Category: Diets & Weight Loss

Reuters – While heavier adults are more likely to get kidney stones than slimmer ones, that doesn’t seem to be the case in kids, according to a new study.

LiveScience.com – More than one in six American children and teens are obese, but a new poll suggests that parents and doctors don’t always see eye-to-eye on the seriousness of the obesity epidemic. According to the new report, only about half of parents believe it is “very important” to seek medical care for an overweight child.

Reuters – The Czech army has shrunk to just a quarter of its size since Prague shrugged off the yoke of Communism two decades ago, but a new report has prompted it to pursue a different type of downsizing.

Reuters – A growing number of Americans are being diagnosed with the painful form of arthritis known as gout — thanks in large part, researchers say, to the national obesity epidemic.

Reuters – The experimental weight-loss drug lorcaserin may spur modest weight loss without the heart risks of some older drugs, a new clinical trial confirms — though whether the medication will ever reach the market remains up in the air.

ContributorNetwork – By 2030, trends are pointing out that approximately half of all Americans (164 million) will be obese, as reported by The Daily Mail. Already, obesity in America is putting a strain on state government funds to where financially-strapped California is being bled to the tune of some $15.2 billion annually (2009 estimate), according to MyHealthNewsDaily. Around 11 per cent of state medical budgets go to address this American crisis.

ContributorNetwork – Despite healthy lifestyles initiatives, improved nutrition information in schools and healthy McDonald’s kids meals, the problem of obesity is growing. One-third of the nation is overweight. By 2030, half of Americans will be overweight. Obesity is fast overtaking tobacco as the number one lifestyle disease.

LiveScience.com – If you were to walk the streets of, say, Denver, you’d probably see more thin people than overweight ones. Colorado continues to have the country’s lowest obesity rate, according to the latest Gallup poll results.

LiveScience.com – If current trends continue, about 50 percent of Americans will be obese by 2030, according to a new study.