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‘World’s heaviest woman’ dies in Abu Dhabi hospital
An Egyptian believed to be the world’s heaviest woman died Monday morning of heart and kidney failure at an Abu Dhabi hospital. A team of more than 20 doctors had been caring for Eman Ahmed…
‘World’s heaviest woman’ leaves Indian hospital after surgery
An Egyptian once believed to be the ‘world’s heaviest woman’ left an Indian hospital Thursday for the United Arab Emirates where she will continue treatment following drastic weight-loss surgery, doctors said. Eman Ahmed Abd El…
‘Fat taxes’ could save billons in healthcare costs: study
Taxing unhealthy foods that contain salt, sugar and fat could save Australia billions in health care costs and extend people’s lives by coaxing them to eat better, researchers said Tuesday. The study in the journal…
Indian doctors prepare ‘world’s heaviest woman’ for surgery
Indian doctors put an Egyptian believed to be the world’s heaviest woman on a special liquid diet Monday as they prepared her for an emergency weight-loss operation. Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty weighs around 500…
Being overweight, obese cuts lifespan by one to 10 years: study
Being overweight shaves about a year off one’s life expectancy, a price which soars to about 10 years for the severely obese, a large-scale study reported Thursday. It refuted earlier findings that carrying a few…
Facebook apologizes for banning plus-size model picture
Facebook has been forced to backtrack after it banned an Australian ad featuring a bikini-clad plus-sized model promoting positive body image, initially saying the photo’s depiction was “undesirable”. The social networking giant blocked the ad…
Overweight in teens boosts middle age bowel cancer risk
Teenagers who are very overweight may run double the risk of developing colorectal cancer when they reach middle age, according to research published Monday. Researchers tracked the health of more than 239,000 men who had…
Overweight linked to 500,000 cancer cases per year
Overweight and obesity is now causing nearly half a million new cancer cases in adults every year, roughly 3.6 percent of the world’s total, a study said Wednesday. A quarter of these cases are “realistically…
One-Third of people worldwide are obese or overweight: Study
(Bloomberg) — About 2.1 billion people, or almost one-third of the world’s population, were obese or overweight last year, researchers estimated after examining data from 183 countries. The estimated number of overweight or obese people…