Children and Physical Activity
	Obesity kills over 160,000 US citizens annually. In just 25 years, the number of obese people in the US boomed from 15 % to 33 %. Oppositely, in 1980, 8% of the British women and 6% of men were entered in the obese category. By 2004, this percentage had increased to 24% for both sexes. Obesity is accompanied by two or three of the following issues: diabetes and cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, elevated levels of blood triglycer ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 10:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Your Number of Fat Cells Is the Same Since Adolescence
	Whether you look like Peter Doherty or Michael Moore, there is a fixed number of fat cells in your body since adolescence, as revealed by a new research published in the journal Nature and carried out at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. This number of adipocytes (fat cells) seems to be achieved during teen years and then remains constant in life, even if bodyweight can and does vary a lot. The Swedish researchers tested sub ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Men Skipping Sleep Turn Obese
	Lazy people should sleep more. But how can a hard working man be an obese person? A new Japanese research shows that men who sleep less than five hours a night are exposed to turning obese and to having high levels of glucose in the blood, which is the first step towards diabetes. "Lack of sleep triggers a hormone in the blood which stimulates the appetite (ghrelin, the most powerful appetite stimulant yet discovered). It ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Obesity Strikes the Boobs
	Large women may pride on their huge breasts. But size is exactly the cause of their end. A new research published in the journal of "Clinical Cancer Research" shows that overweight or obese women with breast cancer experiencea more aggressive condition and have lower survival rates. "The more obese a patient is, the more aggressive the disease. We are learning that the fat tissue may increase inflammation that ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Save Sex, Get Slim
	There's no much motivation in making a man engulf a huge steak with French fries and a large beer. Losing weight is another issue. Still, there is hope: warning overweight men that the extra fat can lead to impotence could be a crucial and effective urge to make them adopt weight-loss strategies. "Most men are oblivious to the fact that being overweight could cause erectile dysfunction and this link could be the key ... [read more >>]
	12 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

World's Fattest Man Has Lost 230 kg (507 Pounds)!
	Guinness World Records registered the Mexican Manuel Uribe as the world's fattest human: he had reached 560 kilos (1,244 pounds) in weight. Uribe, who lives in Monterrey (northern Mexico), has proudly announced Tuesday that he had dropped 230 kilograms (570 pounds), almost half his original weight, much rapidly than doctors expected. "I'm going to throw a big party," Manuel Uribe told AFP. "I'm getting ... [read more >>]
	14 February 2008, 04:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fruit Red Pigments Combat Obesity
	What's the connection between the red leaves of the fall and human obesity? Anthocyanins are red/purple/reddish pigments encountered in grape skins, blueberries, blackberries, purple corn, and other plant matters, but they give the reddened colors of the autumn leaves as well. Now, a team from Arkansas, led by Ronald L. Prior, points that anthocyanins could help in preventing obesity. Still, tests made on animals show th ... [read more >>]
	12 February 2008, 05:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Obese People May Have Different Brains!
	Obesity goes far beyond the fatty tissues. A new research published in "Cell Metabolism" shows that the brain nuclei connected to appetite are wired differently in some obese people. "The study was conducted in rats, not humans, and yet it could ultimately lead to novel obesity treatments. It is not just about drugs that modify short-term appetite, there may be drugs that stimulate development of the appropriate neural p ... [read more >>]
	06 February 2008, 06:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Irregular Exercising Makes You Even Fatter!
	Want a brake from your training program? Think twice! It could cost you more than you thought, as found by a new research from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and published in the journal "Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise." Weight gained during a rest period can be harder to get rid of when exercise is resumed later. The key of staying trim is to remain active year-round, yea ... [read more >>]
	05 February 2008, 03:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Revealed: Eminem's Not-So-Slim Anymore
	OK, I must confess I really don't like where all this Eminem drama is going. I mean, how come everybody who was famous about the same time Britney was famous is having a meltdown? It's like she set the tone, or something along these lines. The Britney virus – yes, that has a certain sound to it – we should call the CDC and ask then to name a disease after her. She could totally endorse that and be proud of it. The fact ... [read more >>]
	18 January 2008, 10:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 4 Eating Diseases
	Any person has an ideal weight depending on sex, age, and the general shape of the body. Bit food disorders can affect severely this, and also the emotional state. An adult consumes on average 14 kg (30 pounds) of food per week. We need food to ensure the function of our organs (like heart and liver) development and remaking of tissues and fight infections. The adult body needs about 2000-3000 calories daily, a woman about 2200 and a m ... [read more >>]
	11 January 2008, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

An Obese Eminem – The Next Celebrity Trainwreck?
