The Fat Problem

Keeping excess weight away requires more than diet control. A study led by Dr. Denise E. Wilfley at Washington University in St. Louis has found that rebound weight gain is lessened when children are given social facilitation training. 150 healthy,...

For long, the international community was concerned with malnutrition and the consequent underweight population in the world, especially the underdeveloped world. However, obesity is currently emerging as a new threat to the global community. It has...

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...

Many people tend to take overweight and obesity as a strict personal matter. And soon, it may cause as much preventable disease and death as cigarette smoking. How many of them know that there is much many communities can and should do to address...

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...

Europe is fast becoming the continent of Fat people. More than half of adults in European Union nations are obese or overweight and the young are increasingly following on the same path. Fatty and sweet-based diets are quite common in Europe,..

If you are obese then you will have to get rid of it as soon as possible, as a new study by the scientists from the National Jewish Medical Research Center, unveils that obese people are at 50 per cent higher risk of developing asthma or other...

People who are severely obese as adolescents or in their early 20s can expect to have significantly shorter lives, according to research published in a Journal. Overweight in children and adolescents is generally caused by lack of physical activity,...

If obesity goes on increasing continuously in England then days are not far away when England would be known as the fattest nation on earth. England's fast growing obesity has given health experts a strong issue of concern. Expressing deep concern over...

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....