Archive for the 'Prevention of Child Obesity' Category

How is Obesity (Information about obesity) Affecting the Youth

October 1st, 2008, Posted in Prevention of Child Obesity
Tip! Being overweight and obesity are associated with increased risks of gall bladder disease, incontinence, increased surgical risk, and depression.

In a strict sense, obesity is a disease and a major health crisis. In this fast paced world, this problem is prevalent among everyone from a growing child to an adult. Obesity is an excess of body fat or adipose tissue that can lead to major health problems like heart disease, diabetes and cancer. If this problem is given a light look and left unchecked, it could shorten the life expectancy.

Obesity (Childhood obesity pdf)

September 1st, 2008, Posted in Prevention of Child Obesity
Tip! 000 premature deaths are caused by obesity. Obesity is the fastest growing epidemic in the world.

Prologue and Rationale

The Obesity-Hypertension Connection: Is Your Weight Putting You At Risk? (Fast food cause obesity)

August 7th, 2008, Posted in Prevention of Child Obesity
Tip! Being overweight and obesity are associated with increased risks of gall bladder disease, incontinence, increased surgical risk, and depression.

Did your daily weigh-in cause your blood pressure to spike? If it did, you are not alone. More than 50 percent of Americans are overweight or obese and the numbers just keep on rising. These shocking statistics have doctors from the World Health Organization, Center for Disease Control, and American Heart Institute wondering how to stop the epidemic. That sudden shock of seeing the numbers on the scale inch up is not what’s giving rise to your blood pressure. It is the ongoing, day-to-day strain that obesity puts on the entire cardiovascular system that causes blood pressure to reach dangerous heights.

Cures for obesity - Study Says Obesity May Be Caused By Virus

April 6th, 2008, Posted in Prevention of Child Obesity
Tip! 000 premature deaths are caused by obesity. Obesity is the fastest growing epidemic in the world.

In new study published this month, a research team claims to have found evidence that a contagious virus can contribute to obesity.

The team found that a specific human adenovirus Ad-37 seems to trigger obesity in chickens. Previous studies had linked other adenoviruses — Ad-36 and Ad-5 — to obesity in animals.

Prevention of obesity - Obesity - Mental or Physical Problem

February 24th, 2008, Posted in Prevention of Child Obesity
Tip! Being overweight and obesity are associated with increased risks of gall bladder disease, incontinence, increased surgical risk, and depression.

It seems like it is all about looking fit in the eyes of others so that others may praise you of maintaining your body. To impress them you need to be successful, happy and attractive. Who would not like to attract that life mate but for that you require good looks. For years from now the search for the best diet or the most effective exercise regiment is undertaken to lose weight and everyone struggles with it sooner or later.

Obesity: The Fat You Don’t See Can Be The Most Dangerous (Preventing obesity)

February 23rd, 2008, Posted in Prevention of Child Obesity
Tip! Being overweight and obesity are associated with increased risks of gall bladder disease, incontinence, increased surgical risk, and depression.

Everybody is talking about diets, weight loss, and fat. In most cases, they are talking about what can be seen. What a lot of people don’t realize is that despite diets and diet pills, there is a fat that is more dangerous than they imagine. The big problem here is that someone who does not seem to be seriously “fat” or fat enough to worry about doing something about it may have high levels of inner fat.