Overweight Children

Overweight children and childood obesity are reaching epidemic proportions in the Western World, particularly in the USA where one third of all children and teens are estimated to be overweight. This article discusses the problem and what parents can do to help their children's future.

Obesity is a Trojan Horse

Obesity is the mother of all diseases. While it is simple to follow the guidelines to restore good health, it is difficult to be consistent. Total discipline in food habits and control over the taste buds are the key words to good health. This article deals with the importance to have good nutrition and good exercise to overcome obesity.

Exercise After Weight Loss Surgery

While weight loss surgery does provide rapid weight loss, don't think of it as an easy way out to avoid exercise and diet.

Childhood Obesity

Childhood obesity, what was once shocking and disturbing has now become a fact of life, as adult obesity increased childhood obesity is growing and rapidly increasing

How to Prevent Obesity

Preventing obesity starts with a good understanding of what exactly causes it in the first place. That understanding will go a long way in helping to prevent obesity in children.

Obesity Is a Genetic Predisposition

Recently, a study conducted at the Boston University Medical School concluded that a very small genetic change in DNA area is the leading cause of obese propensity. The incriminated gene, its name is INSIG2, plays a strategic role in fat production and makes somebody more prone to be obese by simply changing its normal G-status into C-status.

The Epidemic of Childhood Obesity

Childhood obesity is quickly becoming an epidemic! What's most tragic is that it's completely preventable.

Similarities Between The Soft Drink And Tobacco Industries

The soft drink industry seems to be taking its marketing and public relations ideas from the tobacco industry in regards to both promotion and defense of their products.

Obesity: A Disease With Deadly Complication

According to statistics presented at the 14th European Congress on Obesity, more than 300 million people worldwide are affected by obesity. Studies evaluate that obesity rates in Europe have risen 15 percent in the past ten years, while in Japan it has doubled since 1982.

Obesity

obesity and excessive weight are the two different things. obesity can be caused due to hormonal changes or imbalance but gives rise to various deadly diseases like heart problems, arthritis etc.

Can You Be Fat & Healthy?

Even though current culture looks to a tiny waist as an indicator to good health, research is showing it is possible to be healthy even with those extra pounds.

Childhood Obesity and the FTC

Recently the Federal Trade Commission had asked the US Congress for an increase in their annual budget of 13 million. Although you would not expect the agency to be involved in the issue of Childhood Obesity