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Woman Patient gains weight after fecal transplant from an overweight donor

Feb 6, 2015

An unnamed Rhode Island patient underwent the fecal matter transplant in 2011 to cure a serious bacterial infection C. difficile, which can lead to diarrhea and potentially fatal inflammation of colon. A patien...

European court of Justice rules out Obesity as Disability in recent debate

Cody Gash

Dec 18, 2014

Health

Obesity and malnutrition are two extremes of improper or inadequate nutrition, and both these conditions are almost equally challenging from the global health perspective. While obesity is more predominant in d...

Colorado has the lowest obesity rate; Mississippi has the highest, says health report

Christian Bloss

Sep 6, 2014

World

Colorado has the lowest obesity rate in USA, while Mississippi has the highest suggests a new report by Trust for America’s Health and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Colorado has 21.3 percent obesity while...

Parents of obese children do not realize health concerns

Platonium

Jul 24, 2014

Health

According to a new study, many parents of obese children do not view their children as unhealthy, even when the child's weight is at dangerous levels. A team of researchers from the University of California,...

Eating or skipping breakfast does not influence weight loss

Platonium

Jun 8, 2014

Health

Weight loss is not influenced by either eating breakfast regularly or skipping it, says a new study led by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The study looked at if skipping breakfast or...

2.1 billion people are overweight or obese worldwide

Platonium

May 29, 2014

Health

Thirty percent of the world is equivalent to around a whopping 2.1 billion people. Obesity rates are increasing in every single country in the world. In fact, not one country has been able to reduce obesity rat...

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