According to CBC News, Canadians who tend to spend several hours a day in front of their TV or PC are more prone to developing obesity. This conclusion was a result of a large-scale numerical study recently conducted by Statistics Canada.

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Bariatric surgery and other invasive, surgical ways to treat obesity are becoming increasingly popular among severely overweight Americans. However, according to new data provided by the American Gastroenterological Association, the long-term health toll of such operations can well overweight their initial success in helping people shed some pounds. Severe complications, including fecal and urinary incontinence, diarrhea, fungal and bacterial infections of the gastrointestinal tract, and chronic malabsorption of nutrients leading to deficiency diseases, can be a consequence of attempting to manage obesity by surgical means.

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In a small percentage of the population, mental disorders can be a major cause of developing obesity. Overstressed, depressed, and anxious individuals can apply to overeating in order to compensate for their psychological problems, mental disturbances, and low self-esteem. However, in most overweight people, depression and other mental disorders either accompany or follow weight gain, while the key cause of gaining weight is a wrong choice of food, namely, a drastic overconsumption of carbohydrates, synthetic foods, and chemically-processed vegetable oils.

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Recent research link obesity, which has reached the level of epidemic in the industrialised world, to a widespread incidence of many current illnesses, including diabetes, cancer, and heart attack. A new report on the connections between body fat and various cancers has been published this week in the prestigious British medical journal Lancet.

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According to U.S. researchers, obese people do not fit the joyful stereotype attached to them. To the contrary, they are more likely to become victims of a whole range of psychiatric disorders, a new scientific study says.

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