What Is Belly Fat? Belly fat is the common name for central obesity or abdominal obesity. It is distinguished by the accumulation of excess visceral...
Researchers from the Mayo clinic have determined that people of normal weight but with excess belly fat have a higher death risk than people classified...
Could it be? Could slamming that tall glass of Orange Juice, good old OJ, be the secret to staying lean? Two recent studies see a...
Doctors and dietitians have been relying on the BMI or ‘body mass index’, for two centuries. It is one of the key vital signs when...
Most research around obesity focuses on the long-term health risks it presents. Greater likelihood of developing diabetes and heart disease are among the reasons medical...
Ten months ago, my entire life changed – and not for the best. I found myself homeless, newly single, and with no idea where to...
Body’s immunity is a great thing that helps in fighting against diseases. When you get into an infection, it heals up after sometime that are...
Research and the resulting study done by scientists from the Scottish Diabetes Research Network at Glasgow University has found that men have a greater risk...
Gallop recently conducted a poll to study the obesity rate in the United States. The study looked at the body mass index, which is a...
The Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation published a study on Monday, Sep. 26, 2011 that demonstrates that the combination of obesity and lower back pain...
How often have you included a pack of chips (which your child is so fond of) into his daily eating habit? For most of us,...
Obesity has been arbitrarily interchanged with overweight. However, at the medical point of view they are supposed to be defined differently. The term obesity refers...