The Latest Breaking News from Obesity

Over the last decade, smartphones have become ubiquitous not just for sending texts and staying abreast of news, but also for monitoring daily activity levels.

The procedure takes 90 minutes, with patients usually able to go home on the same day, and is reversible

Despite conflicting epidemiological results regarding the best time to exercise for weight loss, a study suggests that the best time of day to increase the relationship between daily moderate to vigorous physical activity and obesity is between the hours of 7 and 9 in the morning. Read further on Dynamite…

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Body mass index has been used as a general metric for measuring obesity in the UK since the 1980s. When should we pay attention to it, and when might doing so be problematic?

Although obesity has been recognized as a disease by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 1948, its identity as a disease may not be widely perceived the same way as other health conditions.

Researchers followed more than 6,000 white-collar workers, with an average age of 45, for 18 years, from 2000 to 2018. 

“The U.S. workforce is among the most stressed in the world, and these workplace stressors can be as harmful to health as obesity."

People who exercised in the morning had a lower body mass index and smaller waists than those who did not.