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Alli-Oops! Alli, GlaxoSmithKline’s new over-the-counter weight loss medicine, was rolled out in Europe this week, and the world of weight loss is all abuzz. But Alli is not a magical cure for...

Swiss Study Supports Super Surgery Evidence shows that weight loss surgery is not a cure for obesity. Unfortunately, many patients who undergo surgery and follow the recommended post-operative...

Love Can Be Blind to Childhood Obesity After studying data from 20 international research studies over the past decade, researchers have found that parents worldwide tend to fail to recognize the...

What Your Sonogram Won’t Tell You According to statistics, some 45% of U.S. mothers-to-be are overweight or obese. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center...

Moderate Exercise May Be Belly-Fat Buster Belly fat is dangerous. Not only is it unsightly and can cause your clothes to shrink at the cleaners, it puts strain on the body and releases molecules that...

Fast Food is Fun! In 2001, the National Health Interview Survey in Taiwan examined the level of happiness of more than 2300 children ages 2-12, then correlated this data with the amount of junk food...

U.K. Healthcare System Hit Hard by Obesity Trend In America, health care is a private affair. In the UK, however, care is provided by the National Health Service, N-H-S a government system funded by...

No Luck for Overweight Irish Air Travelers United Airlines’ decision last month to charge overweight passengers more for a share of the Friendly Skies caused sighs of relief from some-- and cries of...