Obesity Epidemic

According to the World Health Organisation, in 2022, 2.5 billion adults aged 18 years and older were overweight, including over 890 million adults who were living with obesity.

India is grappling with a potential obesity epidemic, especially among its youth, according to a new global analysis published byThe Lancet.

Obesity, a growing health epidemic globally, leads to inflammation in liver and impairs its ability to regulate blood glucose. It increases the risk of Type-2 diabetes and its associated complications, including nerve and kidney damage.

Researchers say that, as we age, many older adults will be at high risk for falls as obesity and muscle weakness also increase.

World Obesity Day 2018: With the development people have become more sedentary in their lifestyles and food habits have gone for a toss. Fast food and junk items have taken the place of a normal homemade balanced diet.

World Obesity Day 2018: End Weight Stigma is the theme this year. It is an extremely relevant theme as weight stigma is the least socially accepted form of social discrimination - Nutritionist Pooja Malhotra.

The benefits of healthy eating not only include physical growth, but it also helps to keep them healthy, energetic, sharpens their mind, improves concentration, boosts immunity, stabilizes their moods and prevents hyperactive behavior.

Carbohydrates get a lot of bad press and are blamed for the obesity epidemic but this negative attention may not be deserved for pasta.

This can offer new treatment techniques to fight obesity.

Sugar has long been touted as the culprit in terms of causing various health hazards. Turns out, it may become a fundamental cause of the global obesity and diabetic epidemics, with detrimental effects on the human health

The global increase in diabetes between 1980 and 2002 accounted for a quarter of the 800,000 cases, while the obesity epidemic over the same period resulted in an additional 30 percent of cases.

Give the scenario, this World Obesity Day, the World Health Organization has released a new set of guidelines where trained professionals can help youngster in a better way. After China, India ranks second in highest number of obese children in the world.

More than one in 10 people worldwide are now obese and 2.2 billion are believed to be overweight, fueling a global health crisis that claims millions of lives every year, according to a major new international study released on Monday.

Nearly three-quarters of Mexican adults are overweight or obese and their numbers have slightly increased in the past four years despite government programs to fight the epidemic, a government survey showed Thursday.

Increase in cases of high blood pressure and obesity in China has contributed to a rising epidemic of heart diseases which has turned out to be the leading cause of death in the country, particularly among the youth and rural residents, finds a study.

According to the World Health Organisation, in 2022, 2.5 billion adults aged 18 years and older were overweight, including over 890 million adults who were living with obesity.

India is grappling with a potential obesity epidemic, especially among its youth, according to a new global analysis published byThe Lancet.

Obesity, a growing health epidemic globally, leads to inflammation in liver and impairs its ability to regulate blood glucose. It increases the risk of Type-2 diabetes and its associated complications, including nerve and kidney damage.

Researchers say that, as we age, many older adults will be at high risk for falls as obesity and muscle weakness also increase.

World Obesity Day 2018: With the development people have become more sedentary in their lifestyles and food habits have gone for a toss. Fast food and junk items have taken the place of a normal homemade balanced diet.

World Obesity Day 2018: End Weight Stigma is the theme this year. It is an extremely relevant theme as weight stigma is the least socially accepted form of social discrimination - Nutritionist Pooja Malhotra.

The benefits of healthy eating not only include physical growth, but it also helps to keep them healthy, energetic, sharpens their mind, improves concentration, boosts immunity, stabilizes their moods and prevents hyperactive behavior.

Carbohydrates get a lot of bad press and are blamed for the obesity epidemic but this negative attention may not be deserved for pasta.

This can offer new treatment techniques to fight obesity.

Sugar has long been touted as the culprit in terms of causing various health hazards. Turns out, it may become a fundamental cause of the global obesity and diabetic epidemics, with detrimental effects on the human health

The global increase in diabetes between 1980 and 2002 accounted for a quarter of the 800,000 cases, while the obesity epidemic over the same period resulted in an additional 30 percent of cases.

Give the scenario, this World Obesity Day, the World Health Organization has released a new set of guidelines where trained professionals can help youngster in a better way. After China, India ranks second in highest number of obese children in the world.

More than one in 10 people worldwide are now obese and 2.2 billion are believed to be overweight, fueling a global health crisis that claims millions of lives every year, according to a major new international study released on Monday.

Nearly three-quarters of Mexican adults are overweight or obese and their numbers have slightly increased in the past four years despite government programs to fight the epidemic, a government survey showed Thursday.

Increase in cases of high blood pressure and obesity in China has contributed to a rising epidemic of heart diseases which has turned out to be the leading cause of death in the country, particularly among the youth and rural residents, finds a study.