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Currently one of every three children Americans is obese or overweight. While they are data of a country in particular, is a reality that childhood obesity is increasingly common in any part of the globe.

It as so many other situations could be avoided with a bit of information, because few people who know that obesity if it can prevent. In fact it is much easier to prevent treat it.

The risk of a child to become obese begins even before birth, establishing some parameters that are going to repeat during childhood and would likely lead to overweight.

Almost half of American women who are living a pregnancy are overweight or obese, this increases the chances of your baby is born or very small or large, which has influence in the development of obesity of the child. Read the rest of this entry »

New research has shed light on the issue of obesity. A recent study run counter to the biological clock facilitate the emergence of this disease showed that those who eat after dinner are more likely to gain weight.

The biological clock is telling us when to sleep and when awake. We also mark the mealtime. It seems that those who eat after dinner are more likely to gain weight. Such is the case of those with night eating syndrome (when they eat more than half of daily calories after dinner) or those working at night.

This study was conducted by Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) and published in “Obesity”. According to research eating our way out of sync clock facilitates the apparition of obesity.

A good solution to avoid gaining weight is to modify the timing of meals. According to the researchers, “this may be the beginning of the development of new strategies to combat obesity.” Beyond this, experts point out that this is not sufficient to prevent disease. Also, avoid excess calories, exercise and sleep the hours needed.