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  3. Obesity Acceptance and Fat Acceptance: Different Labels; Same Dangerous Message By Alan Cooper
    Obesity acceptance, also known as fat acceptance, has a simple, appealing message... It's also a potentially lethal one.There's nothing wrong with being obese, argue advocates of this proudly pro-fat gospel. Led by the the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), they accuse Western medicine of manufacturing the disease of obesity out of thin air (no pun intended!).This "propaganda", says NAAFA, fuels discrimination and prejudice against people with obesity. This in turns produc…


  4. Dealing with Childhood Obesity By Bill Herren
    Experts tell us that overweight or obese children have reached epidemic proportions. If you spend your childhood being obese then there is a very good chance you will spend your adulthood being obese. Our children could end up as adults facing problems such as heart disease, high blood pressure, depression and poor self esteem. These are problems we do not want our children to have to deal with.How can help our kids reach their ideal weight and live a healthy lifestyle? First off, remember tha…


  5. What Might Surprise You About Childhood Obesity By Rae Pica
    The formula is pretty straightforward: energy in/energy out. This is the term nutritionists use to describe the intended balance between calories consumed and calories burned. If the level of physical activity is not great enough to burn the amount of calories taken in, weight increases. If this imbalance continues, overweight and possibly obesity result.Given our fondness for fast food (an ever-growing fondness, due to ever-busier lives) and our tendency to “supersize,” it’s easy to imagin…


  6. Obesity & Weight Management is a Social Issue By R.G. Srinivasan
    Much has been written about obesity and globesity. Obesity is perhaps the biggest drain on any nations economic resources with a mind-boggling costs to which researchers are yet to put a final figure. But the estimates run into trillions of dollars across the world.Governments across the world is mired in deep bureaucratic mechanisms to do anything more than put out food guidelines. Even this does not reach the intended public.The issue needs to be tackled massively by the society that has …


  7. Is Obesity a Disease? And What Should Be Done About It? By John La Puma
    You have noticed your obese friend suddenly slimmer. You want to know what she’s doing, but you don’t want surgery or side effects.My Miami patient Marcia weighed 303 pounds. She noticed newly trim, formerly 325 pound Kim walking the golf course, and asked her how she’d lost weight. Marcia now weighs 190, has quit smoking and a year later, has gained control.Labeling Marcia and Kim as diseased only makes them victims, and medicalizes their problems. Deciding obesity is a disease stigmatizes t…





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Obesity in America -- The Growing Epidemic! By Shelley Hitz

Obesity is a disease that affects approximately 60 million people in the United States, where women are especially affected. Over one-third of women between the ages of 20 and 74 are obese, the majority of them being African American or Mexican American. With more and more pre-packaged food and less and less activity, the number of obese people in America has steadily increased since the 1960’s.But what is obesity? Many people think obesity means that a person is overweight, but that’s not exa…
Hispanics and Obesity - The Worrying Truth By Alan Cooper

What is the link between Hispanics and obesity? Are people of Hispanic origin more prone to obesity than others?Respected Hispanic trend watcher Jaun G Tornoe feels there is enough anecdotal and scientific data supporting the link between Hispanics and obesity to raise warning flags…One of the culprits he identifies is the huge choice of cheap, fast food and sugary drinks on offer to newly arrived Latino immigrants, many of whom come from extremely deprived backgrounds…Fast Foods and Obesity -…
Battling Childhood Obesity through Smart Eating By Jim Duffy

Finally, a positive solution regarding America’s difficult and costly campaign to stem childhood obesity is emerging. For the thousands of children and their families who are currently battling with childhood obesity, this good news is long awaited.Indeed, the risk factors for childhood obesity read like a checklist of ailments that only a generation ago would never have been linked to children and diet: heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and of course, soc…
Obesity Shortens Life Expectancy By R.G. Srinivasan

Steady gains made in improvement in life expectancy may be brought to naught by the increasing waistlines in America. Obesity has become a killer disease and shortening the life expectancy of Americans. A new report by the scientists in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests shortening of life spans by 3 to 5 years.Obesity is the major cause of many diseases from cardiovascular to diabetes, certain types of cancers, arthritis, high blood pressure and strokes.With cost of Health care in…
Obesity – The Underlying Historic Causes By R.G. Srinivasan

The scourge of obesity has reached such gigantic proportions across the world that it is now termed as globesity. The obesity is now accepted as a global epidemic and governments are pouring in money and resources to fight this menace, which is quietly swallowing the economic gains of a country.Obesity is a relatively a new disease which has become widespread only in the past 50 years. Research in US indicates an increase of 1 % obesity levels every year for the past 20 years and this rate 1…

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