Causes Of Obesity

Fighting causes of obesity with weight loss

Obesity In Dogs – Help Fido Lose The Fat

By Suzi Sevcik He’s not fat, he’s fluffy. That’s what you keep telling yourself anyways. However, the reality is your dog is obese. This is a medical condition that should be taken seriously Continue reading

Obesity Can Be Infectious – Virus To Blame

By Gelsey Simmons Tens of millions of people over the world are affected by weight related problems and consequently to the related diseases. You may have put in some extra weight but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you have a weight related problem. Doctors diagnose a patient with obesity on the basis of a rough-and-ready measurement called Body Mass Index (BMI) – weight in kilograms divided by the square of the individual’s height in metres (kg/m2) and then assess the extent to which you need to lose weight to get rid of obesity. According to a US government research study, a few million obesity-affected people may have a virus to blame for their condition instead of the usual food factor. The study found a strong link between infection with ‘adenoviruses’ and excessive weight gain. Continue reading

What Kills More- Cigarettes Smoking Or Obesity?

By Smoking Joe'y 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 suggest that it’ll do you a lot of good to just quit smoking cigarettes point blank even if they say that you may end up gaining a few pounds due to it. This is because doctors believe that the problem brought about by tobacco is actually the most preventable cause of death in the United States while obesity is just in a close second place even though deaths caused by being obese is severely alarming. However, a lot of people in America believe that even though there are a lot of heavy people in the country, they still get to live longer compared to heavy smokers basically because they don’t have the irreversible effects that are being caused by the poisonous ingredients that one can take in due to cigarette smoking. Continue reading

Study Says Obesity May Be Caused By Virus

By Rick Hendershot 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. Continue reading

Can Obesity Ruin A Man

By Jacob Samual If Obesity can ruin an individual’s sense of well being, it can as well mess up the sexual desires of people who are obese. When people lose their energy to remain active through out the day, their life undergoes a drastic change. Obese men get lazy, walk less, see TV more and spend lots of their time being inactive. Inactivity invites more unhealthy weight to the body and this process will corner him till he finds out a way to escape this life- endangering situation. Obese men are equally interested in sex as normal men. Continue reading

3 Reasons Why We Need to Fight Obesity Now

By Greg Garner Obesity is a medical condition where excess body fat gets accumulated leading to adverse effects on health. Body Mass Index (BMI) is used to determine whether a person is obese or not. People having BMI greater than30 kg/m2 are diagnosed as obese. Eating too much junk food and living a sedentary lifestyle are prime reasons of obesity. Continue reading
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