Risks of Obesity Cited as #1 Health Issue in 2020

What is the health issue expected by many experts to become the number-one cause of preventable deaths worldwide in the year 2020.

Re-Thinking Farming - The Solution To Obesity

World leaders need to force an end to 'crazy' agricultural policies that fuel the global obesity epidemic by keeping unhealthy food cheap. This is what International Obesity Taskforce chairman, Philip James, told a gathering of experts in the field, that existing farm policies, particularly agricultural subsidies in the European Union and US, have been damaging people's health for decades.

Childhood Obesity - Links To Childhood Nutrition

Childhood obesity can not be attributed to a single factor, but to multiple elements including prenatal and postnatal nutrition, heredity, and physical activity. Obesity is a result of the combination of these elements. This article is focused on prenatal and postnatal nutrition only.

Facts on Green Tea and Weight Loss

In the past few years many benefits have been credited to drinking green tea. The facts point to green tea being a method for helping with weight loss.

Combat Obesity in Children with Martial Arts

Childhood obesity is a worrying trend that needs to be addressed as urgently as possible. Exercise is a great way to lose weight, but it does tend to get boring. However, there is a way to get overweight kids to exercise while empowering them with self confidence and a definite sense of achievement - through training in the Martial Arts. Learning martial arts is an excellent way to lose weight, build stamina, learn self discipline and develop a positive sense of self.

Nobody Else Can Do It For You

In reading, writing, and arithmetic kids may occasionally get away with getting someone else to do their homework. But a height adjustable pull up bar knows if you've done the work, it knows if you're eating right, getting enough rest, and it rewards kids who take responsibility for their own actions.

Bariatric / Weight loss Surgery

Bariatric (weight loss) Surgery promotes weight loss through two different methods: •The first method makes the stomach smaller and is called a restrictive procedure i.e. swedish adjustable gastric banding •The second method is by bypassing the part of the intestine that is most able to absorb calories and is called a malabsorptive procedure. •Combination of both: Roux-en-Y Gastric bypass. Laparoscopic Banding & Gastric Bypass are the popular operations.

What Is A Realistic Gastric Bypass Surgery Price?

Getting a guide to a realistic gastric bypass surgery price is not an easy task but, hopefully, this article will point you in the right direction.

Is Your Child Showing Symptoms of Obesity?

Obesity is a health condition wherein body fat is increased and unused, reaching a dangerous point in a person’s health. This happens when the energy from food intake is greater than its use. This causes the body to store energy as fat.

Assuring a Life-Saving Obesity Surgery

Obesity surgery is the last recommended treatment for the most severe cases of obesity. Yet the last treatment is still meant to be a ‘treatment’, a remedy for you to gain back the health you once lost.

Obesity – When It’s Too Much

There is a thin line between overweight and obese, yet there is a thin line to separate them. That is why it’s important to know the difference especially when health is at stake versus neglect.

Medical Breakthroughs on Obesity

Today obesity has become one of the most public health concerns especially among developing countries. If this issue is not addressed to immediately, people will be at risk of fatal diseases because of obesity. Medical science the world over has continuously in search of medical breakthroughs on obesity. This is in response to the worldwide demand to alleviate health-related risk of obesity.