From nutritious foods that fill you up faster to new weight-loss medications to government food taxes, obesity experts predict maintaining a healthy weight may get much easier during the nex... Read more
Deep Brain Stimulation shows promise for patients with chronic, treatment resistant Anorexia Nervosa
Four of the six patients also experienced simultaneous changes in mood, anxiety, control over emotional responses, urges to binge and purge and other symptoms related to anorexia In a world... Read more
Weight loss or weight maintenance programmes online or by computer helped overweight and obese patients lose and/or maintain weight Computer and web-based weight management programmes may pr... Read more
In 1714, the British government held a contest. They offered a large cash prize to anyone who could solve the vexing “longitude problem” — how to determine a ship’s east/west position on the... Read more
Currently, if healthcare practitioners are trying to determine how overweight a patient is, they use the Body Mass Index, or BMI. Invented in the mid-1800s, the BMI is an international stand... Read more