What are Healthy Weight Loss Tips? | Healthy Diet for Weigh Loss | Fast Weight Loss Tips and Diet
This is one of the most difficult things to do. It is just too convenient to keep postponing your weight loss plan. You must understand that no one else can or will do it for you. Get [...]
Genetic studies reveal new causes of severe obesity in childhood | Childhood Obesity and Overweight Kids
Childhood obesity is a condition where excess body fat negatively affects a child’s health or wellbeing. As methods to determine body fat directly are difficult, the diagnosis of obesity is often based on BMI. Due to the rising prevalence of [...]
Researchers have shown that depression is linked with the accumulation of visceral or belly fat, the kind of fat packed between internal organs at the waistline, which has long been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Numerous studies have shown that depression is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, but [...]
In what is believed to be the largest study of its kind in the US, researchers have found that almost 26 percent of women studied who have breast cancer have mutations in a gene important in controlling cell growth and death, and that patients with mutations in this gene – known as p53 – had [...]
Staying slim is good for the planet, according to two UK researchers who concluded that because food production has a big impact on global warming, a lean population such as that of Vietnam will eat nearly 20 per cent less food and produce fewer greenhouse gases than populations where 40 per cent of people are [...]
A new study in CMAJ reports that school-based physical activity has positive health effects on children, although it does not improve body mass index (BMI).
Increasing rates in childhood obesity has become a public health issue. Obesity in children has more than tripled in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and across Europe since 1970, [...]
On Friday the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) named 72 weight loss products found to contain undeclared pharmaceutical ingredients, include prescription drugs in doses that the agency said could lead to serious health consequences.
The latest announcement is the second update to a list they issued last December, when they named 28 products marketed for [...]
After having surgery for pancreatic cancer, obese people with a BMI of 35 or more seem to be the most likely to have poorer outcomes such as cancer that has spread to the lymph nodes, lower rates of survival and higher rates of cancer recurrence.
The study was the work of Dr Jason B Fleming, from [...]
Obese adolescents have the same risk of premature death in adulthood as people who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day, while those who are overweight have the same risk as less heavy smokers, according to research published on http://www.bmj.com today.
Smoking and obesity are two of the most important behavioural risk factors for premature death [...]
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