Banning sodas from school vending machines, building walking paths and playgrounds, adding supermarkets to food deserts and requiring nutritional labels on restaurant menus: Such changes to the environments… read more.
Patients with active asthma — such as any use of asthma medications, and unscheduled office or emergency visits for asthma — are at a twofold risk of having… read more.
Lack of sleep can elevate levels of free fatty acids in the blood, accompanied by temporary pre-diabetic conditions in healthy young men, according to new research published.
Global progress towards tackling obesity has been “unacceptably slow”, with only one in four countries implementing a policy on healthy eating up to 2010, according to a major… read more.
In a report published today in the journal of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, researchers from Cardiff University were also able to show a correlation between patients treated with a… read more.
World Health Matters – Sweden – by Gary Finnegan: Men who are obese as teenagers could grow up to earn up to 18% less than their peers of… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Compared with standard care, bariatric surgery appears to lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by about 80% among obese persons, researchers reported on… read more.
Asthma takes a backseat to other conditions with older women. Women over the age of 65 face numerous barriers to good health: an increased risk for obesity, greater… read more.
Evidence suggests childhood obesity comes before asthma. For years, doctors have known that there is a link between childhood obesity and asthma, but have found it difficult to… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Gout is associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, researchers reported on Oct 2, 2014 in the British Medical Journal/BMJ. And the… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – After evaluating data on 5 million adults in the UK, researchers concluded that an increasing body mass index (BMI) raises the odds of… read more.
By William Bernal, King’s College Hospital, London, UK. Body mass index (BMI; weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared) is an important measurement for assessing perioperative… read more.
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