Wellness is a term that is becoming very common in our modern era. But what exactly constitutes ‘wellness’? Does wellness mean that we are fine specimens of physical health or does it go beyond the physical? Perhaps it is necessary to consider all facets of our body in order to determine whether we are truly […]

Finding out if someone is obese is not difficult. A hands-on method to ascertain obesity is by pinching the skin-fold at the chin, belly, or waist. If the skin-fold measures more than one inch, there is excess fat stored in that area.
The energy imbalance
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What if I told you that fat is a major contributor to the increasing problem of obesity in the world today. It’s stored in the fat cells of the body.
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Obesity can cause serious disability and diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, sleep apnea and obesity-related cancers. For example, a male below 35 years old who is twice or 40 kg above his normal weight is 60 times more likely to develop diabetes, and he is also 10 to 12 times more likely […]

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death and morbidity among women in the world, accounting for one-third of all deaths in women worldwide. It is estimated that 1 in 2 women will eventually die of heart disease or stroke as compared to 1 in 25 women who will eventually die of breast […]

Obesity is one of the risk factors for heart disease. In order to avoid developing such disease, many obese people will endeavor to trim their weights. But, not many of them will have the same experience as what a “super-fat” lady have had.
A social worker, Janet (not her real name), age 31 has been a […]

Obesity in children and teens (meaning a BMI-for-age above the 95th percentile) can occur as a result of different combinations of reasons, including environmental and genetic factors. However, it’s important to realise that weight gain, whether leading to mild or severe clinical obesity, typically occurs only when a person consumes more calories than he/she expends. […]

Children and teenagers like soft drinks, and so do adults. British drink more than 5 billion liters each year while American consumes more than a quarter of all drinks. Carbonated soft drinks, or fizzy drinks as what they are commonly called, are loaded with sugar and caffeine. They are so popular yet they have very […]

Technically, there’s little difference between impotence and erectile dysfunction. The former word has largely been abandoned, more as a result of the belief that changing a word can change attitudes than because of any medical difference. Still, ‘impotence’ may refer, in some contexts, to a more short-lived inability to achieve or sustain erection.
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The suicide rate among young male veterans who served during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan reached a record high in 2006, the latest year for which records are available, according to data released on Tuesday by the Department of Veterans Affairs, USA Today reports.
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