Obesity epidemic in the U. S. swells
Americans just can’t seem to step away from the plate or the fast foods. With the state of the economy and the associated increasing stress the reach for cheap comfort food may get more compelling.
According to the latest U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly [...]

Keeping a food diary can double a person’s weight says the findings from one of the largest and longest running weight loss maintenance trials ever conducted.  The study is published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
the study is one of the few studies to recruit a large percentage of African Americans as study participants [...]

To turn your body into a fat-burning machine, eat small meals throughout the day
 
1. Rise and chow
If you think skipping breakfast will help you shed a few pounds, think again. Not eating a morning meal can actually trick the body into thinking it is starving, which makes it hold on to fat or cause you [...]

For men with type 2 diabetes, according to a new study, how fit your are may be more important that just your weight in determining your longevity. 
For the study researchers categorized l, depending on their performance on a standard treadmill exercise tolerance test.reviewed the cases of 2,690 male diabetic veterans in VA hospitals as having [...]