The two main victims of obesity in Asia are China and India. Transformed lifestyles and packaged foods are the main causes of growing obesity in these two nations.
In China almost 30% of the population is in the obese category. The pace of obesity has...
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Good news for the obese people, responsible for the $100 billion market! A new medical device is available to reduce obesity. In fact by using it, they feel completely stuffed for a long time. Medtronic Inc. is looking to invent a battery-powered gastric...
Children like artificial flavors more than the real one. When flavourists make additives for adult foods, they try to copy the nature as it is. If they create additives for kids' foods, they generally increase the sweetness.
There is much difference...
Previous studies have a common perception about the link between childhood overweight and TV viewing. Physical inactivity was claimed as the main cause while watching television.
But another study has a different view now. It appeared in the issue of...
More than 25 percent of children in schools are obese in UK. This figure is almost double of, at what percent it was 10 years back. The National Obesity Forum made a hint about this. Obese children turn as twice at the age of 50.
National Audit...
A study on obesity published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. It says that the obesity is responsible to major part of employee's medical claim. It is 2.1 percent for male and 2.8 percent for female employee.
Obesity is...
Obesity is associated with higher rates of chronic medical problems and a poorer quality of life. This result came in the survey on 9500 Americans. Among the respondents, 36% were overweight, 23% were obese, about 14% were poor, 6% heavy drinkers and...
A person inherits 30 percent to 70 percent of a tendency to be fat or thin from his or her parents. At least 70 different genes have been implicated in obesity. A new study has identified yet another gene variant that's linked to BMI, an obesity...
A study of 104 adults aged 45-64 shows that only 15 percent among them were aware of their obesity whereas 73 percent of them felt that they were only overweight and not obese. This perception was because of a wrong idea about BMI and as pointed out by...
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