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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
AP, Baltimore
Very obese people who need a kidney transplant are far less likely to get one than normal weight people, and when they do, their wait is an average of a year to 18...
made popular Dec 19 2007
Many diet pills in the market today are promising faster rates of reducing body fats or losing weight, but according to experts some of these so-called ‘magic...
made popular Nov 16 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
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 May 24 2007
If you are obese then you will have to get rid of it as soon as possible, as a new study by the scientists from the National Jewish Medical Research Center, unveils...
made popular Apr 4 2007
If you are wondering why are growing obese despite eating right and exercising right, its time to check if the culprit is your shampoo. Yes, you read it...
made popular Mar 31 2007
Obesity is the root cause of several diseases and the sooner we try to get rid of it the better it is. So, here are some simple but important tips that would definitely...
made popular Jan 24 2007
Not only adults but also overweight kids are susceptible to surgical risk. The University of Michigan Health System researchers have claimed it. Earlier, it was known...
made popular Jan 17 2007
Weight gain and higher body mass index has nothing to do with prostate cancer, but if you are obese and develop prostate cancer then your chances of dying from it may...
made popular Jan 9 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
Watch out your belly hanging out, it can be a threat to your heart. This fact has hung out of a long study of 12-years, which studied over 100,000 men and women and...
made popular Dec 29 2006
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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...
