A person that becomes so overweight that he crosses the accepted weight range for his height is generally termed as being obese. A possible reason for such a condition is that the energy contained in foods that are consumed by this person turn to fat instead of being converted into muscle.
Obesity can adversely affect your [...]

There is a growing awareness today in the world about the grave threat that obesity as well as corpulence are posing to the health of millions of people spread all over the world and besides being serious health concerns, obesity itself can also lead to other harmful health problems such as diabetes, heart diseases as [...]

Morbid obesity is a chronic condition and over 9 million adult Americans are currently afflicted by it. An individual is identified as morbidly obese when his or her body weight is over 100 pounds in addition to their ideal body weight or they have a Body Mass Index of 40 or higher.
The health effects caused [...]

In recent decades, childhood obesity is spreading like an epidemic in developed and developing countries. The effects of childhood obesity are extensive and profound on almost all aspects of a child’s wellbeing. A child suffering from obesity or overweight problem may experience severe health complications in association with psychological and emotional hazards. This article focuses [...]

Childhood obesity is considered as a serious threat to the health of any child. Childhood obesity and related health complications including physical, emotional, psychological and social disorders are now spreading like an epidemic.
The risk of being obese in adulthood is dramatically increased if someone is suffering from obesity during his or her childhood. Poor eating [...]

It is common knowledge that among the leading causes of obesity is the fact that a person eats foods that are not conducive to a healthy life and when this is combined with a lack of exercising, obesity is the end result. Many of the foods that you eat contain more calories than your body [...]

The Brookhaven obesity clinic is located in New York and specializes in taking care of patients who are considered to be morbidly obese. Some of the patients that end up at the clinic have tried a variety of other treatments and programs with little or no success and have come to the renowned Brookhaven obesity [...]

With obesity affecting about thirty per cent of Americans today and also otherwise being a worldwide problem, there is a lot of attention being paid to losing weight. However the picture is not all that rosy because of the less than healthy lifestyle being practiced by most Americans today – whether obese or not. What’s [...]

When a person has a chronic condition in which he or she has excess fat in their bodies that is more than just being overweight, it is termed as being obese. Recent obesity studies in America tell us that, alarmingly as many as 65 per cent of Americans re overweight and as many as 31 [...]

Obesity statistics are alarming and one has to read an internalize them to prevent from becoming another obesity statistic himself! According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), more than two thirds of Americans are overweight. That alone is a very sad but true fact and the worst part is that we are not doing [...]