Gretchen Knight has been there and done that when it comes to sports and recreation. She remembers biking as a youngster, sampling yoga when it was trendy, and beginning to play tennis by virtue of marriage. “I married into a tennis family, so I figured I’d better.” Read the rest of this story »

A new breath test can help doctors detect why some patients suffer unexplained weight loss, anemia, and nutritional deficiency. Read the rest of this story »

The new obesity guideline released by the Diabetics Foundation of India on Tuesday may get many Indians into the Obesity bracket. Read the rest of this story »

In homes across North America, TV is far more than background noise at dinner: it’s front and center. A recently concluded survey suggests that for kids, watching TV during dinner may be contributing to a hefty problem. Read the rest of this story »

In response to the era’s slimmer-is-better mentality, a period when women crave Kate Moss’s figure, not Kate Smith’s, and men prefer Leonardo’s abs over Clinton’s bulge, hundreds of on-line dieting and fitness Web sites are posted on the Internet. Read the rest of this story »

Sixteen year old Robert Milem is shedding pounds in order to save his life. A year ago he discovered he has diabetes and had to begin injecting himself with the insulin his body lacked. About 15.7 million Americans suffer diabetes. A third don’t know they have it. Thousands of young Americans are developing type 2 diabetes, or adult onset diabetes. Read the rest of this story »

Studies show that people who receive individualized, professional guidance lose up to three times as much weight as folks who try dieting on their own. Read the rest of this story »

Maintaining an ideal body weight not only keeps the body fit, but also reduces the risk of life-threatening diseases. A new study has revealed that colon cancer risk increases in men who gain weight as they grow older. Read the rest of this story »

A new study has suggested that in order to prevent obesity later in life it is important that prevention efforts start as early as from age 2. According to researches obesity progression starts from age 2 and if not controlled by the age 8 the child already enters into the overweight category, making treatment extremely difficult. Read the rest of this story »

According to a new survey conducted in Britain, Anorexia primarily associated with the female gender is no longer confined to adolescent women but even young men seem to be affected with an increase of about 67% cases reported in the last 5 years. Read the rest of this story »