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The UK is ahead of the US as the world’s leading fast food nation according to research of 9,000 people across 13 countries.
In the UK, 45 per cent of people agreed with the statement “I like the taste of fast food too much to give it up”, compared to 44 per cent in the US.
One [...]

It’s that time of year again you have had your final glass of eggnog and your last bite of pumpkin pie. Now you are ready to start the year off right with a new exercise plan and to keep it up throughout the year so that fitness becomes a routine rather than just another resolution.
Colleen [...]

Don’t have the time, money or the desire to sign up for a gym membership? That shouldn’t keep you from making a New Year’s resolution to get fit.
Colleen Greene, wellness coordinator with MFit, the University of Michigan Health System’s health promotion division, says you don’t have to invest a lot of money in a gym [...]

Researchers in the US claim they have discovered the genes responsible for storing fat in cells.
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, in New York, identified the FIT1 and FIT2 (Fat-Inducing Transcripts 1 and 2) genes that package fat in the form of lipid droplets.
Scientists say that storing fat in lipid [...]

The worldwide obesity epidemic has increased the number of bariatric (slimming) surgical procedures more than fivefold within five years in most developed countries; there is also mounting evidence that the surgery reduces mortality in morbidly obese patients. The issues surrounding this controversial method for weight management are explored in a Clinical Update in this week’s [...]

During this holiday season with its tempting bounty of edible delights, new research calls attention to the role of the expanding American waistline in health and medicine.
Today, researchers at the American Association for Cancer Research’s Sixth Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, being held from December 5 to 8 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [...]

Being overweight is a known risk factor for heart disease, diabetes and a host of other health conditions. Now, a University of Georgia study published in the November issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds that obesity may also be bad for bone health.
Researchers conducted advanced three-dimensional bone scans on 115 women ages [...]

A new study provides the first evidence that people with higher body mass index (BMI) may have a greater response to ozone than leaner people. Short-term exposure to atmospheric ozone has long been known to cause a temporary drop in lung function in many people. This is the first study in humans to look at [...]

People with raised blood pressure (hypertension), who are at increased risk of cardiovascular or renal disease because of excess weight, are particularly likely to benefit from a new class of blood-pressure lowering treatment called direct renin inhibitors (DRIs), experts said this week.
The first drug in the class, aliskiren (Tekturna/Rasilez) is now available in the US [...]

Angst ridden 30 something Bridget Jones starts each day on the scale, obsessively tracking her weight against social expectations. She vows to become svelte, only to confide her personal dieting failures to her diary the next morning.
Author Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’ Diary resonated with women near and far, even catapulting her London-based heroine onto the [...]