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Malaysian diet is notoriously renowned for it’s high fat content. All that coconut milk that’s used in curries is probably the major cause of obesity. However, things are changing in the South East Asian Muslim country. With more people getting...
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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...
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AP, Atlanta
Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee lead the nation when it comes to obesity, a new government survey reports.
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
AP, New York
New York City’s obesity and diabetes rates are rising faster than in the rest of the country, a city health department study said.
made popular Apr 7 2008
AP, Chicago
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. And when babies sleep less, they may gain too much weight.
made popular Apr 7 2008
The world’s fattest man has shed half his body weight - losing a staggering 40 stone by going on a low-carb diet.
Manuel Uribe tipped the scales at a whopping...
made popular Apr 3 2008
Although Alzheimer’s disease appears in old age but early signs of possibility of development of dementia in the future might appear in the middle age. According to...
made popular Mar 27 2008
A big waistline in your 40s could almost triple the threat of dementia in old age, according to US research.
Obesity is a known risk factor for Alzheimer’s, but...
made popular Mar 27 2008
Overeating disrupts entire networks of genes in the body, causing not only obesity, but diabetes and heart disease, in ways that may be possible to predict, researchers...
made popular Mar 18 2008
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