obese
Jun 29 2009, Bharat

While most consumer gadgets are blemished for being illness provoking, researchers from the University of Southern California have thought of a way to help cellphones rise up from the taint and help the obese shed weight. Hooking up obese kids to a...

Related Stories
Most Recent Most Popular Most Commented
(1)
Shaweta Chauhan, Shimla
Dr Kerry Kirwan, Dr Steve Maggs and Dr James Meredith of University of Warwick have created a car, named “WorldFirst Formula 3 racing car”. The Green car The...
made popular May 7 2009
(0)
AP, London
Being obese can take years off your life and in some cases may be as dangerous as smoking, a new study says. British researchers at the University of Oxford analyzed 57...
made popular Mar 18 2009
(0)
AP, London
Britain’s renowned Fat Duck restaurant has reopened more than two weeks after it closed because of a mysterious outbreak of sickness that left diners reporting...
made popular Mar 12 2009
(0)
AP, Bray
It’s a culinary mystery worthy of Agatha Christie.
made popular Mar 6 2009
(0)
Aneez, Mumbai
Don’t get me wrong but that’s what I believe Jennifer Love Hewitt meant when she came up with a bit of ’strange’ advice for Jessica Simpson. She...
made popular Feb 17 2009
(0)
AP, Concord
It’s not just fast food restaurants that have Supersized the way Americans eat _ cookbooks share the blame.
made popular Feb 16 2009
(0)
Aneez, Mumbai
Truth hurts, especially when you happen to be an overweight celebrity and are targeted by everyone, including the President. Ask Jessica Simpson and she’ll yell...
made popular Feb 4 2009
(0)
Juergen Horn, New york
CAKE! Feed that cake cat. It’s fat but needs to get stuffed for megaburp! Game Link: Fat Cat - Magic Fire Powder Related posts:Cat Tank Play House Also comes as...
made popular Dec 9 2008
(0)
AP, Chicago
Older people who are depressed are much more likely to develop a dangerous type of internal body fat _ the kind that can lead to diabetes and heart disease _ than...
made popular Dec 1 2008
(3)
Tina Peden, Portsmouth
Yesterday, I was riding the bus out to the mall when it made a routine stop. A woman with a child in a stroller came out of a store. The child was very young. The...
made popular Nov 20 2008
(0)
AP, London
The English city of Manchester has come up with a simple formula it hopes will help keep its citizens trim: eat right, get stuff. Exercise, get more stuff.
made popular Nov 11 2008
(0)
AP, New York
Burger King Corp. said Thursday it is now cooking with trans fat free cooking oils at all of its restaurants nationwide.
made popular Oct 2 2008
(0)
AP, Tokyo
Dolphins at a Japanese marine park are going on a low fat diet after developing pot bellies and failing to look sharp in their aquatic performances.
made popular Sep 30 2008
(0)
AP, Mexico City
Abraham Leon was getting a checkup when he found out he had high blood pressure and was at risk of developing diabetes.
made popular Sep 28 2008
(2)
Nikita Nain, Mumbai
Do you want to build your muscles, and look great? Are you confused with all the advice your friends and family give you? If the answer is yes, then this article is...
made popular Sep 13 2008
(1)
Arjun, NCR
We all want to live in a Flat world. No, I am not talking about Nandan Nielkani’s open trade opportunities for everybody. I am talking about the growing waist and...
made popular Sep 13 2008
(0)
Shewli, Hyderabad
Being underweight or overweight is a problem for all age groups, but overweight children are most likely to suffer from cardiac problems in their teens and thereafter...
made popular Sep 8 2008
(0)
Arpita Mukherjee, Kolkata
For long, the international community was concerned with malnutrition and the consequent underweight population in the world, especially the underdeveloped world....
made popular Sep 7 2008
(0)
AP, Trenton
In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat, and a handful have needed liver...
made popular Sep 7 2008
(0)
Mary, Raleigh
Often, a visit to the doctor’s office starts with a weigh-in. But is a person’s weight really a reliable indicator of overall health?
