All articles related to "obesity":

Obesity Consequences

The High Cost of Excess Weight Apart from tobacco, there is perhaps no greater harm to the collective health in the U.S. than obesity. Worldwide, too, obesity's health effects are deep and vast-and they have a real and…

Obesity Causes

Many factors influence body weight-genes, though the effect is small, and heredity is not destiny; prenatal and early life influences; poor diets; too much television watching; too little physical activity and sleep; and our food and physical activity…

Obesity Definition

What Does It Actually Mean to Be Overweight or Obese? At their most basic, the words "overweight" and "obesity" are ways to describe having too much body fat. The most commonly used measure of weight status today is…