Weight Loss Managment articles
Who becomes obese or overwight?
The World Health Organization now considers obesity to be a global epidemic and a public health problem as…
Obesity in children: special considerations
Identifying Obesity in Children
The same BMI standards used for adults along with anthropometry (measurement…
Weight in the Older Adult
Age plays an important role in helping to define the risk from obesity. The mortality rates due…
How serious is obesity and being overweight?
General Adverse Effects of Obesity
Over 300,000 lives could be saved each year if all Americans…
Commercial Weight-Loss Programs and Meal Replacements
Commercial Weight Loss Programs. This report cannot possibly address the many commercial and nonprofit weight-loss programs currently available…
High Protein Diets
High-protein low-carbohydrate diets have become popular again. They include the Zone, Dr. Atkins, Protein Power, Sugar Busters, and…
Low-Fat and High-Fiber Diets
Some studies suggest that replacing foods high in fats with low-fat complex carbohydrates (fruits, vegetables, and whole grains)…
What are the drugs used to treat excess weight
Drugs used for weight loss are generally called anorexiants. All the drugs are potentially effective when used appropriately…
Experimental Therapies: Weight Loss
Naltrexone. The drug naltrexone (Trexan) blocks the euphoria of drug abusers and is being tested for people who…
Surgical Procedures for Obesity
Surgical procedures for obesity (also called bariatric surgery) may be appropriate for some dangerously obese people and may…
Body Mass Index (BMI)
The term BMI is often used when discussing the obesity epidemic, but what is BMI?
BMI…
Want a good diet? Count to five
A new guide to make it easier for people to increase their intake of fruit and vegetables was…
‘Fat summit’ to tackle obesity
Ideas on how to tackle the nation’s problems with obesity, poor diet and lack of exercise were being…
Is your child destined to be fat?
A new ‘obesity’ gene test may detect babies at risk before their first birthday. Cambridge University researchers are…
Fighting obesity in your child
An alarming increase in obesity among children is due to their increasingly lazy lifestyle, according to a…
Rise of the overweight child
Children are fatter than ever before, official figures showed yesterday.
Almost a third of youngsters between…
One in ten children are obese
A shocking new report has revealed that 10 per cent of children worldwide are overweight or obese.
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The UK’s cholesterol crisis
Almost half of all adults are carrying dangerously high levels of cholesterol, the hidden killer which clogs the…
Cancer threat of obesity
Obesity could cause as many cancers as smoking, health experts warn today.
Cancer Research UK…
80,000 cancer cases caused by diet
Food and drink cause as many as 80,000 cases of cancer each year in the UK, researchers warned…
Feeling overweight? Blame your parents
There’s nothing new about children blaming their parents for everything imaginable. But, as far as body fat is…
Bumper portions = obesity
"Big food” is threatening public health and adding to the growing obesity epidemic in the UK, increasing the…
Obesity becomes the norm
Many parents and children do not recognise that they are obese, and being overweight is increasingly seen as…
New food bill to combat child obesity
A fresh attempt to help tackle childhood obesity through legislation is being launched today.
Debra Shipley…
Emotional Eating
Emotional eating is the practice of consuming large quantities of food—usually “comfort” or junk foods—in response to feelings…
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