Gastric Bypass Surgery as the Ultimate Solution to Morbid Obesity?
Obesity is a condition that has no single effective solution, considering that the problem may not lie on simple matters of changing lifestyle and health choices. With more and more people being diagnosed as clinically obese, it would seem that health concerns cannot be addressed by diet and exercise alone, ...
Obesity and the Cola Connection
If you are addicted to cola drinks that you are probably addicted to sugar. Sugar as you may or may not know is considered to be an empty calorie. It provides tons of calories with no nutritional value and numerous studies have proven a link between obesity and cola drinkers ...
Herbs For Obesity
Obesity is one of the major health concerns that plague America today. Approximately two-thirds of American adults are considered overweight; while one in three are seriously overweight or obese. Obesity is defined as having an abnormal amount of body fat; being 20 to 30 percent over the ideal weight for ...
Controversial Research: Embryonic Stem Cells and Obesity Vaccines
In the field of biomedical research, people are often excited when the results of their research are controversial. It evoked limited attention when Cell, a scientific journal in the US, recently reported that some Japanese scientists at Kyoto University claimed that four genes or factors transformed mouse cells to act ...
Obesity can be a Major Factor in Causing Back Pain
A person is considered to be obese when the amount of fat tissue throughout their body is beyond the usual levels based upon height, age and weight. The American Obesity Association (AOA) states that 64.5% of adult Americans, which is around 127 million people, can be described as being overweight ...
How To Avoid The Fast Food Overload That's Creating The Obesity Epidemic
Your family is not alone if most of your meals consist of pizza, burgers, and chicken purchased at fast food chains. You can't drive down a street without seeing a fast food place, and it's that convenience they rely on. With our fast-paced lives, it is easy to make a ...
Medicare Is Missing The Obesity Target
On July 16, 2004 the headline posted all over America was "WASHINGTON (AP) -- Medicare now recognizes obesity as an illness, a change in policy that may allow millions of overweight Americans to make medical claims for treatments such as stomach surgery and diet programs." (cnn.com)It was almost impossible to ...
Why Is Obesity A Danger To The Heart?
We only have to look at a Titian painting to recognize that at one point in the history of Western culture, fat was considered beautiful. Before the 20th Century, corpulence was touted as a sign of wealth and luxury, largely because most people were barely surviving on a meager existence.Ironically, ...
Obesity Can be Overcome
In a world where slim, slender, and sexy are the standards of the society, obesity has no place. From television programs, commercials, and product advertisements to magazine features, billboards, and internet pop-ups, you won't be able to find men unpacked with biceps, triceps, and abdominal muscles nor women with vital ...
Understanding The Risks Of Obesity Surgery
Older people who have undergone a certain type of procedure known as the duodenal switch have an increased number of complications following bariatric surgery, according to a study in the March issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.But there is an ever increasing number of bariatric surgeries ...
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