The Single and Only Secret Method To Creating A Better World

Watch as technology first saves your life and then slowly kills you again.

Is Obesity Contagious?

The obesity epidemic is growing so quickly around the world that it almost appears to be contagious. Here's how to make sure your children don't catch it!

Does Your Child Have An Eating Disorder You Don't Know About?

You may not even realise but your child may have an eating disorder. I'm sure you have heard of the well known disorders of obesity, anorexia and bolemia and the stigma attached to each of them. All children are vulnerable to these conditions and so you should be wary.

Obesity - Causes and Solutions

Learn why obesity has become a nationwide epidemic and what can be done to reduce it.

How Would You Help This Man Lose Weight?

As we started talking about his health insurance, the conversation naturally drifted to health. He is prediabetic, he told me, and his brother is a type 2 diabetic who has already had some toes amputated. He knows he is facing the same future if he doesn't lose weight, but how can he do it?

Obesity And A Poor Diet Can Hurt In More Ways Than One

Obesity causes many physical and emotional ailments that range from cardiovascular to skeletal and even psychological in nature. It is said that an obese persons body becomes a prison. Obesity for the most part can be treated and here's how.

How Can We Combat Childhood Obesity?

Obesity is a very hazardous health condition, one that many people battle. Obesity is even harder to battle when it starts in childhood, because more than likely it will never be dealt with and the health condition will carry on to adulthood. What are the physical and psychological actions can be taken in order to solve the problem the moment it surfaces.

What Does A Gastric Bypass Cost?

A gastric bypass cost varies from around $20,000 to $35,000. That is the bad news. The good news is that sometimes the gastric bypass cost is covered by your insurance company.

Obesity And Low-Back Pain

Obesity is the virtual mother of all diseases. Once it enters the system, all other diseases with related health complications join the band-wagon of bad health. It cripples all physical activities, including exercise, which is essential for good health. One of those health hazards is low-back pain, which gets aggravated by being over weight/obese.

The Obesogenic Environment

The causes for obesity are fairly self explanatory, too much food in vs. too little going out in the form of physical exertion equals obesity. So what's changed over the previous 20-30 years? Well, for starters we have an abundance of labor saving devices such as microwaves, toasters, computers, car washes, refrigerators defrost themselves, we get a ride to school, and we don't even need to drag ourselves up from the sofa to change the television station for goodness sakes! Combine that with current trends in North America to eat a diet of over half the calorie content coming from fat and sugar, and bang very shortly we'll all explode!

Obese Because You Resist God the Holy Spirit?

Guilty as charged we must change our way to match up to the One who indwells us. Obesity is not just a slow suicide but an out and out sin for a Christian. Where does this leave us as disobedient children of God?

Obesity and Brain Attack

The horror story of stroke, the disease due to obesity is a serious health hazard. Brain attack occurs when the blood supply to brain gets reduced due to blood clot in the artery. The cells in the brain die within frew minutes and the brain attack results in life long damage and sometimes, death.

Gastric Bypass – Choosing the Right Obesity Clinic Can Reduce Your Risk

Recent studies show the risks from gastric bypass may be higher than previously thought. You can reduce the risk by choosing the right obesity center for your surgery.

Fat Consequences In Children

As the world battles with an epidemic that is proving difficult to manage and showing signs of becoming a costly affair, our children are getting caught in the cross fire. Adult onset diabetes, weight loss surgery and weight loss medication for children is not exactly what parent had in mind when planning for their posterity.

At What Point Does Obesity Become Life-Threatening?

This article looks at some of the complications brought on by obesity and considers the point at which obesity becomes a life-threatening condition.