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In a sudden display of urgency and anxiety the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity has announced that it is targeting zero deforestation in the ASEAN region by 2020. It has correlated the recent food crisis to the loss of biodiversity...
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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
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
AP, Atlanta
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
AP, Atlanta
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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Tuberculosis (TB), as one of the major causes of deaths in the world, is again taking a new wave of attacking the Asia-Pacific region. The Philippines is indeed alarmed...
made popular Mar 23 2008
Sociologists and Philanthropists need not worry about the population explosion any more; the tobacco epidemic is doing its job. If the governments across the globe do...
made popular Feb 8 2008
AP, New York
The World Health Organization warned in a new report Thursday that the “tobacco epidemic” is growing and could claim 1 billion lives by the end of the...
made popular Feb 8 2008
AP, Atlanta
A few decades ago, people probably would have said kids like Ryan Massey and Eddie Scheuplein were just odd. Or difficult.Both boys are bright. But Ryan, 11, is hyper...
made popular Nov 4 2007
AP, San Juan
Dengue fever is spreading across Latin America and the Caribbean in one of the worst outbreaks in decades, causing agonizing joint pain for hundreds of thousands of...
made popular Sep 29 2007
As per the WHO new diseases are now emerging at the “historically unprecedented” rate of one per year.This means that infectious dieses are spreading faster...
made popular Aug 24 2007
With more than 2.1 billion air passengers traveling each year, the risk of infectious diseases such as AIDS, SARS and Ebola fever is high and new diseases are emerging...
made popular Aug 23 2007
In all affected countries, the AIDS epidemic is bringing additional pressure to bear on the health sector. As the epidemic matures, the demand for care for those living...
made popular Jun 20 2007
Alzheimer’s is neurodegenerative disease and can be characterized by progressive mental deterioration together with declining activities of day to day living and...
made popular Jun 11 2007
No matter how healthy diet you take when you are pregnant...how sturdy an excercse routine you have recently resorted to...how much good quality medicines you are...
made popular Jan 20 2007
Measles deaths have noticed a sudden fall of 60 percent in the last six years, which is being looked upon as a major victory for global health. First, a look back at...
made popular Jan 19 2007
It is enough now and there would be no more deaths due to deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. This is the resolve, which Indonesia has entered with in the year of 2007. ...
made popular Jan 2 2007
Every year about 100 million people die of epidemics like dengue and malaria. Malaria alone kills at least one million people every year. Most of us know that...
made popular Dec 17 2006
No doubt, U.S is unconquerable if seen from war point of view but its condition may turn quite vulnerable if seen through the eyes of a pandemic, a new report from the...
made popular Dec 13 2006
According to a new report by World Bank, global efforts to fight bird-flu would require about $US1.2-$US1.5 billion extra funding in the next two to three years. This...
made popular Dec 4 2006
It seems world community is really very much concerned about stopping the spread of obesity ,which is engulfing the world like an epidemic. This time giving a major...
made popular Nov 5 2006
Southern Africa has become the nucleus of the HIV positive patients because there are 12 million HIV positive people alone in Southern Africa and according to an...
made popular Nov 2 2006
Obesity has emerged as an epidemic in US and now Bush administration is also warming up to seek out a solution to this problem and for that very soon Bush...
made popular Oct 27 2006
The terror of dengue fever is curdling the blood of the people in India with Capital Delhi and neighboring states emerging as worst hit. Within a few days, dengue has...
made popular Oct 4 2006
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Young and old enjoy Xerdancing at CNN’s Fit Nation Tour. (Photo: Business Wire)