made popular Aug 21 2008
All Stories
Most Recent Most Popular Most Commented
(0)
AP, Toronto
Canada’s largest airline is trying to figure out which obese and disabled passengers will be eligible for additional seats at no charge after the country’s...
made popular Nov 24 2008
(3)
Tina Peden, Portsmouth
Yesterday, I was riding the bus out to the mall when it made a routine stop. A woman with a child in a stroller came out of a store. The child was very young. The...
made popular Nov 20 2008
(0)
AP, Toronto
An obese inmate who goes by the nickname “Big Mike” has been granted early parole because a Canadian prison could not accommodate his 430-pound frame.
made popular Nov 13 2008
(0)
AP, New Orleans
Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used...
made popular Nov 11 2008
(26)
Deepa, mumbai
The world’s most obese man is getting hitched. Manuel Uribe says he will wed long-time girlfriend Claudia Solis on October 26 in Monterrey, Mexico. The two will...
made popular Oct 3 2008
(1)
Arjun, NCR
We all want to live in a Flat world. No, I am not talking about Nandan Nielkani’s open trade opportunities for everybody. I am talking about the growing waist and...
made popular Sep 13 2008
(0)
Vikas, solan
Here’s yet another reason why you should cut the flab -obesity could give you cancer. A new research, published in the British Journal of Cancer, has found that...
made popular Sep 9 2008
(2)
A new U.S study states that obese people are at greater risk of developing severe asthma than people who are slim. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led...
made popular Sep 9 2008
(0)
AP, Edinburg
A nearly half-ton Texas woman charged in the death of her toddler nephew couldn’t have beaten the boy to death because of her limited movement from weight...
made popular Aug 27 2008
(0)
AP, Edinburg
Prosecutors are trying to decide how to jail and bring to court a nearly half-ton, bedridden woman accused of killing her 2-year-old nephew.
made popular Aug 22 2008
(4)
Reshmi, Bangalore
It sounds like a miracle medicine...simply too good to be true!
made popular Aug 14 2008
(2)
Vikas, solan
A new study has shown that more Internet time, more alcohol consumption, and less sleep are contributing to weight gain in teenage girls.
made popular Jul 18 2008
(0)
Vikas, solan
With waistlines increasing rapidly around the world, a group of researchers at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine predict that by 2030,...
made popular Jul 14 2008
(5)
HemRaj Singh, New Delhi
If you are hefty and are afraid of being infertile, as the studies conducted tend to link obesity and infertility, it’s time you relaxed. Many among us swear by...
made popular Jun 20 2008
(7)
Sharmila Chakravorty, Northampton
Too much television viewing makes you not only dull but also obese, according to a Canadian study. The study, `Sedentary Behaviour and Obesity’, has found a...
made popular Jun 19 2008
(0)
AP, Chicago
The percentage of American children who are overweight or obese appears to have leveled off after a 25-year increase, according to new figures that offer a glimmer of...
made popular May 27 2008
(0)
AP, Chicago
The percentage of American children who are overweight or obese appears to have leveled off after a 25-year increase, according to new figures that offer a glimmer of...
made popular May 27 2008
(0)
AP, Chicago
The percentage of American children who are overweight or obese appears to have leveled off after a 25-year increase, according to new figures that offer a glimmer of...
made popular May 27 2008
(0)
Deepa, mumbai
Does it matter what your wife weighs? It does! Okay, let’s say that many a times this guy’s wife’s weight may have be an embarrassment for him and at...
made popular May 23 2008
Images
Tianjin:

An obese patient checks his weight at the start of a day in the Aimin Fat Reduction Hospital in Tianjin, China, Friday, July 25, 2008. The hospital uses a combination of diet, exercise and traditional Chinese acupuncture to treat obesity that is on the...