Body Fat

BEING overweight is not good for your health but it is best for longer-lasting sex, science shows.

BEING overweight is not good for your health but it is best for longer-lasting sex, science shows.

It's the really Big Apple. Forty percent of city schoolkids from kindergarten through eighth grade -- 254,076 kids -- are either overweight or obese, according to 2008-2009 data gathered and analyzed by the city's departments of Education and Health. A whopping 22 percent have body mass indexes...

Too fat for health - too thin for surgery

Preserve your memory - French researchers recently calculated the body mass index of more than 2,000 middle-aged volunteers, then tested their memory. The higher the BMI, the lower the test scores, both at the beginning of the study and five years later ~ perhaps because the scientists suggest, fat cells may have a direct and damaging effect on brain cells. read more