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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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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
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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
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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
It can be a bit alarming for the normal Canadian to know that it has been established by research that obesity and inactivity stand almost on the same scale between...
made popular Apr 22 2008
To be an owner of an attractive figure not only adds confidence in one’s personality but also gives him every reason to cheer in life. There are many ways of...
made popular Apr 17 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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