What is obesity? Is it just a condition where a person is fat or few pounds overweight or is it a condition that can prove to be fatal? Though very few people realise this, obesity can prove to be …

About Obesity - Dangers and Treatments

According to estimates of the World Health Organization, more people are dying of obesity than starvation in the present times. The global health watchdog says that obesity will become the number-one preventable cause of death …

Pondering over weight loss? With obesity spreading far and wide, entrapping young and old alike in its ambit, it is important to find a solution to this health hazard. Weight loss pills which have made their presence felt in the …

Quite understandably – and quite rightly, in fact – diet pills used to have a bad reputation. It’s easy to see why – the diet pills of the sixties, seventies and eighties were barbiturates – street name ‘speed’. That’s …

Known in the the US by its generic name Rimonabant, Acomplia is hailed as a miracle weight loss pill. It is considered an anoretic anti-obesity drug and the first CB1 receptor blocker to be approved for use. It has …