Obesity and depression often go hand-in-hand in middle-aged women, a new U.S. study found.
The research collected information on the height, weight, dietary and exercise habits, and body image of 4,641 women, ages 40 to 65, enrolled in a health plan. The women also completed a questionnaire used to measure depression symptoms.
Women with clinical depression were [...]
Walking can help people lose weight, especially if they use a pedometer to make sure they are going far enough, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
People who added 20 to 40 minutes of walking a day lost a small but steady amount of weight, the team at the University of Michigan found.
“The increase in physical activity [...]
As adult obesity balloons in the United States, being overweight has become less of a health hazard and more of a lifestyle choice, the author of a new book argues.
“Obesity is a natural extension of an advancing economy. As you become a First World economy and you get all these labor-saving devices and low-cost, easily [...]
Participating in physical activities in and out of school more than two times a week protects adolescents from becoming overweight young adults, according to new research.
“The message for policy makers is that the failure to offer physical education is ‘penny wise and pound foolish,”‘ study investigator Dr. Robert Wm. Blum from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, [...]
