What Kills More- Cigarettes Smoking Or Obesity?
People who are either obese or smoking, even both are growing at a very alarming rate. While more and more people are suffering from the various diseases and complications that can be brought about by obesity and cigarette smoking, it’s still frustrating for health advocates how some people can still not care about how damaging their situation is to their health and well-being. As for the debate on which one’s worse, smoking or being obese, there are actually doctors who s...

Making Smart Choices With The Glycemic Index
The Glycemic Index (GI) has been around since 1981 and is a great blueprint for eating healthy. With a growing population of diabetics and overweight individuals, eating within GI guidelines, meaning that you take into account how much a particular food raises blood sugar and over stresses insulin production, is gaining interest among the medical community and the public. What is the Glycemic Index (GI)? The Glycemic Index indicates how quickly 50 grams of a food’s c...

Childhood Obesity
OUR DIETS TODAY Our diets today consist of entirely too much processed, high fat, high sodium food. The nutrients and fiber our bodies need to stay healthy are not found in most of the food we purchase at restaurant chains, drive-through restaurants, take out food, and processed or pre-cooked meals. The problem is, we are a nation of individuals in a hurry, and do not have the time, nor take the time, to eat healthy. We are raising our children on high fat, high salt, fast...


Study Says Obesity May Be Caused By Virus
In new study published this month, a research team claims to have found evidence that a contagious virus can contribute to obesity. The team found that a specific human adenovirus Ad-37 seems to trigger obesity in chickens. Previous studies had linked other adenoviruses -- Ad-36 and Ad-5 -- to obesity in animals. These and other adenoviruses cause colds and other common illnesses in people. There are about 50 of them, according to the team leader, Leah D. Whigham of t...

The Science Of Obesity: Fats & Cholesterol
For years we heard that a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet would keep us healthy and help us lose weight. And many of us jumped on the bandwagon, eliminating fat and high-cholesterol foods from our diets. Well, unfortunately, we were doing it all wrong. Instead of eliminating fat completely, we should have been eliminating the “bad fats,” the fats associated with obesity and heart disease and eating the “good fats”, the fats that actually help improve blood cholesterol l...


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