The Fat Problem

Fat children and adolescents are a common sight nowadays. Childhood obesity is on the increase, and it has reached epidemic levels in America, U.K. and Australia. A staggering number of over 15% of the children in the U.S. are considered overweight...

These days everyone wants to be slim as they have a desire to look good and by being slim, they cut the risk of several diseases caused due to bulky figure. But sometimes slimming drugs proves to be harmful if it is misused. Several reports are...

To lose weight, the first priority is the right frame of mind. We should get over the blame game. We try to console ourselves by blaming genes & lifestyle patterns. Genes do play a role in weight gain but clearly don't explain the rate at which the...

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...

When it comes to asthma, overweight girls are three times more prone to it than the girls with normal body weight. Putting forward this equation, Australian researchers believe that female sex hormones might be at fault. This conclusion is based on...

Synthetic forms of Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA), which are commonly used by people to bring down their body weight, may have side effects too, researchers presume. Actually, tests conducted on lab mice have given them a reason to think so because...

In a study that stands head to head, to the studies conducted earlier, researchers found that if somebody wants to loose one's body fat then stooping to dieting is not a wrong thing because dieting, is as efficient as exercise. To reach this...

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...

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...

Appearances are deceptive, this phrase is quite suitable to tell that how deceptive your physic could be because sometimes those who look slim may be obese and those who look obese can be slim, means healthy. Yea, you got it right. Actually,...