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According to a recent report published in the Lancet medical journal, obesity can cause the risk of several cancers like those of the bowel, kidney, and breast to almost double up. Risk of numerous blood cancers such as adult leukemia, multiple...
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Filed under: Food, Happy Hour Hero, Health Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Slightly chubby people live six to seven years longer than the very...
made popular Jun 24 2009
Obesity and Global Warming
Obese people are blamed of causing global warming. High rates of obesity in richer countries cause up to 1bn extra tons of greenhouse gas...
made popular May 11 2009
Climate change and obesity are the most talked about issues today. No one is left untouched by them. However, a relationship between the two is surprising. New findings...
made popular Apr 25 2009
Obesity leads to many ailments. In your opinion, what’s the best way to keep obesity in check? Pulling down the iron rod and sweating in the gym, right? After human...
made popular Apr 1 2009
The Economist introduces us to Hamlin, West Virginia.
Hamlin is one of the fattest, most unhealthiest towns in America where people seem to be content to eat...
made popular Mar 6 2009
An independent study conducted by economists at the U.S. Department of Labor reports data which show that overweight women makes less than their thinner counterparts....
made popular Feb 18 2009
AP, Washington
When it comes to favorite foods, women have a hard time saying no _ a much harder time than men, scientists have discovered.
made popular Jan 20 2009
AP, Washington
Faced with their favorite foods, women are less able than men to suppress their hunger, a discovery that may help explain the higher obesity rate for females, a new...
made popular Jan 19 2009
AP, Washington
Faced with their favorite foods, women are less able than men to suppress their hunger, a discovery that may help explain the higher obesity rate for females, a new...
made popular Jan 19 2009
AP, New York
Obesity surgery can reverse diabetes in teens, just as it does in adults, according to a small study.
made popular Dec 29 2008
AP, Chicago
An Indiana couple who topped the scales at more than 700 pounds combined have undergone weight-loss surgery _ on the same day.
made popular Dec 22 2008
To begin with, there are two basic components to lose weight: diet and exercise. You can’t take any shortcuts here; you can’t do one without the other. But...
made popular Dec 19 2008
AP, New York
Scientists may have figured out one reason some people reach for the french fries instead of an apple. It could be a gene that’s been linked to an increased risk...
made popular Dec 11 2008
AP, New York
Scientists may have figured out one reason some people reach for the french fries instead of an apple. It could be a gene that’s been linked to an increased risk...
made popular Dec 10 2008
Are those expensive, chic-looking jeans that you used to flaunt in college just lying there in your wardrobe because they don’t fit anymore. Is it getting too...
made popular Nov 26 2008
AP, Atlanta
A little less “I’m Lovin’ It” could put a significant dent in the problem of childhood obesity, suggests a new study that attempts to measure...
made popular Nov 20 2008
According to research Obesity is increasing among adult American women. About 34% of them are fighting with obesity. Researchers say there are various constant...
made popular Nov 15 2008
It is a well known fact that excess fat content in the body is the reason for putting on weight. And we also know that burning more calories than we eat is the best way...
made popular Nov 7 2008
Nearly one in four British people is at least double the healthy weight for their height. The numbers are rising faster than anywhere else in Europe, and if the trend...
made popular Nov 1 2008
AP, Paris
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis temporarily suspended sales of anti-obesity drug Acomplia in Europe, the company said Thursday, after health authorities...
made popular Oct 23 2008
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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...
made popular Aug 25 2007
It is well known that stress and a change in routine as well as worry can affect a woman’s menstrual cycle. But, at times, correcting all these may not restore...
made popular Jul 21 2007
Fat children and adolescents are a common sight nowadays. Childhood obesity is on the increase, and it has reached epidemic levels in America, U.K. and Australia. A...
made popular Jul 17 2007
These days everyone wants to be slim as they have a desire to look good and by being slim, they cut the risk of several diseases caused due to bulky figure. But...
made popular Jun 5 2007
Recent Australian study has suggested that a dad’s parenting pattern influences a kid’s weight enormously. Findings are based on the study of 5,000...
made popular May 7 2007
To lose weight, the first priority is the right frame of mind. We should get over the blame game. We try to console ourselves by blaming genes & lifestyle...
made popular Apr 24 2007
The severely obese are the quickest growing overweight group in the United States according to a new study by researchers to be published in the journal Public...
made popular Apr 14 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
Recent study explodes the stereotypical myth, which stated that in order to reduce childhood obesity kids must be subjected to right and healthy eating along with being...
made popular Feb 13 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
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
What causes narcolepsy? Though there is a common belief that a person’s body mass index, immune responses and stressful life events are responsible towards...
made popular Jan 3 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
According to the scholars of the American Cancer Society, aggressive prostate cancer may pounce upon the men who are likely to suffer from obesity than those who lose...
made popular Dec 23 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
The sugar content in fruit juice had been a matter of anxiety with a number of parents. The notion that the sugar levels in 100% fruit juice can trigger the obesity...
made popular Oct 29 2006
Are you keeping late hours and getting early in the morning, then it is time for you to hold yourself. On the basis of some studies, conducted in urban and suburban...
made popular Sep 30 2006
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