	Eminem – the real Slim Shady, the white rapper who achieved fame and respect in addition to a lot of money and his own record label, the man with a star-studded inner circle (including famous protégés 50 Cent and Akon), the obsessive workaholic who worked day in day out to make his songs better, stronger, more haunting and illustrative of his inner demons and passions, who loved one woman throughout his life and who made no secret of his l ... [read more >>]
	11 January 2008, 09:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Obesity Is in the Brain
	Western world is experiencing an obesity pandemics, triggered by high-calorie content food, overeating and sedentariness. A new research published in "The Journal of Neuroscience" and carried on by a team led by Dr. Maribel Rios, an assistant professor of neuroscience at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, has found for the first time a chemical involved in overea ... [read more >>]
	28 December 2007, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Obesity Causes Sterility in Women
	Being overweight is more than a risk for your health: it can completely end up your lineage. Being too skinny translates too low sex drive and sterility, in both women and men, but the opposite too seems to strike on fertility level: a new Dutch research published in the Human Reproduction journal shows that an overweight woman's chances of getting pregnant gradually decrease with her weight gain. The research at the Academic Medi ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ozone Strikes Harder in Overweight/Obese People
	Being overweight or obese does not only ruin your inner systems, but also exposes you to external factors. A new research published in the journal Inhalation Toxicology connected higher body mass index (BMI) with increased sensibility to ozone. Short-term exposure to ozone provokes a temporary lung functioning drop in many people, but now it seems that body weight biases this. Ozone forms in the upper atmosphere due to the sunlight action ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 06:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Working Mothers Have Fatter Children
	This is one of the most unexpected results related to the emancipation of women: kids get increasingly fatter. A novel study made at the University of Bristol and published in Research in Public Policy from the Center for Market and Public Organization revealed that children aged 5 to 7, whose mothers had a full-time job had more chances of being overweight at 16. There was no sudden effect but children turned more obese with the age. ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 04:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Women Want to be Skinny, Men Enjoy Being Fat
	The Western world is experiencing a pandemic of obesity. Over 60 % of the American adults are overweight or obese and this is a growing tendency. How does this influence people's minds? A new Cornell research published in the journal Eating Behaviors revealed that 90 % of the 310 college female subjects would like to be thinner. Moreover, 50 % of underweight women want to be even skinnier or to remain in the unhealthy skinny ' ... [read more >>]
	22 November 2007, 04:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Smoking Mothers Will Have Obese Children
	Nicotine pumped by smoking mothers into their babies growing inside the wombs is known to affect the brain's development, causing long-term behavioral and learning impairment. A 2007 research found that nicotine in the breast milk shortens a baby's sleep time. And this new Japanese research points to another blow to the overall health: Mothers smoking in the first three moths of pregnancy will deliver children that ... [read more >>]
	01 November 2007, 05:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Obesity Linked to Cancer
	We have become more aware of the fact that obesity causes heart issues, hypertension, stroke and diabetes. Now, obesity has been linked to cancer. Obese people are six times more vulnerable to gullet (esophageal) cancer than people of average weight, as found by a recent British research. Levels of esophageal cancer have been rapidly increasing and in some countries even faster than those of any other major type of cancer. Th ... [read more >>]
	18 October 2007, 03:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Less Sleep = Fatter
	Those who wake up early ... get fat! A new study reveals that children who don't sleep enough are more prone to grow obese when adults. It appears that less sleep impedes the body from synthesizing enough amounts of a hormone that inhibits the appetite. The Australian researchers at the University of Queensland in Brisbane investigating young children from birth to 21 found those who had sleeping impairments were almost ... [read more >>]
