Ladies who stuff it in first thing stay fuller for longer, snack less, lose weight and keep it off. Sounds like a convincing argument for an almighty grill-up.
We’ve always known breakfast was the most important meal of the day because our mum told us, but now there’s science fact as well as mum fact to back it up.
The number of patients choosing gastric surgery in order to lose weight has risen dramatically, new figures reveal.
A whopping 41% average increase in the number of gastric bypasses performed on obese people was recorded in the UK in 2006-7.
These figures have prompted claims that the Government is not doing enough to prevent the spiralling obesity epidemic.
The average woman spends a decade of her life on a diet.
According to a poll conducted by natural weightloss supplement manufacturers LIPObind, ladies will go on 104 diets between the ages of 18 and 70 – that’s two a year!
As the average length of a diet is around five weeks, that works out to be around 10 years. Ten years?! Now that’s a long time to deny yourself what you really want to eat.
It seems that it was Jamie Oliver, rather than the PE teachers, who had the right idea.
Apparently, exercise is not really beneficial for obese children - rather, a healthy diet would be the better plan.
So, should we lock our kids inside at breaktimes? Feed them fruit instead of encouraging them to run around with a football?
Global warming, climate change and the world food crisis - what do they all have in common?
Yep, that’s right, you’ve guessed it: they are all the fault of fat people.
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, despite sounding like the least likely school ever, has decided that because the obese consume 18% more calories than normal, they are to blame for the world’s ills.
Over 50% of Britain’s population are carriers of a gene that could be making them fat.
Scientists have discovered a section of genetic code that gives its owners an increased chance of being overweight and suffering from related ailments such as diabetes and heart disease.
According to The Telegraph website, the gene is a third more common amongst those of South Asian descent, and leads those carrying it to weigh at least 4.4kg heavier and have a waist that is 2cm larger than non-carriers.
Research from across the pond in Chicago has found that overweight women who have high levels of fitness cannot completely eradicate risks to their hearts.
Regular exercise is necessary to lose weight and to improve the health of your heart, but experts say that being fit and fat at the same time just doesn’t work.
“It doesn’t take away the risk entirely. Weight still matters,” said Dr. Martha Gulati, a heart specialist at
Northwestern Memorial Hospital in the US.
Do your kids nag you for unhealthy treats and snacks?
Well, MPs reckon that TV advertising could be contributing to the rising obesity epidemic, and encouraging children to hanker after fatty and sugary grub.
Some recent studies have found shocking results: 25% of five year olds in the UK are obese. The British government have been spurred into action and are now considering tightening the current law on children’s junk food adverts.
Unless obesity is tackled with the same ferocity as climate change the world is heading for a global health crisis, a top scientist has warned.
Professor Philip James called on world leaders to start taking direct action in the battle against the bulge and stop blaming individuals before it’s too late.
Would you pay $100 to stop your children eating too much and spending less time in front of the TV?
Yeah, I thought you would. Well, a new electronic device can help you do just that.
Called the TV Allowance - made by Mindmaster Inc and invented by Randal Levenson in 1991 - it controls the amount of time your kids can watch TV.
Wowzer, are we living in Bladerunner?
Forget shimmying up ropes and being thrown into a freezing municipal pool by a butch swimming teacher, kids of today should be getting fit with ‘virtual PE’, say experts.
Having fat friends could be making you fat.
Or at least that’s according to a recent UK study, which states humans are subconsciously influenced by the weight of those around them.
Researchers at the University of Warwick into European lifestyles say people tend to gauge how fat they are by comparing themselves to their peers.
So, if most of your mates are fat, your idea of what is overweight is different to those whose mates are all skinny.
Professor Andrew Oswald, who analysed data from 27,000 European adults across 29 countries, said: “Human beings compare themselves among their localised peer group even if they are not conscious of it.”
This, of course, is instead of utilising the usual fail-safes when judging weight, such as scales, how much their bits wobble and what they see when they look in the mirror.
So how does this make you fat? Well, once your ideas of what a fat person actually look like, you start to tell yourself that being 16st and only 5ft 1 is normal.
After all, among your fat friends, you are the one they all call ‘anorexic’ and ‘skinny’.
This, of course, is forgetting one thing: the rest of the world’s population. Yep, if you were to believe this research you would think people blindly stumble around their lives paying little attention to the people in work, people in shops, people in the street. You get the idea.
