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Mother - the creator and nurturer: it is through her that one witnesses the miracle of life. Are you healthy enough to be one? because obesity, a price some of us pay for modern society’s opulence, has become a worrisome cause that is affecting...
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Scientists have found a protein that can promote the burning of body fat – a discovery that could lead to new ways to tackle obesity.
made popular Aug 24 2008
AP, Montgomery
Alabama, pushed to third in national obesity rankings by deep-fried Southern favorites, is cracking down on state workers who are too fat.
made popular Aug 21 2008
We all like chubby kids and go gaga over the baby weight as soon as they are born. She was 4.8 Lbs! Well we do take pride in this and for many more years to come,...
made popular Aug 14 2008
AP, Buenos Aires
Argentine senators have approved a bill declaring obesity and other eating disorders diseases covered by the nation’s public and private health care programs.
made popular Aug 14 2008
AP, Chicago
You can look great in a swimsuit and still be a heart attack waiting to happen. And you can also be overweight and otherwise healthy.
made popular Aug 11 2008
In a discovery that could help obese people and those afflicted with diabetes, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has devised a new tablet that could help people...
made popular Aug 1 2008
Children carrying the first gene that has been clearly linked to obesity find it harder than others to tell when they are full, London-based researchers say.
made popular Jul 28 2008
Matthew noted earlier the connections between a high meat, high processed food-based diet and climate change; It has also been noted that obesity is an environmental...
made popular Jul 25 2008
Research shows that fruit juices, regarded by many as a healthy way to start the day, raise the odds of a form of diabetes linked to poor diet and obesity by up to a...
made popular Jul 24 2008
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Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee lead the nation when it comes to obesity, a new government survey reports.More than 30 percent of adults in each of those states...
made popular Jul 17 2008
Obese means having much of body fat that the health is at risk. Too much body fat can lead to heart diesease, diabetes, sleep apnea, high blood pressure and arthistis.
made popular Jul 14 2008
In a study, researchers found that obese patients who had stents placed in diseased arteries had a lower incidence of adverse cardiac events than their normal-weight...
made popular Jul 3 2008
New studies are showing how important lifestyle choices are for preventing Alzheimer’s. As demonstrated by several studies, people who were severely overweight,...
made popular Jun 29 2008
According to Canadian researchers people who had surgery for getting rid of morbid obesity had a much lower risk of cancer then the obese ones who did not go through...
made popular Jun 28 2008
Earlier this week the big news in Australia was how the country is now the World’s Fattest Nation:
Australia has become the fattest nation in the world, with...
made popular Jun 25 2008
Japan wants to cut the flab. The country is taking extreme measures to restrict the waistlines to 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women. The government has...
made popular Jun 13 2008
Picture this: Its vacation time, the gullis and the building compounds look like a cricket or a soccer ground. The kids are engrossed in their games, aping their...
made popular May 19 2008
I’ve heard it all now! This morning I had just woken up and was listening to the BBC news on the radio when I heard a news piece saying that some ridiculous...
made popular May 17 2008
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People who sleep fewer than six hours a night _ or more than nine _ are more likely to be obese, according to a new government study that is one of the largest to show...
made popular May 7 2008
A recent study published in the journal Obesity adds new findings to our knowledge about alcohol, insulin resistance and abdominal obesity. Analysis of the results as...
made popular May 3 2008
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Ed Cash won songwriter of the year honors and his composition “Made to Worship” was named song of the year Saturday at BMI’s 2008 Christian Music...
made popular Apr 20 2008
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Willie Nelson received BMI’s icon award Tuesday during the organization’s 55th annual Country Awards, and several of his friends showed up to help him...
made popular Nov 6 2007
Scholars in South Korea are of the view that obesity in children is directly proportional to some kind of ear infection. But scientists in the US are quite apprehensive...
made popular Apr 18 2007
When it comes to asthma, overweight girls are three times more prone to it than the girls with normal body weight. Putting forward this equation, Australian researchers...
made popular Mar 28 2007
Mergers and acquisitions have become the order of the day. Virgin Atlantic has its eyes set on BMI which is a rival airline despite failed merger talks in 2003. The...
made popular Mar 23 2007
Synthetic forms of Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA), which are commonly used by people to bring down their body weight, may have side effects too, researchers presume. ...
made popular Feb 1 2007
In a study that stands head to head, to the studies conducted earlier, researchers found that if somebody wants to loose one’s body fat then stooping to dieting ...
made popular Jan 27 2007
Women with dense breast tissues are at higher risk of developing breast cancer than women with low-density tissue. This revelation by the Canadian study is somewhat...
made popular Jan 18 2007
The skinny model row which kicked up a fiasco during the fashion weeks in Europe recently has finally borne some fruit.
The Council of Fashion Designers of America in...
made popular Jan 8 2007
Experts have come out with the idea that drinking soda may play a big role in turning you fat. Yes, you got it right. Wrapping out the results of researchers’...
made popular Jan 5 2007
Kidney transplant, especially if you are obese may worsen your health condition. A new study that tracked several patients has divulged this startling fact. Besides,...
made popular Dec 27 2006
Appearances are deceptive, this phrase is quite suitable to tell that how deceptive your physic could be because sometimes those who look slim may be obese and those...
made popular Dec 21 2006
Believe it or not, but it is true that if you are with higher body mass index (BMI), especially, in your adulthood, you are comparatively far away from developing...
made popular Nov 29 2006
Breast reconstruction surgery may bring in various complications for obese women than the women who are not obese. A research conducted by Dr. Elisabeth K. Beahm and...
made popular Oct 18 2006
The risk of Type2 diabetes can increase if one is having a large waistline or is overweight.
But it can be more dangerous for an individual to have both the...
made popular Sep 28 2006
Diabetes can prove more fatal as compared to obesity. So, diabetics need to take care of their health in a proper way as their problem can lead to death due to acute...
made popular Sep 26 2006
Obesity is the most prevalent ‘disease’ affecting the women population to a great extent. It is the birth place of several other diseases. Therefor,...
made popular Sep 13 2006
The rising demand for radical surgery has let the doctors in a panic as a huge mass cannot be operated to reduce their stomach that can result to enforce the patients...
made popular Sep 10 2006
According to International Conference on Obesity (ICO) 2006, weight- loss surgery can be better than to remain overweight.
Australian study reported that obese...
made popular Sep 8 2006
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Jose A. “Pepe” Sosa, left, poses with the award for song of the year for “De Rodillas te Pido” with BMI President & CEO Del Bryant at the BMI Latin Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday June 12, 2008.
