Fitness and obesity News

OSI's Medically Supervised Weight Loss Center of Excellence will hold an open house on February 27 at 6:30 pm in its San Antonio, Texas location to aquaint the public with operations and procedures for the weight loss center.

Did you know that almost 50% of all adults in America make one or more resolutions each year? While we all have good intentions in the beginning of the year, some resolutions are hard to maintain. Here are some tips to help you succeed!

Indianapolis Colts' 2X Pro Bowler, Antoine Bethea stays busy off the field giving back to local youth, through his Safe Coverage Foundation's Holiday Dinner and school visit with NFL Play 60 Program.

Issues on obesity and overweight grow throughout the world. Although rates differ between countries, these have affected both sexes and all ages in high-income countries. But this is more common in poorer people compared to lower-income nations,

The secret is a combination of nutritional cleansing, without harsh stimulants or diuretics, a natural accelerator and meal replacement shakes.

It’s Never Too Early to Learn About Good Health!

Coach Wess Murray, host of 'Essentially Fit Radio', will be interviewing Body Transformation expert and Fitness pro AJ Mihrzad. AJ will be sharing his own story of transformation. He will also share tips we can use to optimize our body and mind.

Coach Wess Murray, host of 'Essentially Fit Radio', will be interviewing author, educator and fitness professional Brent Brookbush. Brent is the author of 'Fitness or Fiction: The Truth About Diet and Exercise'. The show airs Sunday 9/25 at 6PM EST

ToLoseWeight.com, a new social network for health and weight loss, recently launched as a free online community specifically focused on people interested in fitness and how to lose weight.

The 100 Mile Club®, a Corona-based non-profit organization focused on physical fitness and life skills for children, recently received a grant from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.

"The War on Obesity: A Battle Worth Fighting?" Can weight control work, or is Health at Every Size a better answer? Two top scientists, John Foreyt and Linda Bacon, will debate at the American Dietetic Association's San Diego FNCE event, Sept. 25.

Coach Wess Murray, host of 'Essential Fit Talks',will be interviewing World Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation Champion Obi Obadike. Obi will be sharing workout tips and how he crushed racial and cultural barriers in the world of fitness modeling.

Premier Training International are helping the UK's problem of Obesity and Diabetes with its brand new qualification.

Coach Wess Murray, host of 'Essentially Fit Radio', will be interviewing Fitness Model and Personal Trainer Dave Shulter. Shutler will be sharing secret tips of fitness models. We'll also be talking about the importance of a proper healthy mindset.

New study reveals that diet soda promotes obesity, as well as other conditions such as Diabetes, and Heart Disease...

NBC’s hit television show The Biggest Loser® has teamed with the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA) to create a localized program administered by specially-trained fitness professionals.

WellMed is a Gold Level Award recipient in the Start! Fit-Friendly Companies Recognition Program, a key element of the American Heart Association’s national movement encouraging businesses to promote workplace exercise and good nutrition.

The Samsung Experience in New York City is proud to present 'Getting Healthy with Ta'Nia & Coach Wess', a wellness show with a focus on heart health. The show will be taped at the Samsung Experience (Time Warner Building) on Monday May 16th at 6:30PM

Body Adiposity Index is most look forward to index as an indicator of obesity and a good measure of once fitness. BAI will make calculations of body mass index more effective and complete, making weight loss easier.

More than 200 Kids’ Winning Essays Will Be Selected to Attend ‘Sacking Obesity’ Sports & Wellness Camp for Kids Saturday, April 16, 2011 at the Georgia Dome

Read how working with a personal trainer helped one woman fight depression and obesity to reach her goal of being a “Healthy Mom”.

The testosterone advantage for weight loss is what this press release is about. Rob Poulos uses this advantage in his Fat Burning Furnace program to lose more weight in less time. Don’t overlook this powerful fat burning hormone.

To kick start a fitter, healthier and happier 2011, Swansea children can sign up for a free, fun healthy lifestyle club that starts in January.

Child Obesity is an issue that is rapidly on the rise, yet gains very little exposure in the huge Industry that is Fitness & Health. As a personal trainer I have seen the damaging results of child obesity. The best time to make a change is now.

