Breast cancer risk is not increased in obese premenopausal women: Study
Young women with high body fat have a decreased chance of developing breast cancer before menopause, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health and their collaborators. The finding, published online More...
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...
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...
Nutritional Complexities for People Who Had Weight Loss Surgery
This country is in the grips of the obesity epidemic, and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. However, great strides are being made by offer people things such as lap band surgery, thereby preventing them More...
Lifestyle Changes You Have To Make To Overcome Obesity
Medical complications of Obesity Image/CDC Obesity is quite a huge problem at the moment because of the fact that it affects people from all around the world. The state of the world is not as great as many think. 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...
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...
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...
