The British Government is taking tough action on childhood obesity. Under a government initiative to tackle the issue parents will be sent official letters from a child’s school informing them of the status of their children’s weight.
Where a child is classed as being overweight strategies and exercise programmes will be suggested but the onus is […]

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People who are obese with asthma may carry a specific trait that causes them to have poorer asthma control than their slim counterparts, suggests a new research.
Compared with those who were not obese, those who were obese had poorer asthma control, as well as lower total lung capacity, expiratory reserve volume, functional residual capacity, and […]

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Circulating levels of testosterone and percentage of body fat are controlled by the same genes in men, reveals a research published in the latest edition of Clinical Endocrinology. The research shows a 23% overlap between the genes that control testosterone and those that regulate body fat composition, suggesting that these two variables are partly controlled […]

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Most adults in the U.S. will be overweight or obese by 2030, with related health care spending projected to be as much as $956.9 billion, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Their results are […]

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The proportion of U.S. adults who self report they are obese increased nearly 2 percent between 2005 and 2007, according to a report in today’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). An estimated 25.6 percent of U.S. adults reported being obese in 2007 compared to 23.9 percent in 2005, an increase of 1.7 percent.
The report […]

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A new report, released by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health, has shown that childhood obesity is now the No. 1 health concern for US kids in 2008.

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More Britons are failing to recognise they are overweight, research shows
A comparison of Great Britain household surveys from 1999 and 2007 show the number of people classed as clinically overweight or obese has increased.
But fewer adults now correctly class themselves as overweight, researchers report in the British Medical Journal.
One expert said the results were “disappointing” […]

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Obese men should consider losing weight if they want to have children, a scientist told the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
Dr. A Ghiyath Shayeb, from the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, said that his research had shown that men with a higher body mass index (BMI) had lower […]

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The current childhood obesity epidemic in the United States may lead to large numbers of young adults developing type 2 diabetes in the future, along with serious diabetes-related health complications, warns a University of Michigan researcher.
“The full impact of the childhood obesity epidemic has yet to be seen, because it can take up to 10 […]

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Keeping tabs on what you eat with a food diary can double your weight loss, a new study shows.
While the idea of food diaries has been around a long time, this latest research offers more proof they help you shed more poundage, said study co-author Dr. Victor J. Stevens, a senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente […]

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