Obesity Statistics

Child Obesity and Diabetes
We cannot discuss obesity in the same terms when it deals with children as it relates to adults. Some researchers avoid the word obesity altogether in an effort to avoid stigmatizing individuals. Others use the term childhood obesity to speak of a general phenomenon. Nevertheless, obesity is indeed a problem among young people, no matter what terminology you choose to employ. Besides the obvious psychological issues that children afflicted with obesity often have to deal with, childhood Read More...
Carefree Yet Careful � Control on Obesity
Obesity rates are escalating. Statistic cause major alarm as the percentage of overweight and obese children and adolescents has doubled in the last two decades. Can it be controlled? Statistics may not be, but indirectly, individual persons can. Control on obesity could be answered by personal conviction a devotion to ones wellbeing. Yet how? Statistics also show that most people are unaware of the basic nutritional needs and limitations required for their consumption. This may be the ke Read More...
Overweight and Cancer Closely Linked
Overweight and obesity have become a worldwide epidemic. Statistics demonstrate that overweight has a high rate not only in industrialized countries, but also all over where problems of malnutrition go hand in hand with high incidence of obesity. Population at large is aware that overweight is damaging health in many ways. Overweight produces important alterations in health, especially those of a cardiovascular type such as high arterial pressure, ischemia and cardiopathy. Obese condition empha Read More...