London: Women with a gene variant associated with Alzheimer’s disease experience a steeper decline in body mass index (BMI) after age 70 than those women without the...
London: Casting aspersions on the effectiveness of current weight management programmes focused on dieting and exercise, it has been found that chances of obese people recovering...
New York: Spending more leisure time sitting is linked with 10 percent higher risk of cancer, including breast and ovarian cancers in women, says a study led...
Toronto: Children whose parents smoked when they were toddlers are likely to have a wider waist and a higher body mass index (BMI) by the time they...
New York: Measuring body mass index (BMI) during infancy may help to predict if a child will be obese by age four, says a study. The...
London: As the number of overweight adolescents go up, so does the number of youth with high blood pressure, a study shows. Body mass index (BMI)...
Washington: Excess body weight causes over 480,000 new cancer cases per year – 3.6 percent of cancers worldwide – in adults, new estimates suggest. The burden...
