More than 35% of U.S. adults are obese, 1 and more than 34% are overweight.

More than 35% of U.S. adults are obese,1 and more than 34% are overweight.http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

Posted by Slim Down for Better Health on Thursday, March 26, 2015

What Happens When We Eat Too Much.

What Happens When We Eat Too Much.

We need food daily for our well-being. The food we eat provides us with the vitamins and minerals we need as well as energy in the form of calories.

Are You Trying to Lose Weight? Keep These in Mind

Are You Trying to Lose Weight? Keep These in Mind.  Being overweight is serious business. Here are some of the things we should not do and some we should do.

UK among worst in western Europe for level of overweight and obese people

Only Iceland and Malta have higher proportion of people who are overweight or obese, study find.

The UK has higher levels of obesity and overweight people than anywhere in western Europe except for Iceland and Malta, according to an authoritative global study that raises fresh concerns about the likely health consequences.
In the UK, 67% of men and 57% of women are either overweight or obese, according to the Global Burden of Disease study, published in the Lancet medical journal. More than a quarter of children are also overweight or obese – 26% of boys and 29% of girls.

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"No countries had significant decreases in obesity in the past 33 years," the authors write. "This raises the question as to whether many or most countries are on a trajectory to reach the high rates of obesity seen in countries such as Tonga or Kuwait."

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Obesity is the new smoking, says NHS boss in England

Obesity is the new smoking in terms of the impact on health and the cost to the NHS, 
the head of the NHS in England says.  A quarter of adults - up from 15% 20 years ago
 - and one in five schoolchildren is obese, figures show.

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Michelle Bridges on Australia’s obesity crisis: ‘Things will get worse’

MICHELLE Bridges is all too familiar with the facts. As Aussies, we are at the forefront of a worldwide obesity epidemic. And she has some seriously troubling predictions regarding the growth rate of this epidemic.

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