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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... |
26 July 2007
03:46 GMT |
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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... |
23 July 2007
14:06 GMT |
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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... |
21 July 2007
04:32 GMT |
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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 t... |
13 July 2007
03:57 GMT |
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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 cli... |
13 June 2007
08:16 GMT |
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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... |
8 June 2007
16:31 GMT |
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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, f... |
7 June 2007
15:31 GMT |
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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 ho... |
15 May 2007
06:27 GMT |
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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... |
11 May 2007
09:07 GMT |
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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 th... |
10 May 2007
06:42 GMT |
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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 mir... |
4 May 2007
05:41 GMT |
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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 empl... |
24 April 2007
06:40 GMT |
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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, explai... |
19 April 2007
09:39 GMT |
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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... |
5 April 2007
04:46 GMT |
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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... |
30 March 2007
06:28 GMT |
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