Tag Archives: Obesity

Boutique gyms are seeing an increase in the number of children signing up for personal training packages, egged on by their parents who see children spending too much time on electronic devices and battling with obesity.

MRTs in Singapore public transport should not be fetching lazy, fat Singaporeans. The main issue is that those fat and overweight Singaporeans are overburdening the MRTs.

A morbidly obese 57 year-old Malaysian woman assaulted an air stewardess onboard a Tiger Airways plane in February after a fellow passenger accidentally caused a pair of crutches to fall and hit the Malaysian woman on her head.

A new study finds that daily consumption of half a litre of sugared soda is linked with 4.6 years of additional biological aging, effects that are comparable to that of smoking. The research found that sugary drinks are associated with cell aging, suggesting sugar-sweetened soda consumption may promote disease independently from its role in obesity.

ONE in eight people in the world is undernourished, yet people in affluent nations like Singapore are wasting food, at the retail and consumer stages, at an alarming rate ("More food going to waste"; March 19). Another big problem is overindulgence in food, leading to obesity. The obesity epidemic has become a worldwide phenomenon. Singapore has not been spared - our adult obesity rate increased from 6.9 per cent in 2004 to 10.8 per cent in 2010. Obesity is a major cause of diabetes, stroke and cardiovascular disease. If the obesity epidemic is allowed to grow unfettered, it will take a toll on our health-care system.