Obese people, sometimes have a different physical quality. Their skeletal muscles usually have the nature to accumulate fat.
According to Deborah Muoio, of the Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center at Duke University Medical Center, the...
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Manuel Uribe, a 41-year-old man, was as heavy as five baby elephants do. He weighed about 1,235 pounds. Uribe got people's attention when he appeared on the Televisa television network in January. He was urging the medical experts help him to reduce...
Exercise programs at school may not help children to reduce obesity. According to Scottish researchers, the daily exercise does not have any impact on the children of same age group. If the children do more exercise in schools, they do less...
The daily-once drug, Rimonabant that reduces obesity is available in the market under the trade name Acomplia. It will be available via prescription only from today. It will cost £55.20 per month for a patient or £663 per year for a patient.
The...
Air conditioners also hold the key to make people obese. There is a concept that people burn their calories if they keep him within a definite range of temperature.
We need air conditioners in summers specially but these are responsible for making us...
Obesity and smoking habit, together, increases not only the risk of cancer and diabetes but curtails your sex power too. It may cause Erectile Dysfunction (ED) in you. Physical activities help to keep the ED away from men. ED may lead, further, to...
The treatment for prostate cancer may not work well if the patient is obese. A new research has found those obese people, who are undergoing radiotherapy treatment, may suffer the reappearance of cancer.
Dr. Sara Strom of the M.D. Anderson Cancer...
Eating too much food, doing less exercise and lack of physical activities are the two factors for obesity. However, these are not the alone factors cause the obesity.
David B. Allison, PhD, of the University of Alabama and his associates concluded the...
The journal of the American Cancer Society, 'Cancer' has published a report that revealed that obesity might cause the treatment failure after primary radiation therapy for prostate cancer.
It has said further that as the body-mass-index (BMI)...
Sleeping gives us energy to live complicated modern lifestyle. If you do not sleep sufficiently there are so many consequences that you may face. Weight-gain is one of those. The people who work in the night shift are more at the risk of...
Obesity, most of the times, is linked with fats, proteins, carbohydrates, sugar. However, the real culprit of the increasing problem of obesity is our brain. Foods do its own work in our body; we should do our own work to consume the calories.
But we...
Obese kids are at a greater risk to develop migraines. A US study hound during a research that thirty-six per cent of the children suffering from migraines were at a risk to be obese later. On the other hand they found that obesity may throw in kids to...
The permutation of obesity with its stability decides the nature of obesity. Obesity may be divided in two categories i.e. stable surgery and unstable obesity. You can maintain your weight if you are in the category of stable obesity. Unstable obesity...
Foods Are Not Cigarettes: Should Food Be Treated Like Cigarettes in the Courts? This is a new publication of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH). This publication has come out after litigation that foods also cause obesity and other...
Acomplia, an obesity drug has got approval in European Union. This Sanofi-Aventis obesity drug is still under consideration in the US.
The EU has approved Acomplia for obese patients who are at the risk of diabetes. UK will get it first from the next...
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