	24 September 2007, 02:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Can Obese People Be Healthy?
	A recent research has showed that skinny people can have a lot of visceral fat, the kind that is stored inside the abdomen, and which is the most dangerous, causing diabetes and other diseases. In 2005, Katherine M. Flegal, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, made a statistical analysis of national survey data on obesity to find an amazing result: mildly overweight adults had a decreased risk of dying, compa ... [read more >>]
	15 September 2007, 04:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The World's Map of the Fat
	The issue is not all about being a big boy only. You can be big, fat and healthy, if you practice sports and an obese (inside) skinny couch potato. The question is not just "how much" but also "where". A recent research has shown that different ethnic groups tend to store fat exactly where it does induce more harm. People of Chinese and South Asian (Indian) ancestry tend to store more inner abdominal fat than people ... [read more >>]
	03 September 2007, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Female Sex Hormones and Women's Obesity
	If a babe does not match your aesthetic principles, don't blame her for that, but put it on the play between her brain and her sexual hormones. And indeed, menopause can make women fat. A new research managed to solve how hormonal change during menopause could provoke higher appetite and weight gain in aging women. Animal lab tests revealed how estrogen receptors located in the hypothalamus control food intake, energy waste and ... [read more >>]
	31 August 2007, 03:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rich People, Less Likely to Be Obese
	Quality food is more expensive, this is a fact. And quality food means a higher nutritive value (proteins, minerals and vitamins), while the cheap junk food is rich in starches and oils, caloric bombs that are deposited in abundant fatty layers. Now, a new research at the University of Washington showed a correlation between financial power and obesity level: those inhabiting chic neighborhoods with high property values are l ... [read more >>]
	31 August 2007, 02:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Oriental Food Secret of Slimness and Healthy Long Life
	The western diets are very tricky: besides the health problems they produce (like heart, liver or kidney issues, or gout), they have also the yo-yo effect: subjects regain quickly the lost weight when they stop the diet, and even gain more. Less stress, more physical exercise and a healthy life style could help. The Chinese tradition says that to be healthy and slim is very easy. It's enough for example to drink a lot of warm wate ... [read more >>]
	18 August 2007, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Do Slimming Pills Really Make You Slim?
	The only magical formula to get slim is combining diet and exercising. But in the case of the persons that are prone to obesity, drugs and natural products can help, as long as they are taken under the medical control, as most of them have secondary effects. Orlistat is commercialized under the name of Xenical, and blocks an intestinal enzyme impeding the digestion of 32 % of the fats. But this is effective only in the case o ... [read more >>]
	28 July 2007, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 12 Main Issues That Kill Americans
	The 9/11 event killed about 3,000 Americans. Since then, over 10 million Americans have died not because of age-related issues, most of them from causes that might have been prevented. 1. Heart disease killed between 2000-2005 3,119,142 Americans. Cases of death caused by heart disease are related to the obesity pandemics and metabolic syndrome that accompanies it. In 25 years the obesity rate doubled in US (reaching 33% and some say t ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Friends Can Make You Obese!
	Junk food is considered to be the cause for the fat epidemics: in just 25 years, the number of obese people boomed in the US from 15 % to 33 %. But nobody sticks fatty food in your mouth. At least not directly. However, mentally this happens quite often. And the main culprits are your obese friends. They can make you believe that the norm is being big, and this way you could be by 50 % more likely to get obese, just like they are. A ne ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 03:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

75% of the Americans Will Be Obese by 2015
	Junk food produces dangerous effects on the people living in the US. At the current weight gain tendency, Rubensian models will be the norm by 2015, with 75 % of U.S. adults being overweight and 41% obese, warned a recent Johns Hopkins University meta-analysis released on Wednesday. The research team investigated 20 researches approaching the weight and food behavior in the US, published in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews. "Obesity ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Fattest Man on the Planet: 560 kg (1,244 pounds)!
	Guinness World Records is going to register him. Mexican Manuel Uribe had reached 560 kilos (1,244 pounds) weight but has already lost 200 kilos (444 pounds) because of the Zone diet. Uribe wants to also break the record for drastic slimming. "I'm happy to be included in the Guinness World Records as the fattest man on the planet. I'm also happy that I have managed slimming 200 kg", said Uribe, now aged 42. He li ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2007, 04:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Obese Mothers Deliver Sick Children
	Smoking and drinking scare most of the pregnant women, but for most of them, pregnancy is a pretext to pig out. "Physicians need to be aggressively counseling women about the importance of starting pregnancy at a healthy weight," said Temple University obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Vani Dandolu. His team discovered that obesity, increasingly common in pregnant women, raises the risk for C-Section, enables them to breastfe ... [read more >>]
	13 July 2007, 03:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Anti-Obesity Pills Boost Suicidal Rate
	It should be better if we ate to live, but for some people, life isn’t worth living without food, and a lot of it. An American review addressing a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel found that the obesity pill boost suicidal thoughts or actions. "The 20-milligram dose of the drug, Zimulti, produced clinically significant weight loss over one year. With a low-calorie diet, the drug was shown to reduce body weight by appro ... [read more >>]
	13 June 2007, 08:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Caloric Bite, the Secret Behind Losing Weight
	Most people cannot stick to a diet, because of the hunger it causes: how the heck can you detain, when you have already lost your minds due to your empty stomach? That's why a new research shows how smart eating, not less food, is the secret for losing weight. A year-long clinical trial made by a Penn State team revealed that diets based on foods that are low in calorie density are the most effective in losing weight as they do no ... [read more >>]
	08 June 2007, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Slim Without Getting Hungry
	This is a deadly mental cocktail: while media presents you only models with perfect bodies, obesity is rampant all around you. In US 33 % of the population is obese and 70 % overweight and the numbers are growing in other western countries, too. By now, no magic solution has been found: all imply bitter sufferance, from hunger and physical exercise to surgery. But now Yaniv Linde, a 32-year-old Ph.D. student of Prof. ... [read more >>]
