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Keeping Your Family Healthy
Subtle changes in your family’s eating habits can have long lasting effects. It is never too late to make a healthy change for you and your family.
Lack of Sleep and Obesity
If you sleep less, your leptin level falls, and grehlin goes up, resulting in overeating and weight gain
Is Overeating an Addiction?
This article discusses obesity and the now common surgery for being overweight. After having bariatric surgery, patients have been experiencing what researchers call an addiction transfer. This article relates different cases of post surgery patients, and how healthcare experts think about this issue.
How To Lose Weight The Healthy Way
Weight problems and obesity have become one of the chief health concerns in the Western world today. It is estimated that over 60 million people in the United States alone are overweight while it is increasingly becoming a world-wide problem. However, for many people this can be prevented with a few simple lifestyle changes. In this article we look at how to lose weight the healthy way
How To Stop Smoking Without Gaining Extra Weight
About 55% of smokers gain approximately 3 kilograms after they stop smoking. This increase in weight is caused by two reasons:
How Did I Become Obese?
I realize how difficult it is to be overweight and have low energy levels. I know how it can negatively affect your personal, social, and work life as well as increase your risk of many degenerative diseases that are rampant in today’s world.
Obesity is a condition in which the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and mammals is increased to a point where it is thought to be a significant risk factor in certain health conditions, leading to increase…
Having a Sweet Tooth Can Cause Wrinkles
Women would go to great lengths just to stop the aging process, and the prospect of getting wrinkles from too much sugar consumption may affect their physical, emotional and psychological well-being. Some women even develop inferiority complex, and may experience stress and anxiety due to aging problems.
High Blood Pressure: The Silent Killer
This article talks about the dangers of high blood pressure or hypertension. This condition has taken the lives of millions of people around the world because it has been taken for granted. High blood pressure gained the reputation of being a silent killer because it usually doesn’t bring any symptoms while doing the damage.
Holidays Challenge: Keep Off Those Extra Calories
During the holidays, most people struggle with their diet that seasonal weight gain becomes an issue specially to people who have problems with obesity. This article offers some practicals on how to overcome this holiday diet blues through wise planning and moderation.
Hard Habits To Break Lead To Heart Disease
Inactivity or lack of exercise, smoking and a poor diet are considered risk factors for heart disease. This article discusses each risk factor as well as the five main areas of diet which can prevent coronary heart disease: cholesterol, blood pressure, healthy weight, blood clots and fiber.
Gastric Bypass – Post-Operative Expectations
At a time when obesity is growing at an alarming rate, an increasing number of people are turning to gastric bypass surgery to solve their weight problem. But just how successful is gastric bypass surgery in terms of weight loss and can it really make a dramatic change to your life?
Gastric bypass has been around for more than fifty years now and, while there are of course risks as there are with any surgical procedure, in the vast majority of cases patients are more than …