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Weight Of The World

Depression, Anxiety May Take Toll on Health as Much as Smoking, Obesity

...obesity,” Niles said. “To our knowledge this is the first study that directly compared anxiety and depression to obesity and smoking as prospective risk factors for disease onset in long-term...

By The Swaddle Team

Household Disinfectants May Put Kids At Risk for Obesity

...obesity. Researchers tracked the gut bacteria composition of 757 babies, aged 3 to 4 months, their weight at 1 and 3 years, and their exposure to disinfectants, detergents and eco-friendly...

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Study Challenges Theory Pinning Childhood Obesity on the Way Parents Feed Kids

...conventional wisdom, which has linked rising rates of childhood obesity in India and around the world to unhealthy eating habits. While the nutritional value of the food kids eat has...

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we are what we eat

Rising Demand for Processed Foods, Animal Protein Will Worsen Global Obesity, Malnutrition by 2050

The steady dietary shift from unprocessed, plant-based foods to processed foods and animal protein as people’s primary source of nutrition will worsen malnutrition and obesity and strain the environment, according...

Waist Management

Study: For Postmenopausal Women, Belly Fat Is a Key Marker of Health

...study. This phenomenon is termed normal-weight central obesity. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study shows that women with this kind of central obesity have an...

By Pallavi Prasad

All The Arguments You Need: to Convince People Being Fat Isn’t Necessarily Unhealthy

...or greater than 30. Researchers found that 6% to 75% of the studies’ participants had metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) — a healthy rate of metabolism in obese people. Metabolically healthy...

Myth of the BMI

People With Low BMIs Aren’t Necessarily More Physically Active, Shows Study

...how we study and understand obesity. Obesity is a growing concern in India too; recent reports found an increase in obesity levels among adults. Experts have attributed the rise to...

By Saumya Kalia

Most Visible Stigma

Body Matters: Fatphobia in a Gynaec’s Office

...obesity is not okay. This is why obesity is also classified in science and it is very clear that this is normal and this is abnormal. We have also seen...

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processing hunger

Processed Foods Cause Unhealthy ‘Protein Hunger,’ Says Research

...Raubenheimer explained in the press release. The current study focuses on obesity in the developed, Western world. But nutrient-deficient processed foods may also be a big factor in rising obesity...

By Amlan Sarkar

Gut Bacteria: An Unsexy Trend Hiding Big New Insights

...bacteria and obesity The idea that healthy gut bacteria can help with weight loss draws on research that establishes a link between gut flora and obesity. Some small studies suggest...

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All You Need to Know About Binge Eating Disorder

...all the eating disorders that men do suffer from, BED is the most common. These are further that are exacerbated by the stigma around obesity. Eating disorders are perceived to...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

Unbreak My Heart

Why More Women Die of Heart Failure Than Men

...Berlin, outlined in the new paper how heart disease risk factors such as obesity, diabetes and estrogen levels, play out differently in men and women. Obesity rates are rising globally,...

By Liesl Goecker

Think You’re Too Healthy For Diabetes? Think Again.

...towards central obesity, all of which contribute to metabolic syndrome – a collection of risk factors, such as obesity, that make a person prone toward developing diabetes and other cardiovascular...

By Farah Naz Khan

Watch What You Eat

Study Finds Indian Packaged Foods to Be the Unhealthiest in the World

...energy density. It should be noted that these three factors are responsible for causing obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Additionally, Indian food and drink samples were also found...

By Anubhuti Matta

PCOS: What It Is, What You Need To Know

...in elevated insulin levels, like insulin resistance, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome, can facilitate the hormonal imbalance, says Dr Muffazal Lakdawala, founder of the Centre for Obesity and Digestive Surgery (CDOS)...

By Kamala Thiagarajan

Most People Will Regain Weight After Losing It; Here’s Why

...one point on which nearly all researchers agree is that the physiology of weight regain, like the physiology of obesity itself, is almost certain to reflect a very complicated mix...

By Liesl Goecker

Intergenerational Health

New Study Finds a Generational Link Between Smoking and Body Fat

...genetics can tell us something about how the disease develops.” The interaction between smoking and genetics binds both — how we view both smoking and obesity as public health challenges....

By Saumya Kalia

Eliminating Fructose Can Make You Healthier in Two Weeks

A review of studies related to obesity and sugar has found specifically reducing fructose (as in high fructose corn syrup) intake results in dramatic improvements to metabolism in as little...

By The Swaddle Team

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