Nectar Sleep Reviews the Link between Sleep, Weight, and Health
The autumn season is a busy one, and getting enough sleep every night becomes very difficult. However, it is vital that you try to get a good night’s rest. Not doing so has significant effects on your overall 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...
Adult Diapers Market Forecasted to Grow at 8% CAGR Through 2021
Analysts at Technavio project that the adult diapers market will grow at 8% CAGR between 2017 and 2021, according to the report. The study covers both the present market and growth prospects over the next four years, More...
Impact the World Through Public Health
Today’s medical advances are allowing people to live longer. Although there are fewer deaths from cancer and heart disease, more people are living with chronic illnesses. Citizens of the united states as a whole 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...
‘Early diagnosis and treatment of asthma may help prevent the childhood obesity epidemic’: USC researcher
New USC research finds that children with asthma were 51 percent more likely to become obese over the next decade compared to kids who did not have asthma. Image/OpenClipart-Vectors The study, published on Jan. 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...
The Latest Stats on Male Eating Disorders
We live in a selfie-taking world where people are hyper aware of their image. It’s gotten to the point where plastic surgeons attribute this as one reason for the increase in cosmetic surgeries in recent years. 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...
Coca-cola, Pepsi, Nestle linked to bribe of scientists to defend impact of sugar
Coca-Cola and many scientists came under fire Monday after millions of dollars in donations to a nonprofit fighting against diet links to obesity were made public. Global Energy Balance Network spreads the message More...
Al Jazeera mocks Americans as fat, gun-toting racists in new video
Al Jazeera’s AJ+ posted a Fourth of July-themed video mocking Americans as fat, gun-toting, pill-popping, racist porn watchers. While some laugh off the clip titled “Americans Show Why USA Is The #1 Country 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...
3 Medical Advancements of the Past Decade
Technology is always advancing. One of the fastest advancing fields in the world is medical technology. From antibiotic-resistant infections to deadly illnesses like ebola, the health threats facing the world are More...
Novo Nordisk’s Saxenda receives FDA approval for chronic weight management treatment
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Saxenda (liraglutide [rDNA origin] injection) as a treatment option for chronic weight management in addition to a reduced-calorie diet and physical activity. The More...
