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 muscle has a metabolic tendency to attract fats and cause obesity. It is hard to loose weight for [...]
Obesity is rising at an alarming rate in Canada. Community health survey 2005 revealed that about twenty-six percent of children and teenagers of the age group 2-17 are overweight. Eight percent of them are obese. The researchers have found some factors responsible for the growing problem of obesity in the country. However, these factors do [...]
The researchers of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in the US have come out with a study that revealed that obesity in young age might lead to heart problems at early age. The researchers have revealed the report at the meeting of the American Society of Echocardiography. A cardiologist Dr. Tom Kimball said that the [...]
The researchers of Kings College London and University College London have concluded a study that says that the level of obesity of kids is determined in the womb of mothers. Women’s diets have the key to the health of their babies. The International Journal of Obesity has published the report. Babies’ gene has programmed to [...]
There are two groups of obese people. Eighty pounds overweight for women and hundred pounds for a man may be termed as severe obesity. This is the first kind of obesity. Those people do have a Body Mass index (BMI) of forty and more come in this category. The second group people do have the [...]
The American Medical Association, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others health institutes have established a committee for childhood obesity. There are so many suggestions on which the commitee are concentrating such as the review of terminology for children obesity. The CDC does not entitle children as obese in any case. The [...]
Dr. Alan M. Lake, chair of a task force on childhood obesity for the Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics has presented tips to prevent childhood obesity. Dr. David Katz of Yale Medical School reveals that this is happening for the first time that children are having less life expectancy than their parents [...]
Obese people are at twenty-five percent higher risk to develop psychiatric disorders. They may develop symptoms of depression, panic disorder and bipolar disorder. According to the researchers of US Group Health Center for Health Studies, the association works in both sides. The important thing is to understand its impact on health. The Archives of General [...]
A new research has revealed that normal-weight people usually eat more fiber and fruit than overweight or obese people do. The Journal of the American Dietetic Association has published the report of the researchers of the University of Texas-Austin. However, the researchers made a study on the groups of obese people and normal people. They [...]
Asthma is risky for pregnant women but the obesity in pregnant woman is more dangerous. The medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology has published the report. Dr. Israel Hendler and his team said that if pregnant woman has obesity and asthma together, the obesity poses major health threat than asthma during pregnancy. Asthmatic women go through [...]