	07 June 2007, 15:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Can You Lose Weight While Having a Sedentary Job?
	Exercising in the gym may seem boring for many, but now experts have developed a vertical workstation which makes you burn calories while working. Mayo Clinic researchers in New York have stated that this could enable obese people to lose 30kg (75 pounds) yearly. 15 obese subjects burned an average of 191 kcal per hour using the treadmill, while those just sitting at their desk only 72 kcal. The workstation, which must be used for ... [read more >>]
	15 May 2007, 06:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Skinny Persons Can be Obese Inside
	If you think skinny means healthy, you're wrong. Many experts now believe that the internal fat around vital organs like the heart, liver or pancreas, which cannot be seen, is more dangerous than the obvious external fat that stores underneath the skin. "Being thin doesn't automatically mean you're not fat," said Dr. Jimmy Bell, a professor of molecular imaging at Imperial College, London. A team has sc ... [read more >>]
	11 May 2007, 09:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Are Girls Fatter Than Boys?
	The beautiful blond women of Sweden are facing a huge problem: they are getting increasingly fatter. Swedish researchers are puzzled by an unusual situation: Swedish little girls are more predisposed to obesity than little boys are. A recent investigation made by a team at Sweden's Uppsala University revealed that nowadays, 4-year-old girls present six times higher rates of obesity than they did 20 years ago. "This ... [read more >>]
	10 May 2007, 06:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Slimming Pill for Pets
	Having a "dog’s life" nowadays could turn out to be anyone’s dream: no work, food at will, and from time to time your owner taking you to some sex party... That's life ... But that "lifestyle" has affected our pets. "About 35 % of US dogs and cats are considered to be overweight or obese, a statistic mirrored in Australia and Europe," warned officials from Perth-based Australian Stirling b ... [read more >>]
	04 May 2007, 05:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Obese Employees Are More Costly
	A big colleague costs more not only on the matter of space, but also in injury claims. A new research shows that obese workers presented a double rate of compensation compared to their fit counterparts. The 8 years research made by a team at Duke University on a pool of 11,728 subjects revealed that the fattest employees lost 13 times more workdays connected to work-related injuries, and their medical costs for those injure ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2007, 06:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

17 % of the Whites Carry the Complete Set for Obesity
	With one more bite you have increased your waist size, while the skinny prick beside you engulfs hamburger after hamburger, ice-cream after ice-cream, and nothing... For long, a genetic component of the issue has been suspected, but now scientists come with the clearest evidence yet between genes and obesity, explaining why at the same amount of food, some people get overweight while others stay slim or even get thinner. The new re ... [read more >>]
	19 April 2007, 09:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Diets Are Not Effective
	Just some numbers: from 1980 to 2000, the percentage of obese Americans rose from 15 % to 31 % of the population. This came also accompanied by the diseases associated with overweight. Dieting is the most recommended solution against this condition. But is it effective? "You can initially lose 5 to 10 % of your weight (in the first six months) on any number of diets, but then the weight comes back," said Traci Mann ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2007, 04:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fruit Drinks Turn You Obese
	A new Australian research on schoolchildren who consume fruit juices and fruit drinks showed they are more prone to be overweight or obese than those who don't. The Deakin researchers investigated a sample of 2184 children, 4 to 12 years old from the Barwon South Western region. The team discovered that children who had drank over two glasses (500ml) of fruit juice/drink daily were more likely to be overweight or obese. "Thes ... [read more >>]
	30 March 2007, 06:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia