Category Archives: Obesity

Its not the quantity but the quality of calories that makes a difference. Low calorie regimes lead to the paradox that the less we eat, the more our survival instinct drives our bodies to lay down fat reserves for fear … Continue reading →

New studies have been presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) to look at the effect that obesity has on knee arthritis and a patient’s ability to recover from knee surgery. One new study … Continue reading →

New research suggests that short bursts of exercise may be better than long drawn-out PE classes in fighting childhood obesity. In a study of Scottish schoolkids, researchers found that those who did 30-second sprints interspersed with breaks for just a few minutes … Continue reading →

An Australian study has found that people who are obese are more likely to havemental health problems. Researchers collected data on the physical and mental health of more than 1200 Queensland-based volunteers. Older obese participants, those aged 45 to 54 years, were … Continue reading →

A reportHarvard University and MIT suggests using a sophisticated model that viewsobesity like an infectious disease, the team predicts that adult obesity rates will rise for another 40 years before leveling out. And before reaching that plateau, 42 percent of adults … Continue reading →

Among more than 2,000 obese Dallas County residents surveyed in 2000-2002,14 percent of African Americans and 11 percent of Hispanics — but just 2 percent of whites — believed that they did not need to lose weight, Dr. Tiffany M. Powell … Continue reading →

This is the fourth in a six-part MyHealthNewsDaily series examining the problems and solutions related to six “winnable battles” in public health, as recently announced by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Americans are eager voyeurs into the … Continue reading →

Health care providers and other professionals who work with the children can help in identifying and treating eating and weight-related problems early in children and adolescents, according to Professor Denise Wilfley and his team from the Department of Psychiatry at … Continue reading →

Too many of us don’t realize that we’re overweight. In fact, the doctors and other experts who published this hypothesis this week in Archives of Internal Medicine have a clinical name for this problem: body size mis perception.

If you are overweight, it can be pretty discouraging to know you come from a fat family — your parents, siblings and even cousins and grandparents may mostly be overweight, too. It can make you think you are destined to … Continue reading →