According to scientists, people who want to keep their weight down, should switch to a vegetarian diet.

Scientists, who examined the eating habits of 22,000 people over five year period, both meat consumers and vegetarians, discovered they all gained a few kilos but meat consumers who switched to a vegetarian or vegan diet gained the least.

A new study has found that increasing levels of obesity have caused a crisis of
Type 2 diabetes in children.

The number developing so called “adult” or type 2 diabetes - which normally afflicts overweight middle-aged people - has increased 10-fold in the last five years.

What influence does the physical activity have on weight loss program for people who are overweight?

The answer is not difficult: the number of calories you burn up during the day must be higher than the number you consume in your meals.

According to the Toronto Globe and Mail, a recent American research findings eliminate the popular theory that taking contraceptives causes weight gain.

Scientists analyzed 44 previous studies that concluded that women using contraceptives are typically in an age group likely to put on weight. However, birth control pills are a very comfortable excuse for that weight gain.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the average American consumes the equivalent of about 20 teaspoons of sugar per day, between meals, drinks and snacks.

A great deal of people choose artificial sweeteners like saccharin and aspartame in order to save calories and - at the same time - satisfy their desire for sweets.

What whole grains are? The first federal definition can help you to find out whether your favorite cereal, crackers, pasta and everyday bread are whole-grain.

Eric Hentges, executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion states that almost a half of Americans never consume a whole grain and that is why knowledge of whole grains is so precious. The government’s 2005 dietary guidelines suggest most adults to consume three one-ounce portions of whole grains every day.

Young people should be encouraged to eat healthy food at school. However, the best way to ameliorate their diets is not through legal actions but through local initiatives supported by state law. The first step to achieve that goal is a proposal to get sugared drinks and other unhealthy foods out of vending machines.

Obesity could be infectious- the evidence of this theory was published yesterday by American scientists. To avoid catching the virus and becoming overweight we should first of all wash our hands as soon as possible.

Today, The Globe & Mail published a response of Dr. Jay Wortman to the discoveries from the Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial published this week in JAMA.
Dr. Wortman arrived from British Columbia in Canada, to participate in the 2006 NMS Scientific Sessions: Nutritional & Metabolic Aspects of Carbohydrate Restriction last month and he told about his work with the population of Canadian Inuit.

A group of scientists concludes that obese and overweight women have more pregnancy complications than women with normal weight. At birth, babies of overweight and obese mothers are more prone to have medical problems.