Category Archives: Obesity

Obesity is already considered to be a risk factor for developing diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. But have you ever considered whether obesity can affect how well your blood pressure and cholesterol medicines work?

If you’re a woman in a strained marriage, it just might be. Here’s why…

There’s new evidence that if you’re severely overweight, obesity may be hardwired into your brain and you simply can’t help overeating.

A lot of obese people think they’re healthy if they don’t have high cholesterol or diabetes. After all, what’s the problem with extra pounds if everything else checks out okay? Turns out there’s a big problem and here’s what it … Continue reading →

With almost 20% of children 6 to 11 years old categorized as overweight and 80% of overweight teenagers becoming obese adults, it’s important to find a way to reduce our children’s current weight and future obesity risk. Surprisingly, the answer … Continue reading →

I’m not sure I’m buying what this latest study is selling. Read this and see what you think.

If you think that all an obese woman needs to do to lose weight is eat less and exercise more, think again.

There are actually 2 risk factors: chronic middle ear infections and tonsillectomies in childhood. That’s because ear infections and tonsillectomies can cause damage to taste nerves which appears to affect eating habits.

Overweight adults can be healthier than thin adults. That’s the surprising conclusion from a new study by the University of Michigan. It shows that your weight doesn’t predict the state of your health nearly as well as the size of your…

When testing for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) — which screens for prostate cancer in men — doctors and patients may be misled by the results for obese men. That’s because obese men often have lower PSA levels than normal-weight men.