A report, published in journal Cancer, warns that obese women may face a lifetime risk of all types of breast cancer. It does not matter if they took hormone replacement therapy or not after menopause. Fat tissue increases circulating estrogen that...
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Reducing weight is a prime importance in obesity. There are so many ways to reduce obesity such as diet control, Exercise and physical activities. Now 'diet pills' have come out with proper directions to loose weight. They might make a good impact when...
The race is on to curb the child obesity menace. Not only health care organizations, but other companies are also working hard to make the kids non-obese. Exercise is just another idea than drugs. The GECO product, designed by Ian Spring, will...
Kids in British Schools will not get whole milk now. It is to be banned in the campaign against childhood obesity in U K. Only skimmed and semi-skimmed milk will be allowed to sell in the schools.
From the month of September, this new measure will take...
Would you believe the bulky boy looking in the picture is only six-year-old? The boy, Dzhambulat Khatokhov, is 4ft 7in tall and weighs 95kg. He has been hyped as the biggest child in the world since he was three. He was born, ate three or four times a...
Children, all around U K, will go for a weight evaluation at the age of four and ten. The parents will get warning in case of overweighing kids are found. However, the critics termed it as a completely misguided and autocratic decision. They say that the...
A new study says that eating more fish can raise the risk of atrial fibrillation in some people. While previous researches have advised to eat oily fish or take, fish oil supplements to cure heart disease.
Omega-3 fatty acids usually link to recover...
About 270 people develop diabetes every day and nearly 100,000 people every year in Australia. It would cost billions of dollars in future health care in the country. This figures in the study which is to be released by the federal health minister, Tony...
Ministry of Health in New Zealand issued a fifty-seven page report on the rising obesity problem in the country. It says that more than half of the country's adults are obese in New Zealand. Further, it states that about thirty-three percent of people...
The Journal of the American Society of Nephrology is going to publish a study claiming obesity as factor of chronic kidney failure. The study is called 'Obesity and Risk of Chronic Renal Failure'.
The team of researchers evaluated body mass index (BMI)...
A two-day conference started today in Brussels, between the European Union and the United States. Obesity problem is the central issue on the conference's agenda. The major goal of this EU and US joint conference is to share experiences. They will...
Michelle Bohan, a student of Iowa State University is on the way to find a link between obesity and hormones that stimulate appetite! She is working on the project with three other ISU professors.
According to her, People should add a little bit more...
The cesarean births rate now touches 29 percent of total births in the United States. The rate of cesarean deliveries was around 5 percent of births during 1940s and it rose to about 22 percent during 1990s. The doctors said during 90s that women who...
150 scientists has gathered in the Alberta Obesity Summit. They will discuss about the brain function, parents lifestyle, mothers' diet on obesity rate of kids among Alberta population. They will discuss about the causes of obesity and possible new...
Gastric bypass surgery has become more popular than ever. The surgery has now become a trendy weight loss technique like a short cut and people don't consider the complications.
People usually reduce weight with the help of weight loss programs and...
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