Obesity is more than just carrying excess fat around your body.  It is that and more, often causing diseases which can cut your life expectancy short, such as heart disease and other vascular illnesses, or diabetes, or a host of other illnesses which occur when the body is subjected to such additional stress and strains [...]

The average weight for a toddler around the age of 18 months should be around 10kg at the most.  Yet Dr Swati Karandikar, at an Obesity Clinic in a Birmingham hospital, in the UK, is treating a toddler of 15 months weighing in at a hefty 20kg.  While Dr Karandikar admits the problem may turn [...]