Krisda is available in grocery stores and health food stores. Krisda is the ideal way to reduce sugar and avoid artificial sweeteners. Krisda has zero calories, zero carbohydrates, is gluten free, diabetic safe and will not promote tooth decay.

Emergent Detection Awarded $229,900 Therapeutic Discovery Project Grant For Health Product, BodyKey

Parents must put their children on healthy diet, and get them physically active. Both these if done correctly, will help children to stay healthy and live longer, disease free.

Obesity has always been one big problem Americans face.

Personal Training Institute and Jared Foundation join forces to combat childhood obesity

Especially with obesity in kids being so abundant throughout America, it’s great to get them involved with fitness and interested while staying healthy. Here are 4 Team Fitness America ways to make fitness fun while including your kids.

As the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Announces New Dietary Guidelines that Target Obesity, Wellness Coaches in Exton, PA Announce New Weight-Loss Challenge. They focus on nutrition and exercise counselling and offer ongoing support.

Medical concern about the obesity epidemic has caused companies to take action in the workplace and encourage employees to live a healthy lifestyle.

Tom Perkins an internationally known holistic fitness practitioner and Founder of Lifestyle Solutions Institute will lecture on June 2, 2010 in North Austin detailing how our bodies can’t discriminate between calorie deprivation and starvation.

Shape Shifters Weight Loss announces an advertising partnership with Harkins Theater in Southlake, Texas and the Colleyville IMAX Cinema in Colleyville, Texas to promote healthy weight loss and lifestyle changes that can lead to a healthier America.

Famed Choreographer/Instructor Joey L. Dowdy's Get Up & Groove Fitness is "Springing Kid's Into Action"! It’s Giving Obesity "A High Kick" Towards Improving Health!

The Get Active America Program organized by IHRSA encourages gyms to open their doors to the public. Eastpointe Health & Fitness in Atlantic Highlands, NJ, will open its doors to the community from May 7-9, 2010 to come in and use the club for free.

Independent Team Beachbody® Coach, Steven Gregory of Ann Arbor, Michigan, looking to partner with local non profit groups for fundraising events.

About 70 percent of Mexican adults are now overweight, according to government estimates, more than triple the number of three decades ago. Also, about a third of the country’s schoolchildren and teenagers are overweight.

Folsom fitness expert and boot camp instructor, Val Fujii, shares fundamental food values to help with childhood obesity.

Innovative seminar comes to Danvers, Mass., March 20, 21 sharing specific strategies to eliminate “stubborn weight” permanently.

The proceeding of the first bariatric rehabilitation workshop held in Edmonton, Alberta in 2008 was now published in the latest edition of Disability and Rehabilitation.

Shape Shifters Weight Loss is proud to announce the grand opening of their new location in Colleyville, TX. Specializing in hCG treatments to assist the seriously overweight to take control of their health.

Motivational speaker Bill Ivory Larson will appear on "Essentially Fit Radio" on Sunday, 2-28-2010.The show highlights Bill's incredible weight loss journey. Bill lost almost 200lbs without surgery or fad diets, and he has kept the weight off.

Drinking water can boost metabolic rate and people who reported drinking more than 1 L of water a day in a 12 month weight loss study experienced greater weight and fat loss.

Readers of these pages are by now probably quite familiar with the complexity of ingestive behavior and the importance of understanding brain function in relationship to food intake.

The researchers analysed data from a cohort of 4857 American Indian (Pima or Tohono O’odham Indian) children without diabetes (mean age, 11.3 years) born between 1945 and 1984.

Childhood obesity has reached near epidemic proportions and threatens the healthy future of millions of American children. With spring approaching, a New Jersey hospital is urging families to help

“Science shows healthy students are more successful in school, and that forming healthy habits at a young age can help put these young people on the path toward a lifetime of wellness.”

There are various ways of losing weight but do you really thing that they all work. The answer is NO, because the different type of obesity reducing exercises makes you to have a large work done in a day which in turns increases your diet.

Funded by a grant from the Tennessee Department of Health through Project Diabetes, GoTrybe is now available to approximately 175,000 students and faculty in seventeen school districts.