Healthy New Day

Unfortunately, as more children join their parents on the overweight and obesity list, weight management is becoming a family affair. Hectic lifestyles are partially to blame for the obesity epidemic in America. Busy schedules leave little or no time to prepare healthy meals, which is one reason why American families are eating more processed, high fat, no nutrition convenience foods. And snacking is one of the main contributors to this problem. Read the Baltimore Sun article.

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Tags: Weight Loss

ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2009)— For obese men, a dramatic weight loss can be an effective way to improve moderate to severe sleep apnoea, scientists at Karolinska Institutet report. Those with severe sleep apnoea when the study began benefited most from weight loss.

“Our findings suggest that weight loss may be an effective treatment strategy for sleep apnoea in obese men,” says Kari Johansson, one of the researchers involved in the study. Read the Science Daily article.

Tags: Obesity, Sleep Apnea, Weight Loss