obesity

A new study, published in the peer-reviewed medical journal International Journal of Obesity, has claimed that the altitude of where you live has an important impact on your wellbeing, especially with regard to your weight. Researchers from…

Diabetes researchers are frantically trying to find out why there is such a phenomenal rise in type 2 diabetes, and they have recently stated that they feel that a massive surge in sugar consumption could be to blame. Sugar is blamed for…

In the developed world we're more than familiar with the terrors of morbid obesity. We are all aware of just how many different ways there are for it to kill you and we all live with an idealised notion of the human form which we all pursue…

Diabetes is a condition which is sweeping the globe. It comes hand in hand with obesity and it's now said that around three-quarters of type two diabetics are obese. This means that the boom of fast food and improper diets across the world…

A drug used to treat asthma may provide a major breakthrough in the treatment of diabetes. Researchers at the Life Sciences Institute of the University of Michigan used amlexanox in studies involving mice and made the remarkable discovery…

The UN has released a report that argues people in the UAE are eating too much of the wrong foods and straining the nation's food supply. This is in-line with recommendations by other food wellness experts, such as the Food and Agriculture…

When you get older there can be a natural feeling that it’s OK to slip into bad habits. After all you’ve lived a long, healthy life getting plenty of exercise and eating lots of fruit and vegetables. All that being good has earned you some…

In a recent study, researchers at the University of Gothenburg found that while weight loss surgery is currently offered to patients who have a BMI of a certain level, many patients could be helped sooner simply through surgical…

Obesity causes so many healthy problems that it’s almost impossible to list them all in one article. It will damage your heart and your joints, you’ll find it harder to breathe on occasions and it might well infect you with type two…

Type two diabetes is a condition which is sweeping the globe. The largest risk factor for it is obesity, which makes sense as the world is currently suffering an obesity epidemic. Processed food is readily available, cheap and easy to cook.…

A team of scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have led the way in contraception research. Not only did they show, just last year, that obese women receiving a progestin birth-control shot…

Long gone are the days where you were warned about guarding your wellbeing against fat, sugar or salt; there’s a new dietary devil in town, and his name is wheat. This is according to Dr William Davis, author of best-selling Wheat Belly:…

Weight loss surgery is an option too regularly taken as a shortcut by those desperate for a better figure. While cosmetic reasons are not necessarily an insufficient motivation to take such a dramatic step, it’s important that every…

Those who suffer with obesity could be more at risk of vitamin D deficiency according to a recent study carried out by the UCL Institute of Child Health. Researchers found that a ten percent rise in an individual’s BMI led to a four percent…

It’s no secret that being obese is disastrous for your health. Obesity puts you at a higher risk of almost every major disease and health problem, and is also a natural burden on your wellbeing. Putting on weight excessively is usually the…

Eating healthily is more important than ever and it's not just the media's idealised view of people which is saying you should lose weight. Are you aware of the health concerns being consistently overweight or obese can cause? Obesity has…

In the winter, the central heating can be a life saver, but could having the heating on actually be damaging to your wellbeing? According to Dutch researchers, the use of central heating prevents your body using up energy to stay warm,…

The number of undiagnosed cases of diabetes represents a health epidemic, according to Diabetes UK. The charity estimates that there are a total of 850,000 cases of unrecognised Type 2 Diabetes in the UK, meaning that one in seventy-four…

A study carried out using mice may hold the key to explaining why more obese people suffer from asthma. The research revealed that the hormone, leptin, is responsible for regulating the diameter of the airway – asthma is a chronic lung…

Just who are you and why are you trying to lose weight? Is it to preserve your health or simply so your feel more confident in your own skin? It doesn't really matter why, what really matters is how you're going to do it. If you're…

Obesity is a condition which vastly affects your health in a number of ways, but when you’re pregnant it can be extremely damaging to both you and your baby’s health. There are a number of possible complications and risks attached to…

Weight loss is a massive industry now that obesity is officially at epidemic proportions. There are hundreds and hundreds of companies rushing to serve this relatively new demographic and more and more weight loss paraphernalia on the…

It has already been established that your mother’s diet and weight can have an impact on your wellbeing before you’ve even been born, which makes sense when you think about how you grow and develop inside of her body, and the food she eats…

When you have arthritis, your obesity can affect your wellbeing in a number of ways and according to Marian T Hannan, editor of Arthritis Care & Research,  ‘As scientists and people who look to the future, we should be thinking: What…

There's a massive correlation between obesity and type two diabetes. Though it's more than possible for those who aren't obese to contract the condition it's not common, ¾ type two diabetics are obese. In the past few decades the levels of…

There are few conditions as linked as obesity and diabetes. One tends to proceed the other and it's been said that around ¾ of type two diabetics are obese or severely overweight. Recent studies have also shown that taking insulin regularly…

In the past type one and type two diabetes went by very different names. They were once known as early-onset and adult-onset diabetes because type one is most commonly diagnosed early in life and type two is much more common in adults than…

Tweaking one aspect of your cellular powerhouses, called mitochondria may be able to improve your wellbeing, if a new study in mice is anything to go by. This tweak could increase your insulin sensitivity, reduce your body and fat mass, and…

Studies led by UC Irvine have uncovered an important cellular mechanism that your body clock, or circadian rhythms, uses to modify energy metabolism, as well as also discovering novel compounds that control this action. Not only does this…

If you're diabetic then being overweight or obese is going to be something you're going to want avoid in general. It's a medical condition which doctors recommend you remedy as quickly as you can. When it comes to managing your diabetes…