Quick Survey To Obesity

Basic knowledge of obesity - its origin, reasons, dangers and prevention advice.

Weight Loss Medicine

Obesity is a problem that is growing at an alarming rate affecting many people and it is also a factor that leads to other serious conditions such as heart disease or diabetes. Treatments can include prescription weight loss medication, over the counter supplements, or both.

Reasons Why So Many People Are Overweight

Obesity has become a huge problem for most people living in developed countries. Today, 30% of children between the ages of 10 and 17 are obese and 60% of all adults are either overweight or obese. There are many reasons for our overweight problem.

Boost Your Metabolism In Order To Lose Weight

Our bodies need calories to sustain the vital functions of our body like breathing, heart rate, waste removal, and cell repair and growth, even when we are resting. So, it's important that even our resting metabolic rate isn't too low. In this article you will find tips to help you boost your metabolism so that you can lose weight easier.

Childhood Obesity

Childhood Obesity is quickly becoming an epidemic. Obesity is quickly becoming an epidemic, not just in children but adults too. There are 40 million people in America that are obese. Approximately 15.3 percent of children (ages 6-11) and 15.5 percent of adolescents (ages 12-19) were overweight in 2000. An additional 15 percent of children and 14.9 percent of adolescents were at risk for overweight (based on BMI / body mass index measures).

Obesity - Discover An Appetite Suppressant That Works

Obesity is a growing problem among adults worldwide and the way to combat it is simple eat less and eat more healthy food. This of course involves curbing your appetite. Here we will outline a natural appetite suppressant that's natural and is the subject of considerable research in the medical community as a possible cure for obesity.

The Prevalence of Child Obesity

Child obesity has quickly become a major problem in America, the degree to which may not even be fully realized at this point. To consider all the aspects of obesity, a systems approach is necessary in identifying all factors involved. From this perspective, a more encompassing view of the prevalence of child obesity can be observed.

A Parent Volunteer Speaks Out on Behalf of Operation Pull Your Own Weight

A parent volunteer articulates her impressions of Operation Pull Your Own Weight so that other parents and educators will seriously consider implementing it in their own schools.

Obesity: Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Where do you begin when you are overweight or obese? How do you start to lose the weight that took years to gain? Here is a brief article about how to begin and which resources you should go to for information.

Losing Weight the Healthy Way

Implementing these eight suggestions, do them everyday, work on making them become habit and you will be on your way to natural weight loss.

Deal Or No Deal

Yes this is what I believe could be the most important decision of your life. Deal or no deal?, well the deal is, are you going to work with me, and do what I ask you to lose weight. Okay, I know in your mind right now you are thinking what the blazes is this guy talking about. Well, there are two reasons I am telling you why this is the most important decision of your life, first, should you lose weight for you will feel you are so full of energy and be raring to go, and what could be better than that. Imagine having the energy that you had those many years ago.

Childhood Obesity - Links To Childhood Nutrition

Childhood obesity can not be attributed to a single factor, but to multiple elements including prenatal and postnatal nutrition, heredity, and physical activity. Obesity is a result of the combination of these elements. This article is focused on prenatal and postnatal nutrition only.

Fitter or Fatter

Are our children getting fitter or fatter?

Every Body's Different, Every Body Can Make Regular Progress, And Regular Progress IS Winning!

With access to a height adjustable pull up bar and leg assisted pull ups, every kid can learn to pull their own weight and to naturally immunize themselves against obesity for a lifetime without resorting to pills, shots, or special diets to do the trick.

Bariatric / Weight loss Surgery

Bariatric (weight loss) Surgery promotes weight loss through two different methods: •The first method makes the stomach smaller and is called a restrictive procedure i.e. swedish adjustable gastric banding •The second method is by bypassing the part of the intestine that is most able to absorb calories and is called a malabsorptive procedure. •Combination of both: Roux-en-Y Gastric bypass. Laparoscopic Banding & Gastric Bypass are the popular operations.