Obesity Linked to Irregular Heartbeat, Study Finds
People who are obese are 40% more likely to have atrial fibrillation, or rapid and irregular heartbeat, than people with a normal body weight, a new study has found. Atrial fibrillation can cause heart failure, More...
A quick guide to varicose veins
Varicose veins are a complicated condition that affects a broad range of people, most commonly experienced by those who are older, overweight, pregnant or have a family history of the condition. Ordinarily, the More...
AT&T Now Recognizes Excessive Sweating as a Disability
AT&T has added hyperhidrosis, or excessive sweating, to its list of relatively common medical conditions that it recognizes as a disability. The company is partnering with the International Hyperhidrosis Society More...
The Healthcare Boondoggle
A Government that controls health care also decides who lives and who dies by outlawing choice and implementing rationing. Who wants an overpaid government bureaucrat sitting in front of a computer endowed with More...
Tips For Wiser Eating At Home
Nearly two-thirds of adult Americans are obese. People are considered overweight when their BMI goes over 25. To put it into perspective: if you are 5 feet 5” tall and weigh 150 pounds, you are overweight, and More...
France bans ‘unlimited’ soda refills in move to battle obesity
France has banned restaurants from offering unlimited refills of soda and sugary drinks, their latest bid to decrease the rise in the nation’s obesity rate. Hotels, restaurants and school cafeterias will More...
Fitness trends for 2016 – It’s high time you stick to your New Year resolutions!
Did you resolve during 2016 New Year that you’ll get more active this year? Well, you would be rather alarmed to know that a staggering 65% of such so-called New Year resolutions turn to the wayside just after More...
Is Liposuction the Answer to Your Problems?
For the past few years, the liposuction procedure has proven itself to be one of the most popular plastic surgery procedures within the United States, making it to the top of the list alongside breast implants. More...
Some of the Most Common Myths about the Lap Band Dispelled
The lap band is a reasonably new type of bariatric surgery. The gastric bypass, by comparison, has been around for some 30 years. As a result, a lot of myths still exist about this new procedure. The reality is More...
Sitting Is The New Smoking, And Other Causes Of Lifestyle Diseases
In case you aren’t sure what a “lifestyle disease” is, here’s a quick lesson. To put it basically, lifestyle diseases are diseases caused by the type of lifestyle you live. These include illnesses such as More...
Creating A Healthier Office Creates a Healthier Business
The human body is an amazing machine that has overcome every evolutionary obstacle to reach its current incarnation. However, as we made the shift from hunter/gatherer types to farmers, merchants, service, and the More...
Are Kids Becoming the New Couch Potatoes?
In recent years, there has been a rise in childhood obesity. Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years. The percentage of children aged 6-11 years in More...
1625 ‘Fat soldiers’ dismissed from US Army over weight
Excess body fat among soldiers caused 1,625 to be booted from the U.S. Army in 2012. A Thursday report said the military dismissals over failed health and fitness tests were 15 times higher than in 2007. Officials More...
Mississippi leads nation in obesity
No state beat Mississippi in rates of adult obesity in 2011 according to the 2011 CDC state obesity map released Monday. Image/CDC Rates of obesity in the United States ranged from a low of 20.7 percent in Colorado More...
New York’s Salt Ban latest in Nanny State efforts
Felix Ortiz (D-Brooklyn) from New York is proposing Bill A10129 which is would impose “up to a” $1,000 fine for the use of salt in food preparation in any restaurant per violation. Chicken McNugget Happy More...
The Fat Police are out in full force
Everybody from representatives from the Kansas legislature to the Mayor of New York City to university researchers certainly want to make it more difficult and expensive for you and I to enjoy such pleasures in More...
