Overboard – Fast Food and Obesity

Drive-up restaurants, milkshakes, fries, and time-honored burgers and dripping Coney Islands – that’s what makes the American cuisine – since the 1950’s. This has been America’s characteristic manner of preparing food – Fast Food – the epitome of the American life. Yet should tradition hinder improvement?

Obesity and Insulin Resistance

Being overweight or obese may pose health-related risks. Overweight and obesity have been considered as the leading cause of stroke and hypertension, cancer, and type 2 diabetes milletus. But what is obesity and what is insulin resistance. How do obesity and insulin resistance affect our health and how should they be prevented?

Count Your Chances – Obesity Calculator

It is necessary to know how overweight and obesity are defined and measured. An introduction to these things helps us understand and find our place in the chances for obesity.

Obesity Related Health Problems

Being obese causes an increased risk for developing these numbers of serious and potentially lethal health problems. What makes these obesity related health problems even more noteworthy is the fact that it causes some 300,000 premature deaths in the United States every single year.

Assuring a Life-Saving Obesity Surgery

Obesity surgery is the last recommended treatment for the most severe cases of obesity. Yet the last treatment is still meant to be a ‘treatment’, a remedy for you to gain back the health you once lost.

How to Prevent Child Obesity

As incidences of child obesity continue to rise, the best defense is prevention. At this point, many would already be battling the condition. No matter which stage you’re at, perhaps the simple approach would do you good. The following are strategies for the prevention of child obesity and bringing a child down to a healthy weight.

Learning More About Gastric Bypass Surgery And The Laparoscopic Gastric Band

The ready availability of information today is helping more and more people to discover the pros and cons of weight loss surgery and the particular benefits of modern minimally invasive surgical techniques such as those used in laparoscopic gastric band surgery.

Mini Gastric Bypass - The Ideal Weight Loss Solution

For those facing weight loss surgery the mini gastric bypass sounds like a great option but, as this article will show, it's not quite what you might think.

A Look at Obesity

If you thought being obese is being the target of fun, it only tells the part of the story about dangers and predicaments obesity exposes you to. Obesity is no more a simple result of overeating-lead-to-overweight case.

Nobody Else Can Do It For You

In reading, writing, and arithmetic kids may occasionally get away with getting someone else to do their homework. But a height adjustable pull up bar knows if you've done the work, it knows if you're eating right, getting enough rest, and it rewards kids who take responsibility for their own actions.

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.

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.

The Tummy Tuck Procedure Is A Major Surgery That Will Remove Excess Fat But Still Leaves A Scar

A tummy tuck, also known as abdominoplasty, is a major surgical procedure, with all the usual risks involved. Yes, the purpose of a tummy tuck is to removal excess fat and skin from the lower area of the abdomen, but you need to realize that you will be left with a permanent scar, and it may take well over six months for you to recover from the surgery.

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.