What is childhood obesity?
Obesity is a condition that affects a large number of people around the world, and, unfortunately, children do not escape this reality. Inadequate food consumption along with a sedentary lifestyle makes younger every day join the list of overweight people. But exactly what is childhood obesity?
Tips to prevent childhood obesity
Obesity is a condition that has affected a large majority of the population in recent decades, but particularly it is deeply disturbed by the rapid increase of morbidly obese children. By following these tips to prevent childhood obesity look after the health of your children avoid complications that may arise later.
Ghrelin: true culprit of obesity?
The weight gain may be due to many causes, although the direct factor implies that accumulate calorie consumption is excessive and unhealthy foods. Thus, the increasingly accentuated fighting extra kilos, looks slimming treatments have focused on ghrelin, a hormone responsible for stimulating hunger. Precisely for this is considered that the ghrelin is linked to obesity.
The true role of fats
We often think that to lead a healthy life and power, we must completely eliminate fat from our diet. Years of misinformation and prejudice (and false promises) have led us to believe that a danger to our health. Tear down some myths and see what the role of fats is.
Qsymia: a new pill for obesity
The obesity and overweight are a problem that affects more than 1,400 million people worldwide, according to WHO 2008. Besides the change in physical appearance, brings with it serious health problems related to the heart, blood pressure, cholesterol or diabetes. But even remedy this state takes time and much effort is it worth the marketing of drugs to lose weight?
How to start training to be obese
When a person knows he has a few extra kilos, is aware that should make greater physical effort than usual to download. And this is usually not too motivating when to start training.
The concept of passive Obesity
The British government conducted a study that has become evident the situation facing the people of that country. Obesity reaches alarming levels, and it is seen as a risk factor for the population, which must be solved immediately.
The causes of high cholesterol
High cholesterol is very risky to our health. Of course, we are talking about the bad cholesterol, LDL, which when in excess in the body, is stored in the walls of the arteries, and thus blocks the transfer of blood to our heart and tissues. But why can raise the level of cholesterol in the body? What are the causes of high cholesterol?
The tendency to obesity is in early development
Obese people face a complex problem to resist the hunger drive. Typically an obese person is hungry and can not be controlled and eat, or do you demand an effort that truly entails suffering and awareness.
Obesity is linked to prostate cancer
The men who are fighting prostate cancer are twice as likely to die from the disease if they are obese, according to a new study.
Michel Pollak one of the oncologists at the University of McGill with Harvard University conducted the study stated, "If we could say that detectives have a serious suspicion"