Obesity

The world is facing a serious obesity crisis and we’re not doing enough to confront it — that’s the finding of the health experts behind a new six-part report published in The Lancet. The report finds that, in the past four years, only about one in four nations around the world have done anything to […]

Should obesity be considered a type of disability? The European Court of Justice thinks so, issuing a binding ruling that could have huge implications for employment law across the 28-nation European Union. The ruling was made in the case of Danish childcare worker Karsten Kaltoft, whose employer claimed his services were no longer necessary because […]

The health cost of being obese is becoming clearer. A new report finds that men dealing with severe obesity can expect to live eight fewer years than people who have a healthy weight. The report, which comes from Montreal, Quebec’s McGill University and has been published in the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, said obesity can […]

The main treatment for obesity is a combination of healthy diet and physical activity. And although fad diets, weight loss pills, and cleanses may produce a short-term weight loss; maintaining a healthy weight can only be achieved with regular exercise and a healthy, low calorie diet as part of a regular lifestyle. Healthy, long-term weight […]

Regardless if obesity is an imbalance of body fat versus muscle fat or between the calories one consumes and the energy one burns, it is a North American epidemic that doesn’t just affect adults–it affects children as well. Evidence points to a multitude of factors that can cause or lead to ever-growing obesity rates, including: […]

Obesity, or an obese individual,  is defined as someone with an excess amount of  body fat. However, scientists point to caloric intake exceeding the amount of energy a person burns as the main indicator of obesity.  Nearly 72 million adults in the United States are obese. Medical professionals use several  indexes to measure obesity or […]