Nutrition

As global rates of Type 2 diabetes rise, the World Health Organisation (WHO) highlights the disease on this World Health Day saying that about 422 millions people are currently living with diabetes.

While Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition which is often inherited, Type 2 is the most common form and is can be caused by factors including obesity and age.

According to a scientific study published in the ‘Lancet’ magazine, 20 percent of adults will be obese by the year 2025. The publication says that 40 year ago the underweight adults were double those of obese, a trend that has changed rapidly. The article underlines that the possibility of achieving the UN goals to limit the pace of growing obesity is close to zero.

Over 30 percent of all adults in Turkey are considered to be "extremely overweight," according to a study conducted by the Health Ministry.

Thousands of Turks, like millions worldwide, experience the physical and emotional impact of obesity, according to professor Nazif Ba?r?aç?k, the president of the Turkish Association for the Study of Obesity.

As Turkey tries to lower daily salt consumption, thousands of restaurants could be preparing to remove the much-maligned condiment from their tables.       

Istanbul-based All Restaurants and Suppliers' Association is planning to discuss this issue during an executive meeting at the end of this month, an industry source said on condition of anonymity.

A study conducted by the University of Oxford revealed that women with a disproportionately large derriere show a better resistance to chronic illness.

Scientists analysed 16,000 women’s bums and it was found that women with bigger backsides tend to have lower levels of cholesterol and are more likely to produce hormones to metabolize sugar.

Aid workers scrambled Jan. 15 to help a hunger-stricken Syrian town where a teenager became the latest victim to succumb to starvation, as Western powers sought U.N. action on lifting blockades.

New research by Aetna International, one of the world's leading health benefit providers, has revealed the three most popular dieting and weight-loss programs in Turkey last year were the Dukan, Keto and Paleo diets.  

Bulgaria's Health Minister Petar Moskov has proposed to introduce a new tax on producers of "junk food" to stimulate the use of healthy food, particularly by children and adolescents.

Twerking and ass-shacking has got a bad wrap for too long. It is time to set the record straight and defend the ‘noble’ act of women twirling her ass left and right, up and down incessantly!  

Efthymos Kapantais, president of the Hellenic Medical Association for Obesity (HMAO), told daily newspaper Kathimerini this week that many Greek people are being “forced to eat low-cost foods, which are often foods of low nutritional value”. This has led to extremely high rates of obesity, particularly among children.