Not to mention the nasty media. So is Prof Oswald saying we have the intelligence of your average garden snail? Well, maybe.
According to his research people of supposedly higher intelligence - in other words, people with more qualifications (not the most accurate barometer admittedly) – are more likely to think they are overweight than those of the same weight with less qualifications. That is, of course, because they read more books.
So what is the point of this research? Are they asking us to ditch our chubby mates and get rid of the elephant in the room?
Well, maybe not. Rather we can’t stop copying our friends, so if we all lost weight, so would they.
And if we didn’t? Well, Prof Oswald added: “[If fatness levels increase and] we all start copying each other we will end up with quite serious health problems.
“Rising obesity needs to be thought of as a sociological phenomenon, not a physiological one.”
Having fat friends could be making you fat.
Or at least that’s according to a recent UK study, which states humans are subconsciously influenced by the weight of those around them.
Researchers at the University of Warwick into European lifestyles say people tend to gauge how fat they are by comparing themselves to their peers.
So, if most of your mates are fat, your idea of what is overweight is different to those whose mates are all skinny.
Professor Andrew Oswald, who analysed data from 27,000 European adults across 29 countries, said: “Human beings compare themselves among their localised peer group even if they are not conscious of it.”
This, of course, is instead of utilising the usual fail-safes when judging weight, such as scales, how much their bits wobble and what they see when they look in the mirror.
So how does this make you fat? Well, once your ideas of what a fat person actually look like, you start to tell yourself that being 16st and only 5ft 1 is normal.
After all, among your fat friends, you are the one they all call ‘anorexic’ and ‘skinny’.
This, of course, is forgetting one thing: the rest of the world’s population. Yep, if you were to believe this research you would think people blindly stumble around their lives paying little attention to the people in work, people in shops, people in the street. You get the idea.
Not to mention the nasty media. So is Prof Oswald saying we have the intelligence of your average garden snail? Well, maybe.
According to his research people of supposedly higher intelligence - in other words, people with more qualifications (not the most accurate barometer admittedly) – are more likely to think they are overweight than those of the same weight with less qualifications. That is, of course, because they read more books.
So what is the point of this research? Are they asking us to ditch our chubby mates and get rid of the elephant in the room?
Well, maybe not. Rather we can’t stop copying our friends, so if we all lost weight, so would they.
And if we didn’t? Well, Prof Oswald added: “[If fatness levels increase and] we all start copying each other we will end up with quite serious health problems.
“Rising obesity needs to be thought of as a sociological phenomenon, not a physiological one.”
Having fat friends could be making you fat.
Or at least that’s according to a recent UK study, which states humans are subconsciously influenced by the weight of those around them.
Researchers at the University of Warwick into European lifestyles say people tend to gauge how fat they are by comparing themselves to their peers.
So, if most of your mates are fat, your idea of what is overweight is different to those whose mates are all skinny.
Professor Andrew Oswald, who analysed data from 27,000 European adults across 29 countries, said: “Human beings compare themselves among their localised peer group even if they are not conscious of it.”
This, of course, is instead of utilising the usual fail-safes when judging weight, such as scales, how much their bits wobble and what they see when they look in the mirror.
So how does this make you fat? Well, once your ideas of what a fat person actually look like, you start to tell yourself that being 16st and only 5ft 1 is normal.
After all, among your fat friends, you are the one they all call ‘anorexic’ and ‘skinny’.
This, of course, is forgetting one thing: the rest of the world’s population. Yep, if you were to believe this research you would think people blindly stumble around their lives paying little attention to the people in work, people in shops, people in the street. You get the idea.
Not to mention the nasty media. So is Prof Oswald saying we have the intelligence of your average garden snail? Well, maybe.
According to his research people of supposedly higher intelligence - in other words, people with more qualifications (not the most accurate barometer admittedly) – are more likely to think they are overweight than those of the same weight with less qualifications. That is, of course, because they read more books.
So what is the point of this research? Are they asking us to ditch our chubby mates and get rid of the elephant in the room?
Well, maybe not. Rather we can’t stop copying our friends, so if we all lost weight, so would they.
And if we didn’t? Well, Prof Oswald added: “[If fatness levels increase and] we all start copying each other we will end up with quite serious health problems.
“Rising obesity needs to be thought of as a sociological phenomenon, not a physiological one.”
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