Treating Obesity with Light Therapy

Treating obesity with light therapy is a simple intervention to lose weight. It is a treatment of restricted diet or regular exercise or better yet a combination of both.

Surgery For Morbid Obesity Is Not Simply About Losing Weight

With obesity rising at a record rate so too is surgery for morbid obesity but all too often severely overweight individuals are forced to jump through a series of hoops before they can get the treatment that they often desperately need.

Johnny and Jamal: A Really Strong Story For Kids

This was the story that we used to introduce Operation Pull Your Own Weight to students at Jefferson Elementary School in Davenport, IA. They understand it and are inspired when they heary it. Give it a try with your own kids.

Guarantee Your Weight Loss Success

How to keep motivated to continue losing weight

How Every Gym Teacher Can Combat Childhood Obesity With Almost No Money

Most public schools lack money today. They have to scramble just to pay teachers and to buy text books, so how can they afford a new tried and tested childhood obesity prevention program? This article is dedicated to showing how any gym teacher worth his salt can implement an incredibly cost effective childhood obesity prevention program for pennies from the spare change drawer.

Two Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs That Have Actually Been Proven to Work

In September of this year (2006) The Institute of Medicine released a report that documents our nation's failure to address the childhood obesity epidemic. In the wake of that report, it's important to get a focus on at least two programs that have been proven to work. Check them out and see if either one of them fill your needs.

Obesity – Gateway to Death

Obesity seems to be the synonym of death. It has created a do or die kind of situation for the people suffering from it. If one does not take any measures to control the increasing body weight he or she is bound to fall prey to this dreadful disease.

Four Corn Flakes For Breakfast And A Deep-Fried Buffalo For Lunch

Research tells us (I hate that expression, but it's true) that our bodies actually function optimally on more frequent, smaller meals, rather than less frequent, bigger meals. Our body isn't built to run on a sporadic mix of whopping meals, tiny meals and 'normal-size' meals - or one or two gigantic meals.

Politically Correct Crap

I'm sick of people creating new labels for fat in order to make us all feel better (big, large, full-figured, heavy-boned, thick set) and I'm sick of people dancing around obesity and all it's related issues in an effort to be politically correct. Whatever you do, don't damage anyone's self-esteem - ignore the big fat gut and those clogged arteries and hand them another donut.

Obesity - More Than Just Overweight

Most of us at some point in our lives tried to lose or gain weight. It is a hard experience for most people, but a few extra pounds didn’t hurt any one yet - or did it?

How To Beat Obesity

Take charge of your life and stop being obese today!

A Parent Volunteer Speaks Out on Behalf of Operation Pull Your Own Weight

A parent volunteer articulates her impressions of Operation Pull Your Own Weight so that other parents and educators will seriously consider implementing it in their own schools.

The Prevalence of Child Obesity

Child obesity has quickly become a major problem in America, the degree to which may not even be fully realized at this point. To consider all the aspects of obesity, a systems approach is necessary in identifying all factors involved. From this perspective, a more encompassing view of the prevalence of child obesity can be observed.

Health Care Tax Determined By Weight

The idea of rewarding obese people when they have lost weight is ridiculous since the rest of us maintain a normal weight with no reward. In order to give people an incentive to lose weight you can punish them financially until they lose weight. The incentive is that once they reach a healthy weight the punishment will be reduced.