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Can eating less make you fatter? Find out how it can.   LEWIS Carroll (1832-1898) reflected in his poem Through the Looking Glass the common presumption on how obesity develops in a person over eating. The concept is as simple as basic mathematics: the more you eat, the more you get fat.   Thus, meal skipping becomes a logical way to go. Since those in active work cannot afford a full day skip, workers often skip breakfast more commonly than lunch or supper.   A recent study that Monika Arora of Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth and colleagues conducted in New Delhi, India, seemed to suggest that the opposite is true. The results published in BMC Public Health (October 2012) reported that more children who regularly skip breakfast get more obese (22.9 percent) than those who breakfast daily (14.6 percent) or only sometimes (15.2 percent). And apparently these were significant only among boys than among girls. Such results seem to contradict what app

There many developments in health science and technology that most people today are not familiar of, unless they are working within the relevant field of interest. Even health professionals are not that well-informed as we assume they. One of these well-documented but obscure fruit of modern science and technology is the waist-hip ratio, or WHR. IN ADDITION to the body mass index (BMI), the waist-hip ratio (WHR) is a reliable alternative in predicting risk to heart diseases. For the same purpose, it is a measure of obesity, an indicator of other more serious health conditions such as heart diseases, diabetes, and hypertension. This method is popularized by the World Health Organization Stepwise approach to Surveillance (WHO STEPS). Research shows that people with apple-shaped bodies (have more weight around the waist) face more health risks than those with pear-shaped bodies (more weight around the hips). WHO STEPS defined abdominal obesity as a WHR of above 0.90 for

So much has been blamed on sugar over unremitting obesity. Sugar is just a biochemical tool in the process. The cause can be much deeper. IF YOU you think sweets sabotaged your, already-heavy weight, think again. A German study found out that it is not the reason. Instead, it is stress; the more acute the stress, the faster it piles up those unwanted bulges in the last places you want them. Achim Peters, Britta Kubera, Christian Hubold, and Dirk Langeman of Medical Clinic 1 at the University of Luebeck in Luebeck, Germany reported their findings in this year’s issue of the Frontiers of Neuroscience. The team confirmed two studies made in 2009 and 2010 that... [ READ MORE ]  This article appears in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 23 January 2012.