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Although the overall cancer death rate has dropped among adults and children in the United States, cancers associated with obesity and sedentary lifestyles are on the rise from 1999 to 2008, according to a new comprehensive report.
Half of the U.S. population age two or older indulges in sugary drinks on any given day, new research finds. The CDC report, "Consumption of Sugar Drinks in the United States, 2005-2008," was issued Wednesday. In 2010, U.S. dietary guidelines recommended limiting the intake of both foods and beverages with added sugars.
A 42-year-old obese woman, Marie Eaton, in Britain managed to lose 196 kg to prepare for her wedding day.With her size and weight, she cannot go up the stairs and sleep in the bedroom. She has been sleeping on the sofa ever since. She's drinking liters of fizzy drinks and eating a takeaway worth $60 on her own in at least four nights a week.
People who sit for 11 hours or more a day are 40 percent more likely to die over the next three years, regardless of whether they are physically active or not, according to a new study.
Eating chocolate may make people thinner ...
Weight-loss surgery did a better job of controlling type 2 diabetes in overweight and moderately obese patients than the most advanced medical treatment for the disease, researchers said on Monday.
Obese white teenage girls who lose weight may ...
Growing older and being overweight doesn't have a significant impact on one's happiness according to a recent cross-cultural study looking at quality of life and health status in the US and the UK.
Teenagers who stick to the healthy lifestyle of their younger years are significantly happier than their peers who turn to drink, cigarettes, and junk food.
A new report that came out in the January issue of PLUS Model magazine offers disturbing insight into the disparity between our society's models and the real-life women they are purporting to represent. According to Judy Scheel, Ph.D., executive director of Cedar Associates, an eating disorder clinic in New York, this kind of disparity can go a long way to damaging young girls' ideas of what it is to be beautiful, or even normal, and can lead to eating disorders.
We all know what fear feels like, yet there is something almost perversely euphoric about having the living daylights scared right out of you. Whether by watching a nail-biting horror film or prowling through a haunted house on Halloween,
5 Surprising Signs You’re Probably a Genius 
Eating Peppers Twice a Week May Slash Parkinson's Risk by 30 Percent 
Russian Gymnast Has the World's Strongest Vagina 
Dr. Oz’s Miracle Green Coffee Does Not Help with Weight Loss, Study Reports 
Testosterone May Give Postmenopausal Women a Cognitive Boost 
Forever Young? Report Reveals Top 50 Tell-Tale Signs You're Getting Old 
Taking Vitamins Before Exercise Helps Bolster Bones, Study 
Hormonal Therapy For Transsexual Patients is Safe, Study 
AMA Categorizes Obesity as a Disease 
Research Explains Why Some Soldiers don't suffer from PTSD 
