Blame Obesity on Food not Sedentariness
	Most people take obesity as a consequence of a sedentary life, when in fact multiple studies carried out in the last two decades clearly show that the couch potato lifestyle can be blamed on overeating which is probably the most likely cause for the world's obesity epidemic. What most people don't understand it that obesity is triggered by an imbalance in the body's energy management. The energy that is received by the body ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2008, 09:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pregnant Women's Diets Can Trigger Child Obesity
	It's not a secret anymore: modern society is confronted with an epidemics of child obesity and researchers are working round the clock to find ways to deal with the current situation – ways that do not involve double mastectomies in teenage boys or gastric bypass surgery on severely obese teenage girls. One of the most recent theories about the three-decade rise of childhood obesity is that genetics may also play an impor ... [read more >>]
	29 May 2008, 04:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Junk Sleep Epidemics
	Who could ever have imagined that sleep could be the triggering factor of a veritable epidemics? To make matters clear, we're not talking about oversleeping, but rather about poor quality sleep, which, scientists have proven, can lead to anything from obesity to chronic exhaustion. It sabotages our jobs by making us less productive and taking days off in order to try and rest properly, it sabotages our love lives and makes u ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Couch Potato Generation
	In the modern era, our society has been confronted with a variety of terrible epidemics, ranging from AIDS and mad cow disease to Ebola and the infamous bird 'flu. We seem to have found antidotes for the oldest demons that have been plaguing us for centuries, only to find that new, more powerful such afflictions have emerged. However, one of the scariest epidemics of the 20th and 21st century has nothing to do with terrifyin ... [read more >>]
	17 May 2008, 04:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Simple Lifestyle Changes Help You Avoid Cancer
	Cancer is among the most devastating plagues of the modern era: last year, the American Cancer Society reported 12 million new cases of malignancy diagnosed worldwide, with 7.6 million people actually dying from the disease. However, thanks to the ever-expanding range of research conducted into cancer, with every month that passes we learn more and more about the origins of this terrible disease and even about how to prevent it, ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 08:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Phentermine: The Weight Loss Drug That Can Kill You
	Weight loss pills have been a subject for heated debates and bitter controversies for decades. Praised by some as life-turning instruments for gaining self-esteem and looking good, diet pills are hailed by others as deadly chemicals that can wreck havoc inside our bodies and very likely kill us. Today, I'm going to talk to you about one of the most commonly used weight loss drugs out there, a little blue and white pill that goes by th ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 06:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ubisoft Ready to Launch the Fight Against Obesity
	The Nintendo Wii has already been touted as an effective way to fight against obesity and different programs have been tested in schools with positive results. It's not a ... [read more >>]
	12 February 2008, 05:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

UK Government Considers Wii in Schools
	Five British schools in Worcestershire have trialled some so-called "active" Wii video games to augment traditional Physical Education lessons with their final goal being the reduction of obesity of the population and encourage students to take and enjoy more exercise, ... [read more >>]
	31 January 2008, 04:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Games to Blame for Obesity Says McDonald's
	Well, in fact it's the chief executive of McDonald's UK to say that, emphasizing on the childhood obesity issue. Excuse me? Wasn't McDonald's blamed quite often for providing food that makes you obese? You might even remember the famous "SuperSize Me" movie, detailing the entire McDonald's-caused obesity issue. The McDonald's official claimed that ... [read more >>]
	08 January 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Will Just One Shot Cure Obesity?
	We hear all the time that many diseases are linked to obesity. But now, a team led by a researcher of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge Louisiana State University, Dr. Magdalena Pasarica, born in Romania, has found that obesity itself is a disease. More precisely, an infection, provoked by a virus linked to conjunctivitis and respiratory affections. Previously, the only known factors ... [read more >>]
	30 August 2007, 03:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mothers Eating Junk Food Whilst Pregnant and Breastfeeding Will Have Obese Children
	For many women who wrongly starve to maintain their body contour, pregnancy is the best mental motivation for unleashing their obsession for food and start pigging out with all kinds of crap. But a new research made at the Royal Veterinary College, London, has shown that eating junk food, rich in fat, sugars and salt, during pregnancy and breastfeeding could expose the child to overeating and obesity. The old assumption that they are ... [read more >>]
	15 August 2007, 05:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Obesity Pandemics, Triggered by...Microwaves!?
	There are many apparently bizarre theories about the case of the rampant current obesity in the western countries. A new one put the blame on ... the microwaves. "Obesity rates started to rise soon after 1984 - around the time of the rapid spread of microwave ownership. The mid-1980s also saw the first ready-meals appearing in shops." said Jane Wardle, professor of clinical psychology at University College London. ... [read more >>]
	08 June 2007, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Plastics and Soap Induce Sterility and Obesity
	Now we have finally found out why some people can be registered as qualified skunks and why some of our workmates subdue us daily to olfactive tortures! Look why: Phthalates are esters widely used for over 50 years in everything from plastics (to turn them flexible), PVC, soaps, cosmetics, shampoos, lotions, lubricants, paint to the coating of some timed-release medicines. Over 75 % of the US population presents detectable ... [read more >>]
	16 March 2007, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Alimentation to the Extremes: Which Are the Effects?
	The overweight is a serious issue in developed countries. But nervous anorexia is also reaching terrific numbers. For example, in Spain, with a total of 40 million inhabitants, it may affect about 1 million persons! 53 % of the adult population in the developed countries suffer from overweight while 10% of the teenagers follow some diet, mostly without control. But both conditions inflict severe health conditions. ANOREXIA ... [read more >>]
	15 March 2007, 10:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fat/Obese Girls Are Given to Early Sex
	Those protective parents that cram their beloved girls should know that this is exactly what will break the girls away from home. A new research showed that childhood obesity and overweight in the US could be linked to an earlier onset of puberty in girls. The team from the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital pointed out that a higher body mass index (BMI) score in girls as young as age 3, and large increases in BMI be ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2007, 03:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia