facebook, you're not alone," study author Joshua Smyth, a professor of biobehavioral health and medicine at Penn State University, said in a university news release. "Facebook -- with its approximately 800 million users -- serves as a place to forge social connections; however, it is often a way to exclude others without the awkwardness of a face-to-face interaction."

Smyth and colleagues from Misericordia University used two studies to examine how people perceived exclusion in person and in online chat rooms.

In the first study, 275 college students were asked to predict how they would feel about being ignored during a conversation. The students expected to feel somewhat distressed and thought the exclusion would take a toll on their self-esteem regardless of whether it took place online or face-to-face.

In the second study, the researchers staged an introductory conversation involving 77 college students who thought they were involved in a study on first impressions. Half of the students were excluded in an online chat room. The others were ignored in person by research assistants posing as fellow study participants.

Participants in both scenarios felt equally stung.

"Contrary to our expectation, the students' responses to rejection were not primarily characterized by severe distress, but rather characterized by numbness and distancing or withdrawal," Smyth said.

The researchers noted that the students expected the exclusion to feel worse than it actually did, and that students also thought they were ignored because of a problem with others, not themselves.

The findings were published in a recent online issue of Computers in Human Behavior.

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