More than half of all personnel in the headquarters of the Philippine National Police are overweight, while almost one in 10 is obese, records at the organization's Health Service showed.
Regular moderate exercise can raise life expectancy – even among people who are overweight, a study said Tuesday.
Many of us aspire to be in the footsteps of beautiful girls on the runways. Modeling has a colossal impact on the world of a teenager, as girls strive to be as skinny and pretty as those women on the runway.
Nearly all Irish adults are likely to be overweight in 15 years' time, said a study Wednesday that warned of a European "obesity crisis of enormous proportions".
January is looming, and we all know what that means: A resolution to lose weight and get healthy. Just like the 2015 declaration. And the one before that.
Obesity is one of the biggest health problems in the world, causing a string of other ailments such as heart disease, diabetes, sleep disorders and more. But don’t be so quick to blame someone’s weight on laziness or gluttony.
Sometime ago, one of my middle-aged patients, who’s been struggling with her weight, followed up with me, around 20 pounds lighter. I felt happy to see her relatively trim, and looking fit.
A few days after the new year, a middle-aged patient came back to our clinic for follow-up, around six months after her last. Based on her chart, her weight increased from 55 to 66 kg. Her body mass index (BMI), a measure to determine if one is overweight or not, increased from 24.8 to 28.9, a jump from just being marginally overweight to significantly overweight, bordering on obesity.
The perennial dieter knows that if you don’t have sustaining power with your weight loss plan, then your desired goal will never be met.
A New York couple is tying the knot after meeting at a gym where they worked out on their way to losing nearly 600 pounds together.
