Jan

28

Many obese people deny they are fat

January 28, 2008 | Comments Off

More than half of Australian adults are either overweight or obese, but are increasingly kidding themselves that they are not fat, a new government report shows. According to a new analysis of the 2004-05 National Health Survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), 7.4 million adults are either overweight or obese, a 2.8 million […]

Jan

9

Obesity fuelling liver disease

January 9, 2008 | Comments Off

Obesity has now overtaken alcohol as the number one cause of liver disease. In some cases the damage is so severe it means patients require a liver transplant. Doctors say the rise in obesity means the problem will get even worse in years to come.

Dec

29

Many Parents Blind To Kids Obesity

December 29, 2007 | Comments Off

A startling number of parents may be in denial about their youngsters’ weight. A survey found that many Americans whose children are obese do not see them that way. That is worrisome, researchers say, because obese children run the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol problems and other ailments more commonly found in adults. […]

Nov

21

Fatty diet disrupts body clock

November 21, 2007 | Comments Off

Eating just a few meals loaded with fat - think holiday food - could be enough to throw off the body’s internal clock, starting a vicious cycle that could lead to obesity and diabetes, US researchers said on Tuesday. They found mice fed high-fat foods showed marked changes in their diet and sleep patterns, sleeping […]

Nov

6

Early Weight Gain Can Mean Heart Trouble Later in Life

November 6, 2007 | Comments Off

Parents don’t let your children grow up to be fat — or even fat when they start grade school. Children reach a low point in their body mass index (BMI, a ratio of weight to height) early in life, before the BMI rises in concert with childhood, adolescence and adulthood. But the earlier a child […]

Nov

6

Lack Of Sleep May Lead To Fatter Kids

November 6, 2007 | Comments Off

Now there’s another reason to get children to bed early: More sleep might lower their risk of becoming obese. Researchers have found that every additional hour per night a third-grader spends sleeping reduces the child’s chances of being obese in sixth grade by 40 percent. Third graders are usually around 8 or 9 years old; […]

Nov

2

Obesity Nears Smoking As Cancer Causer

November 2, 2007 | Comments Off

A major report cites obesity as a cancer risk factor that one co-author says causes nearly as many cancer deaths as smoking. Another co-author calls the obesity-cancer link the report demonstrates "remarkable." The report, "Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective" is an "eye-opener," Early Show medical correspondent Dr. Emily […]

Oct

31

Obesity ‘becoming a global problem’

October 31, 2007 | Comments Off

People are getting fatter in all parts of the world, with the possible exception of east Asia, doctors found in a one-day global snapshot of obesity. Overall, 24 per cent of men and 27 per cent of women seeing their doctors that day were obese, and another 30 per cent of men and 40 per […]

Oct

2

Staying Motivated to Exercise

October 2, 2007 | Comments Off

Exercise is always a do-it-yourself venture. No other person and no machine can do it for you. Hence, it is important to have those motivating factors so that a person who is into exercise in order to lose weight will hang about.

Sep

14

Being Overweight is Hard on the Heart

September 14, 2007 | Comments Off

A new study involving more than 300,000 people finds that being overweight independently increases a person’s risk of coronary disease. In other words, even if doctors could get an overweight person’s blood pressure and cholesterol down to normal, that patient would still be at higher heart risk. The Dutch analysis involved data from 21 previous […]

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