Scientists in the United States have come out and stated that diets and dieting as a whole simply do not work for overall successful weight loss. Many dieters put on more weight than they lose. Dieting is unlikely to lead to long-term weight loss and may put people at an increased risk of heart disease, [...]
It is nearly 9 percent of American children who are suffering from ‘attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder’, and its only increasing trend along with the ‘attention deficit disorder and narcolepsy’ is leaving parents with no other option than to drug their children with Ritalin – a methylphenidate — with weight loss as a potential side effect. Thus, [...]
Are you among those overweight people who resorts to dieting to shed the excess fat? This article may be of interest to you, especially if you are among those who go on binge eating when you feel sad or lonely or depressed. You maybe under risk of not being able to keep the lost weight [...]
Are you worried about over eating and associated weight gain? It will not be long when you will be able to control your diet with ease and lose weight rapidly as soon as the Mandometer is available in the market. What is a mandometer? It is a computer connected to a set of scales [...]
The severely obese are the quickest growing overweight group in the United States according to a new study by researchers to be published in the journal Public Health. Severe obesity is defined as being 100lbs overweight, and according to the researchers in 2005, the proportion of severely obese Americans was 50% higher than it was [...]
Smoking is injurious to health and reduces your life expectancy by an average of ten years but the new study reports that obesity turns out to be more injurious to heath in comparison as the life expectancy of obese people is cut by 13 years. Cheap food, lack of exercise, over-indulgence and easy lifestyle creates [...]
Living with kids could be the reason why you are growing obese. A survey was conducted and was found that adults living with kids consumed 5gms of fat more than those in kids-free households. Kids demand a lot of snacks like pizzas, chocolates, burgers, chips, cakes and cookies. All these snacks are rich in calories [...]
Television could play a major role in the growing obesity among children. A study shows that most of the ads shown during the children’s program promote junk foods that tempt the kids into eating them. The University of Sydney studied the number of ads for high-fat and high-sugar foods during the popular programs for kids [...]
While on one hand, scientists are zooming in to the consequences of obesity and their rising epidemic across the globe, on the other researchers are up with arms in search for a solution to it. And eventually, here is a great breakthrough against the epidemic. Now, controlling hunger is literally in your hands! The Australian [...]
On health front, it seems that toughest challenge for Europe would be the rising tide of obesity, especially among the kids, as more and more European kids are putting on flab fast. This rising trend called, childhood obesity, is pointing to a serious threat, because it may hit the entire Europe hard, not only from [...]