January is said to be the busiest month for fitness trainers. It’s the time of the year when people go to the gym to fulfill their New Year’s resolution of losing weight. These people would tell the world of their wish to drop excess weight and be in shape. But come March, gym attendance begins to decrease. According to Craig Kastning, Chicago Fitness Trainer and Boot Camp Operator, New Year’s resolution of losing weight is usually broken. Most people go to the gym for a week or two and then... 

A new study was published that suggested that the amount of food consumed counts when it comes to accumulating body fat. The latest findings challenge the claims that healthy weight loss requires the adjusting of nutritional components a one’s diet, which are fat, protein and carbohydrates. The diet industry has various methods of increasing or decreasing carbohydrates, fat, or protein in the body. The study will be published in the next issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.... 

Severely obese people face enhanced risks of heart diseases, hypertension, diabetes and strokes and The American Heart Association, AHA, has recommended bariatric surgery, as appropriate for the extremely obese, for whom all other options have failed to aid in weight loss and subsequent reduction of cardiovascular risks. Persons with  BMI of 40 and over qualify as severely obese, while BMI of 30 indicates obesity and BMI of 25-29.9 is an indication of overweight. According to lead author, Paul... 

The findings of a new study published in The Lancet has indicated that obesity in any which way was bad and a risk factor for heart diseases and  that it did not matter whether obese people were apple-shaped or pear-shaped. Earlier obese people were told that if they had  apple-shaped bodies, when they had excess fat around their bellies, they were three times more prone to suffer heart attacks than those, who were pear-shaped and had the fat distributed around the buttocks and hips with a... 

The benefits of walking are well-known and here is yet another study from Australia that reveals that walking can lower diabetes risk and lowers body mass index as well. Australian scientists from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, observed 592 middle-aged persons who took part in the drive to gauge diabetes levels among Australians. The study spanned across five years from 2000 to 2005 and started off with a comprehensive health examination and data collection about the... 

To assess a person’s weight and the health risks that the weight may pose, some key factors are considered. These are the body mass index or BMI, waist circumference, and some factors and conditions in conjunction with obesity that can raise the risks of serious ailments. Body mass index: BMI is a measure that tells you about obesity and excess weight in a person. Though it does not give the exact percentage of body fat, you get a very good estimate of the weight status category the person will...