Obesity

20th May 2008
Obesity is identified as having an unusual quantity of body fat that is 20 to 30 percent more than ideal weight based on age, height and sex. It is caused by many factors mainly being family history, sedentary lifestyle, irregular diet and improper eatin...

20th December 2005
More and more scientists and supplement manufacturers are realizing that weight loss or fat burning supplements are associated with thermogenesis. They have also gathered more knowledge about the causes of obesity. In particular they have studied how bro...

01st May 2007
A children's advocacy group has demanded that the loveable green cartoon ogre "Shrek" be removed as a spokesman for an anti-obesity drive. The children's advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood believes that the overweight ogre ...

15th May 2008
There has been quite a bit of press lately about how sleep, the amount of it and the quality that you get on a regular basis, can affect more than just our moods and our alertness. Now there is gathering evidence that sleep may have a great impact on how...

26th March 2008
Obese men suffering from prostate cancer are two-and-a-half times more likely to die from it compared to normal-weight men, according to a recent study from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The study involved almost eight hundred middle-aged men...

05th July 2006
It started with a little treat between meals. Then a couple more treats between meals. And pretty soon those little treats began to add up, and that little spare tire around the middle became more like a fifth wheel. You can stop pinching yourself. I'...

22nd August 2007
Many medical professionals believed that obesity and heart disease were only related in an indirect sense. They attributed the major risk factors for heart disease (such as hypertension, high cholesterol, and even arteriosclerosis) to the degree of the ...

16th March 2006
I was previously an overweight and an obese person from my child hood. You know 40 percent of teen age boys and girls in America are overweight and obese. I was also among one of them. As I grew older to be a young man, my body weight also continued to...

13th September 2007
It is a well-known fact that eating right and exercising regularly can help you shed those ugly bulges that are protruding from every part of your body and especially stomach. Then think once more as dieting and working out are loosing its sheen and peopl...

30th May 2007
Stomach surgery is a procedure that is used to shack excess fat in your body. This surgery is done to remove the accumulation of excess fat that has stored in your body. When your food consists of high fats then automatically there is excessive collection...

30th January 2008
This chronic condition has increased rapidly over the past years has finally gained national recognition. Many more children between the ages of two years old and five years old are already on there way to becoming the next generation of obese teens, and ...

15th February 2008
Childhood obesity will be the biggest health threat in coming years, raising death rates from heart diseases, a new study shows. The Danish study has warned that if steps were not taken to reverse the problem, the children of each successive generation we...

07th June 2006
We all crave for a perfect and healthy body. Losing weight is like a dream come true for obese people. I too was flabby earlier. My bulkiness always landed me up in a thwarting state. The fear of facing embarrassment stopped me from socializing with frien...

20th May 2008
About Acomplia Acomplia is a weight loss medicine and is used to aid obese and overweight patients with risk factor of diabetes or high cholesterol to lose weight. Acomplia belongs to a type of medicine known as cannabinoid-1 receptor antagonist and wo...

24th December 2005
The Glycemic Index offers an interesting, and scientifically valid, way of assessing the types of carbohydrates we eat. It measures and rates the way these carbohydrates enter the bloodstream. And in doing so offers a way of approaching a meal so that it ...

13th November 2006
Childhood obesity is a worrying trend that needs to be addressed as urgently as possible. Overweight children not only suffer from all kinds of health problems, they are invariably the targets of bullying in school and generally occupy the lowest rung of ...

22nd May 2008
In today\'s lifestyle, it is difficult to find an individual who can claim of not having any sort of health complication or problem and unfortunately, we ourselves are responsible for this poor situation. Most of us are surviving on the junk food and impr...

05th November 2007
An over-the-counter diet pill that is aimed at adults who are suffering from obesity has at last been approved by the US FDA. But will this new pill work and will it be the solution for the thousands of obesity sufferers who find that losing weight is awf...

20th February 2007
It is not uncommon these days to see various news channels and TV programs discussing obesity as a major health risk in the developed countries. You may ask yourself, what is the hype about? Why all over sudden we have started to dedicate so much of time ...

10th June 2007
Obesity is continuing to rise at alarming rates in many western countries and there can be very little doubt that our modern lifestyle and diet is to a very large extent responsible for what has now been officially classed as an epidemic. However, there i...

16th June 2007
It is no secret that obesity in rising rapidly in many western countries and that the United States is leading the field but what is perhaps not so well known is that the number of those people classed as severely or morbidly obese is growing at twice the...

25th May 2008
The reasons of a child developing childhood obesity are numerous. This report will explain the consideration of a child's genes being responsible for "inheriting" the condition of childhood obesity. Former research efforts have suggested that adult bod...

05th April 2006
Copyright 2006 Frank Mangano Did your daily weigh-in cause your blood pressure to spike? If it did, you are not alone. More than 50 percent of Americans are overweight or obese and the numbers just keep on rising. These shocking statistics have doctor...

28th July 2006
Obesity as such is defined as a disease by the medical community. Though there are certain theories on what causes obesity there has been no concrete proof of it. Thus the theories related to the obesity are vague in nature. To move out of obesity there c...

21st September 2007
Each year, it is estimated that 8% of pregnant women in the US develop gestational diabetes, where hyperglycemia and insulin resistance develop as a result of pregnancy. The childhood obesity rate has doubled in the last two decades and it is estimated th...

14th January 2006
Copyright 2006 Tom Venuto Why Are We So Fat? That's the question asked in the cover story of a recent issue of National Geographic magazine. "Americans enjoy one of the most luxurious lifestyles on Earth: Our food is plentiful. Our work is automated...