UK researchers studying childhood diabetes found that childhood obesity is fixed by the age of five and suggested that the government should address more initiatives at children's home environment and... View More

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that overactivity of a brain enzyme may play a role in preventing weight gain and obesity. The findings were reported... View More

A Kansas State University graduate student has found a correlation between childhood obesity and asthma.Sara Rosenkranz, doctoral student in human nutrition, Manhattan, conducted research that found that... View More

New research suggests that genes that predispose people to obesity act in the brain and that perhaps some people are simply hardwired to overeat. An international research team co-led by the University... View More

Indulging in just one small chocolate truffle can induce cravings for more sugary and fatty foods - and even awaken a desire for high-end status products, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer... View More

As the debate begins to heat up about how best to improve the US health care system over the next year, one of the nation's largest health insurers has an innovative program that can help its members today.... View More

Author and well-known fitness professional Roger Earle, MA, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT,*D, has been appointed professional education division director for Human Kinetics. In this role, Earle will coordinate the... View More

SPRI Products, a GAIAM company and a leading distributor of rubberized resistance products and fitness accessories, is proud to congratulate Michelle Aguilar, this season’s winner of NBC-TV’s... View More

One in three UK adults — or 13 million people — will be obese by 2012, finds research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. And almost half... View More

In a year when national headlines have reported the downfall of businesses, Keoni Subioni of Honolulu has defied the economy and trumped the odds to receive a national honor for doing just the opposite.... View More

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle will pull double duty in the Obama administration, where he will serve not only as the Health and Human Services secretary but also oversee a new White House Office... View More

New research at the Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE) at the University of Copenhagen - shows that dark chocolate is far more filling than milk chocolate, lessening our craving for sweet, salty and fatty... View More

Town Sports International — the parent company of New York Sports Clubs, Boston Sports Clubs, Philadelphia Sports Clubs and Washington Sports Clubs — has chosen KettleBell Concepts (KBC) to... View More

In 2004, three researchers published a paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggesting the rise in obesity might be linked to the rise in consumption of high-fructose corn syrup. The paper... View More

Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030, international health experts said in a report.... View More

In comparison with weight-loss education alone, follow-up sessions (both face-to-face and by telephone) appears to be a more effective method of weight-loss maintenance, according to an article released... View More

As Americans struggle to cope with tough economic times, family budgets are being stretched for everything from housing and utilities to holiday shopping and travel. Food prices have been affected as well,... View More

They purchase 51% of all personal training sessions, control over two trillion dollars of all disposable income and are being driven your way by chronic disease and the longing for the fountain of youth.... View More

IDEA Health & Fitness Association, the leading membership organization of health, wellness and fitness professionals worldwide with more than 23,000 members in over 80 countries, offers tips to... View More

The Obesity Institute at Children's National Medical Center recently gathered experts from many disciplines to share ideas, failures and successes, and the future promise of prevention and intervention... View More