Page 7 - Obesity

Even a little exercise is better than no exercise for a longer, better life

People who were sedentary for 10 hours a day were 48 per cent more likely to die during the study than people who moved more

Parents, children can together manage weight through DRIVE curriculum

While parents generally ignore their kids' overeating, obese children have more chances of becoming an obese adult. A new study found that parents and children can together manage weight through Developing Relationships that Include Values of Eating and Exercise (DRIVE) curriculum.The study was published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behaviour."Parents typically are the most important and influential people in a child's environment," said authors Keely Hawkins and Corby K. Martin, Louisiana State University System."Adding this weight management strategy to existing state and federal home visitation programs could help address the current childhood obesity crisis," they added.For the findings, the study was done on sixteen families. Children 2-6 years of age with a body mass index greater than the 75th percentile enrolled. Families were randomly assigned to receive health information only or DRIVE intervention.The DRIVE curriculum was provided during 15 in-person sessions ..

Weight-watchers, go back to grandma's kitchen to beat the fat and stay fit

Obesity is an epidemic and, as bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari warned the world, "For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little"

Researchers draw link between psychological distress, emotional eating, obesity

New Delhi, May 09 (ANI): People with lower incomes may be more likely to have obesity as a result of psychological distress that gives rise to emotional eating, recent findings suggest. As part of the latest study, as team of researchers explored whether the relationship between lower socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity is explained by psychological distress and subsequent emotional eating as a coping strategy. 150 participants from North West England from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds completed questionnaires measuring psychological distress, emotional eating and resilience. They reported their income and education level as an indicator of socioeconomic status and their height and weight in order to calculate body mass index (BMI). The findings were published in the Journal of Obesity. Researchers found that lower SES was associated with higher psychological distress, and higher distress was associated with higher emotional eating, which in turn predicted higher BMI. The stu

Counting your calories? A rice-based diet may help prevent obesity

A Japanese food or an Asian-food-style diet based on rice may help prevent obesity

Why are we still so fat?

Obesity's genetic connection was conclusively demonstrated in the 1980s in a series of papers showing that body weight is strongly inherited, almost as strongly as height

UK govt's plan to tackle obesity: Pizzas must shrink or lose toppings

The move comes as new figures show rates of severe obesity among children have risen by more than a third in just over a decade

AI from space, Google Maps are helping researchers spot obesity on earth

According to the researchers, assessing an area's obesity rates may help city planners develop more green areas to help people remain more physically active

The US is exporting obesity

The obesity epidemic has a much broader footprint, affecting advanced economies and most emerging markets

Taxes on sugary beverages are not enough to halt march of obesity in Asia

Due to time constraints and easy availability of affordable high-calorie foods, these migrant populations are also changing their eating habits

Are you 'overfat' ? Here are the best ways to tell

Although body fat is essential for normal health, in excess it is a risk factor for diseases

Mothers' obesity linked to higher risk of birth defects

The overall risk of serious birth defects was 4.1% for boys and 2.8% for girls

More than 10 per cent of the world is obese: Study

Researchers found that excess weight played a role in 4 million deaths in 2015

Obesity 'epidemic' affects one in 10 worldwide

30% of the world population believed to be either obese or overweight by 2015: Study

Obesity may lead to a decreasing lung function, warn doctors

For 63-year-old Kumar Shahani, a weight loss surgery has helped alleviating the risk of pulmonary embolism, a potentially fatal condition that he had developed wherein a blood clot got lodged in an artery of his lung, blocking blood flow to part of the vital organ. Pulmonary embolism can damage part of the lung due to restricted blood flow, decrease oxygen levels in blood, and affect other organs as well. Large or multiple blood clots can be fatal. According to Dr Ramen Goel, senior bariatric surgeon and Director, Center of Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery, Wockhardt Hospitals, obesity was one of the major reasons for Shahani, a Mumbai resident, who weighed 174 kgs, developing the life-threatening condition and urgently needed to reduce weight. "It is known that morbid obesity can lead to a decreasing lung volume, reduced chest wall and increased respiratory resistance. It also promotes abnormalities in ventilation/perfusion balance causing hypoxemia (low oxygen in the blood) at ..

Want to cut obesity risk? Cook meals at home, skip TV, videos during meals

The study was published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

How obesity causes cancer, and may make screening and treatment harder

This rising obesity burden is the outcome of a host of factors

Kids inherit obesity from parents: Research

Research is very relevant to India as around 30 million people in the country are obese

Nearly 76 per cent people are 'overfat' globally: Study

'Overfat' has been defined as a condition of having sufficient excess body fat to impair health

'Workplace cake culture' may fuel obesity risk: Experts

2016 Great British Bake Off runner-up Jane Beedle said that cake could 'bring joy to the office'