The Fat Problem

There was a time when kids would get excited when they got their first bicycle as a gift. Those were the days when kids pedaled around the block with their friends happily while their parents watched proudly. These days neither the parents nor the kids...

The warnings are real because the dangers are real. Yes! I am talking about most talk able issue related to fitness. It is none other than but one and only- obesity. Obese mums beware! The new Australian research stated that Women who are overweight or...

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...

Fight against childhood obesity is privileged to have another boost as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation plans to spend more than $500 million over the next five years. Through this massive investment, the foundation intends to help children and...

Not televisions or videogames but the way of transportation is the main culprit behind childhood obesity. The profounder of this belief is a Stuart Biddle, professor of exercise and sport psychology at Loughborough University. Biddle has come up...

Let kids play outside to fight obesity, president George Bush strongly asserted while he was meeting with business leaders, working to encourage exercise and healthy food choices through advertising. Where this suggestion by Mr. Bush seems quite...

If you think that only overweight adults are at higher risk of heart diseases then I will have to say that you are mistaken since a new study has come up with shocking findings according to which many overweight girls between ages 9 to 11 have also been..

Guess what's bothering people of the U.S. the most these days. Yes, you're right, it's obesity. The same fact has been dug out by a nationwide telephone survey. Here are few but important issues that came out smeared with people's concern. 27...

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..

From a new study, a fact has crept out that obese face lots of problems in balancing their bodies and also walk with slower pace. In addition, overweight brings bad implications to their feet bones and joints as well. During study, another fact that came.