Experts are really very much concerned about the rise in obesity, which is taking a form of pandemic. These experts believe that if obesity goes on soaring up, it may very soon knock economic output as hard as malnutrition. According to the recent WHO report: 1. Obesity has increased three times in the past two [...]
Africa, is often in news due to starvation and HIV/AIDS cases, however, this time it’s in limelight owing to the massive rise in obesity in the continent. According to an estimate, one-third of African women and a quarter of African men are overweight. Moreover, the postulation of WHO that states that in the next 10 [...]
We all know that obesity is fast growing round the world but in European countries it is marching ahead with somewhat more speed, the report coming about the country Spain clearly proves this fact. According to an estimate, one in three Spanish children is overweight, which is one of the worst records in Europe. Moreover, [...]
If you wish to keep your weight checked then eating slowly may help you in this, a new study by the University of Rhode Island has pulled out this fact. To prove it, researchers divided 30 college-aged women into two groups and both these groups were asked to eat pasta with tomato and vegetables sauce [...]
It is not just America or England that are being threatened by the rise in obesity cases but obesity is swaggering in Asian countries as well and China is the best example of this. In the recent years rise in obesity has made Chinese people more vulnerable to diseases like heart attack, diabetes, depression, cancer, [...]
Obesity is getting from worse to worst in England, a new report has undraped this fact. This report further uncovers several other startling facts, so, first let’s have a look at these facts before moving ahead. (1) Number of prescriptions written for anti-obesity drugs was just 127,000 in the year 1999 while compared to 871,000 [...]
Kidney transplant, especially if you are obese may worsen your health condition. A new study that tracked several patients has divulged this startling fact. Besides, this study evinces that survival chances of obese people after kidney transplant are titular and such people are more likely to suffer organ failure after kidney transplant. Another fact coming [...]
Watch out your belly hanging out, it can be a threat to your heart. This fact has hung out of a long study of 12-years, which studied over 100,000 men and women and found that people with bigger bellies were at 40% higher risks of suffering from hardening of the arteries, angina, ultimately leading to [...]
Experts have come out with the idea that drinking soda may play a big role in turning you fat. Yes, you got it right. Wrapping out the results of researchers’ studies, epidemiologist Sharon Fowler, from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio says, ‘What we saw was that the more diet sodas [...]
Obesity is growing with such a speed these days that some experts has started defining it as an epidemic. Actually, the whopping increase in obesity can be attributed to less physical activity and bad eating habits. But the question still remains unanswered that what should be done to keep obesity at bay. So, here are [...]