CAN A COMPUTERISED PLATE REALLY HELP TACKLE CONCERNS OVER RISING OBESITY RATES IN CHILDREN?

Monday, February 15th, 2010

 

CAN A COMPUTERISED PLATE REALLY HELP TACKLE CONCERNS OVER RISING OBESITY RATES IN CHILDREN?
We know from previous research that people who are overweight tend to eat much more quickly which, in turn, can mean that they eat a lot more food than is necessary before feeling full.
 Now, based on this premise, a new study, recently [...]

Drink Yourself Thin?

Monday, August 11th, 2008

A new ‘health drink’ called Skinny Water, has got nutritionists an food safety campaigners in an uproar, pointing out that the product has not been scientifically proven.

The company’s marketing suits claim the water is guaranteed to suppress hunger and fight fat. Costing 99p per 500ml bottle, the pomegranate-flavoured drink is the latest in a [...]

Obesity - Run, before it catches you!

Friday, December 28th, 2007

All around the world, there are more than one billion overweight adults; at least 300 millions of them are obese. Obesity has become the modern world’s biggest health ailment with over 9000 deaths a year only in England. Obesity does not kill anyone but they are the complications that obesity brings over the times, ‘by [...]