Nutrition

The holy month of Ramadan is an age-old tradition that brings fasting by the day and celebrations by the night, the faithful keep their bellies empty while the sun sets ablaze, following the Prophet’s plight Once again, it’s the month of Ramadan, a month filled with centuries-old traditions and especially that of fasting during daylight hours and breaking one’s fast, feasting if yo

Alarming Results of the Health Study among Serbian Population Serbs Getting More Obese, Drinking and Smoking More

Serbs Getting More Obese, Drinking and Smoking More
22.1% adults and 13,7% children is Serbia are obese, 34.7% population smokes daily, and 54% consume alcohol, regularly, or occasionally.

Overweight parents and children in the UAE stand a chance to win gold by losing weight this summer with Dubai's slimming campaign focusing on reducing childhood obesity.

After giving away almost 17kg of gold last year, the Dubai Municipality has invited overweight people to participate in the second edition of its Your Weight in Gold initiative.

I guess I am not the only one thinking the month of Ramadan is being observed in a rather “weird” way in the media.

I am not a scholar on religion. I don’t have the necessary experience, nor am I well equipped to lecture on that subject.

China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from taking part in Ramadan fasting, government websites said, prompting condemnation from an exile group on Wednesday.
      
China's ruling Communist party is officially atheist, and for years has restricted fasting in Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority.
      

Thirty percent of the Bulgarian schoolchildren aged 6-19 are overweight and 12.7% are obese, shows a study on school feeding in Bulgaria.

It was done between 2010-2011 by the National Centre for Public Health an Analysis and the Pediatrics Department of the Sofia Medical University, reports Mediapool.bg. 

Crash diets, the dangers of eating too much white broad, gastric bands – whether they really work - and can you live off prunes?

It’s all been kicking off at the European Congress on Obesity, which ends May 31.

One in three Greek children is overweight or obese, according to a new report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which found that Greece, Italy, Slovenia and the US have the highest levels of child obesity among the OECD’s 34 member countries.

Bulgaria ranks 6th in the European Union for childhood obesity.

"Every third first grade child is overweight", Svetoslav Handzhiev, head of the Bulgarian Association for Obesity Research told Darik radio.

Childhood obesity rates are on the rise due to unhealthy diet and lack of enough movement, according to a survey of dietary and nutritional status of students in Bulgaria.