Archive for the 'Obesity' Category

Can obesity surgery ‘cure’ diabetes?

We’ve heard before that obesity is a main cause for the development and onset of diabetes. But, could obesity surgery be the cause for many diabetes cases? Seems logical, although curing obesity with surgery should be a final resort in my humble opinion. Whatever happened to working tough to los…

Can you catch obesity?

Is it possible to catch obesity like you’d catch a cold, the flu, or pink eye? Yes, say researchers who believe obesity is due, in part, to a viral infection.

Adenovirus Ad36 — one in a family of about 50 viruses that cause colds, respiratory infections, gastrointestinal problems, and eye inflam…

Kids as young as 3 are sofa potatoes

Can you suppose a toddler spending his or her entire day eating potato chips on the sofa? Heck, can you even assume a toddler sitting still for five minutes? Yeah, me neither — kids are so full of energy, they’re literally exhausting to watch.

But according to this essay from the Daily Mail, kid…

Parents are not realizing how fat their kids are

As Adams wrote that morning, it seems that a large number of American parents are in denial about how large their kids are. We’re not talking tall, but overweight and obese. Why is that?

Because humans have a tendency to see things how they’d like to see them — which is fairly different than…

Do overweight citizens shout in sick more often?

A recent study found that public who are overweight or obese use more sick days than those with a normal BMI, up to five additional days depending on job, gender, and BMI classification.

According to the study, women, in general, take more sick days than men, even at the higher end of the BMI…

Obesity brings down immune response

A study out of Boston University that week concluded that obese humans have a weakened immune response and, as such, find it much more difficult to fight off infections.

To those who have researched a healthy lifestyle that leads to optimum weight levels, that is no surprise. Obesity can stress t…

Solutions to Childhood Obesity

To a degree, lets face it they don’t spend that kind of money for no reason. Is it the more sedate lifestyle that technology has bought about? certain, its a contributing factor, but its not the be all and end all. No for my intellect the reason our kids are getting fatter is considering of shiftles…

Are viruses to blame for obesity?

The obesity rate in the United States is absolutely staggering. You can’t help but wonder how the hell that is even happening. I mean, let’s face it, most folks don’t want to be obese. So, when you take personal desire into detail, combine that with the public ridicule fat society unfortunately face…

Expansion seen in childhood obesity program

This daylight, I alluded to the city of Pittsburgh getting more involved with childhood obesity — something every American city should really do.

In some local school districts I’ve visited, sweet and fast food treats have been shoved aside for healthy rewards (many of them are not foods) for th…

Pittsburgh lauches program to curb childhood obesity

Childhood obesity, after years of being shoved under the table by many school leaders, parents and authorities, is finally seeing some attention as some kids become ever-fatter.

In Pittsburgh, the ‘We Can!’ project (courtesy of the National Institutes of Health) is launching to raise awareness an…

Last stop for the obesity train?

All I’ve been hearing the final few years is “obesity rates are rising.” Wherever you turn, there is news about America’s weight problem, obesity’s connection with poor nutrition and lack of exercise, and the frightening fact obesity is infiltrating the youngest generation. Well, now there’s more pr…

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