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If, a couple of days ago, we saw the toll the ever increasing obesity rate is taking on the British NHS, a new study comes to link it to yet another worrying aspect: cancer. A recent research published in the journal Cancer shows that, in older women, obesity increases the risk of ovarian cancer by 80%, as opposed to... |
5 January 2009
06:14 GMT |
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Obesity has long ceased to be an isolated occurrence, something that is only someone else’s problem, having now been awarded the status of “epidemic” that calls for immediate action and concrete measures to fight it. This is also the conclusion politicians in the UK have come to after data held by t... |
30 December 2008
05:43 GMT |
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While junk food represents a serious danger to the health of all of us, perhaps it’s children who are the most exposed to it and to its negative effects. This is also the main approach of a new series of ads to be launched in the UK, targeting not the children who can’t stop eating junk food, but the pare... |
29 December 2008
04:10 GMT |
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It seems that Nintendo's Wii Fit can be wrong every now and them and, what is even more disturbing for many people, it has adverse effects on users. At least that's the result of a young ten year-old girl who used the Wii Fit which told her that she was fat. Now, it wouldn't necessarily be a problem, s... |
7 May 2008
15:06 GMT |
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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 ob... |
12 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Today, in many western countries, less than 1% of women breastfeed exclusively for the first six months of the baby's life. In UK, the categories most prone to breastfeeding were found to be well educated, professional women, older than 30 and mothers for the first time. The fear of ending up with the saggy boob... |
4 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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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 i... |
29 November 2007
06:03 GMT |
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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... |
23 November 2007
04:32 GMT |
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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 lik... |
22 November 2007
04:39 GMT |
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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... |
15 August 2007
05:22 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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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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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 teenage... |
15 March 2007
10:29 GMT |
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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&#... |
5 March 2007
03:12 GMT |
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