January 2007 Entries
As reported by Reuters, eating less and exercising more are equally good at helping take off the pounds, U.S. researchers said Friday in a study that challenges many of the popular tenets of the multibillion dollar diet and fitness industry. ...
Most people with Type 2 diabetes or at risk for it apparently ignore their doctors' advice to be active.
Fewer than 40 percent get exercise, a new study found, and the more in danger the patients are, the less likely they are to be active. ...
As reported by Reuters Health, a new study shows that people who are obese can reverse some early heart and blood vessel dysfunction by adopting a healthy lifestyle and losing weight. But exercise alone, without weight loss, does not appear to be ...
Participation in sports and other forms of vigorous physical activity early in life are important to the maintenance of girls' physical activity during adolescence, according to new research in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health (JPAH). ...
As reported by Reuters, more than 120,000 obese Americans had some kind of surgery to help them lose weight in 2004, with the biggest increase among middle-aged people, according to a study released on Wednesday.
Agency director Dr. Carolyn ...
As reported today by HealthDay News, the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States continues to worsen. Between 1976 and 1980, 4 percent to 6 percent of children were overweight. By 1999-2002, that number had climbed to 16 percent.
Being ...