One of the worst beverages ever invented is the soda pop, also known as soft drink. It is a proven health hazard. ‘Soft drinks contain little to no vitamins or other essential nutrients. However, it is what they do contain that is the problem: caffeine, carbonation, simple sugars — or worse, sugar substitutes — and [...]

According to a new study from the University of Utah, ‘living near a variety of restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets and even fast food outlets actually lowers your risk for obesity.’ The findings of the study debunk earlier studies which suggest that an overeater’s environment causes him or her to be fat.
Part of the study’s findings [...]

According to Phil Edwards, a researcher from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, “We need to do a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness. It is a key factor in the battle to reduce carbon emissions and slow climate change.”
Edwards’ research found that ‘the average overweight person is responsible for [...]

There are strange infections – and even stranger ones because we never thought they were virally transmitted and coming from bacteria, instead of just resulting from unhealthy lifestyle, genetics, or ageing. ‘A growing number of diseases that were thought to be down to genetics or lifestyle turn out to have an infectious origin.’ For starters, [...]

We all know the easiest ways to self-destruct, and yet some of us blindly race to the finish line at the earliest time we could.
A lack of some things can kill. Obesity, diabetes, and cancer are only some of the serious problems caused by inadequate sleep or sleep that is less than 7 or 8 [...]

In the war against the obesity, the scientists found a new enemy: the sugary drinks. A group of renowned studious and specialists in nutrition asked the federal government from the USA that applies a new tax on that type of refreshments, that, according to them, are big responsible for the overweight epidemic that the [...]

The US Health Department is all set to fight obesity amongst the citizen of its country. 32.2 percent of adults and 17.1 percent of children are clinically obese in the United States costing the government $147 billion every year.  An advertisement is aired in the New York to make the people aware, rather shock them. [...]

In New York, there is a campaign war against soda and other sweetened drinks. The city’s health department has launched ‘a public-awareness campaign, which includes posters in the subway system and a multilingual Health Bulletin’ that began on the end of August and will run for three months.
The new campaign asks New Yorkers if they’re [...]

A team of researchers of the Center of Control and Prevention of Diseases (CDC) of the United States accomplished a study with five hundred adult people, with ages between 19 and 90 years. The study confirmed the nerd player’s old stereotype: most is above the weight, they have problems to relate with other people and [...]

According to Jeffrey Koplan, MD, MPH, and colleagues from the Consortium of Universities for Global Health in their commentary in The Lancet, “The global in global health refers to the scope of problems, not their location. Global health has to embrace the full breadth of important health threats.”
The authors have offered a definition of global [...]