If you are in your fifties and are slightly overweight, your chances of dying during the next ten years are 20% to 40% higher than if you were not overweight at all, according to two new studies, one carried out in South Korea and the other in the USA.
Lesbians are twice as likely as heterosexual women to be overweight or obese, which puts them at greater risk for obesity-related health problems and death, US researchers said.
The report, published in the American Journal of Public Health, is one of the first large studies to look at obesity among lesbians.
City-centric fast-paced lives have brought in their unique problems. Women are matching the steps with men at the workplace, but on the flip-side, they are gaining weight. Haima Desshpande delves into the issue and finds that a slow metabolism rate makes it more difficult for women to shed those extra pounds. As a result, they [...]
Wary of tackling Social Security or Medicare reform, members of Congress are pitching a new prescription for the nation’s coming fiscal woes: fresh fruit and exercise.
Healthy diets won’t pay the trillions of dollars in unaffordable health benefits promises. But politicians and policy advocates are arguing that heavier Americans — not just older Americans — pose [...]
The Victorian Auditor General is warning treatment costs linked to obesity rates will hit $AU1billion unless more is done to promote healthy eating.
Journalist Sarah Farnsworth says a report by the auditor general found the efforts by the state government to promote exercise and eating fresh foods failed to slow an increase in obesity.
The switch from the physical way of doing household chores to automation has been cited as factors that contribute to obesity among women, said Parliamentary Secretary to the Health Ministry Datuk Lee Kah Choon.
“At home, most of the work handled by women like washing is done by machines while at the office men usually take [...]
Mothers of babies born with some structural birth defects—including missing limbs, malformed hearts and underdeveloped spinal cords—appear more likely to be obese prior to becoming pregnant than mothers whose children are born without such defects, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Sofia. 24% of the 7- to 10-year-olds suffer from obesity, national expert on healthy eating Prof. Stefka Petrova told FOCUS News Agency in an interview. ‘Obese teenagers are 17.2%, after the teenage overweight reaches 20%, and obesity up to 5%’, she explained. ‘At school most children eat at buffets. Many mothers try to give them [...]
Why are Houstonians heftier than people in other cities? A few years ago the culprit seemed obvious. Urban sprawl, the argument went, packed on our pounds.
Several much-quoted studies found a correlation between obesity and spread-out, car-loving cities like ours. People who live in tight-packed metropolises tended to be thinner than people like us, whose suburban-style [...]
The average adult in the UK is drinking an extra day’s worth of calories every week through alcohol, according to a study by Standard Life.
The average adult is drinking enough lager, wine, cider and spirits to add almost 3,000 calories to their weekly calorific intake.
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