According to a recent survey in America, parents of overweight children are not looking them that way. It is really worrying as the overweight children face the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol problems and other ailments generally found in adults. And the overweight children are more likely to turn into obese adults.

"It suggests to me that parents of younger kids believe that their children will grow out of their obesity, or something will change at older ages," said Dr. Matthew M. Davis, a University of Michigan professor of pediatrics and internal medicine who led the study, released earlier this month. "When I see a child that is obese at these younger ages, I take that as a sign of ways nutrition can be improved, a child's activity level can be improved."

Among the parents whose children were either obese or extremely overweight of the age 6 to 11, 43 parents saying their children have the right weight, 37 percent accepting their kids are slightly overweight, 13 percent have no problem in accepting their children are “Very overweight” and some even saying “Slightly underweight”.

The survey found that parents of obese children from age 12 to 17 look more aware about their children weight problems. 56 percent of the parents have the opinion that their children are “slightly overweight”, 31 percent considering them “very overweight”, 11 have no hesitation in saying “very overweight” and others saying “slightly underweight”.

Michigan research is indicating that parents are underestimating their children weight. According to the standards used by the researchers, 17 percent of US children are already obese. Experts suggest that doctors need to help the children parents to understand the health risks of childhood obesity.

Colin Corfield, who is 39 years old has been able to lose 39 stones and has been enjoying his life.

Six months back, his doctor told him that he had to lose weight or he would die in the next six months. Doctors told him that there is one chance out of 20 where he could die from the surgery. But Corfield decided to go through the gastric bypass surgery.

Corfield did not have money for the surgery operation. So his mother sold her house to pay the £32,000 gastric bypass surgery operation changes.

Colin has problems with his weight right from the beginning. Even in his childhood his family saw his putting on weight and his weight problem became worse with time.

"Now I feel fantastic - I can't describe it. Now I'm down to 16 stone. "I was very, very sad at the time I was heavy. "People would say 'Col you're getting too big you've got to do something about it,' but I just wouldn't listen to them. "But I'm not sad anymore - I've got my life back. "I can go back and watch the match at Everton. I used to do it all the time before I got too big to get through the turnstile."

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Lemon can be a big friend for someone who is trying to lose weight. The Juice diet advocates a healthy diet plan based on sever principles. These are the principle upon which lemon juice diet is based (Via The Daily Mail).

In case you are able to mix these principles with your daily exercise system including 30 minutes of aerobics activity for five to six day a week, with in a week or so you will feel healthier and have the feeling of lose clothes. And within two weeks you will start losing pounds. So follow these seven principles to lose weight and to burn fat:

1. Start your morning with a lemon juice in a warm glass of water. Water plays an important role in weight loss so drink at least 8 glasses of water everyday. Keep alcohol consumption within limits and also keep tea and coffee to minimum. Stay away from fuzzy drinks and sweetened fruit juice.


2. Take five portions of fruit and vegetables every day.


3. Keep your blood sugar level healthy


4. Cut your intake of sugary goods


5. Avoid saturated fat and unsaturated fat can help you in losing weight by delaying the interval of carbohydrates into your bloodstream


6. Eat lots of whole foods


7. Chew your meals properly and eat slowly for better digestion system

Note – In case you are suffering from heartburn, kidney or gall bladder problems, or have a citrus allergy, consult your GP before going on lemon juice diet.

Welcome to the first edition of Carnival of weight loss bloggers. This is my first Carnival and I’m feeling really happy and proud to have started it. People who aren’t aware about blog carnival, a blog carnival is that when someone finds some good posts on a particular topic and then put all of those good posts in a single post called a “Carnival”. I’ll be covering some of the best recent post of some famous weight loss bloggers in this my first Carnival of weight loss bloggers. I hope you people will enjoy the covered posts here:

J. Foster from Diet Blog has a post about Keeping Santa Fat". Some people have the view that Santa is a bad role model and sets a bad example before kids.

Weight loss and Fitness news has useful tips for ex-smokers for controlling their weights. This is fact that 80 percent of people who quit smoking gain weight. None of the situation is good for us. We need to come out of both the situations i.e. of a smoker as well as being overweight.

This is the season of holidays and lots of fun with food and other stuffs. The Fatfighters has a great article about burning the extra calories during the holidays by working around, by walking and by staying active.

How about losing weight without getting hungry? Chris from Fatty Weight Loss has the view; you don't need to be hungry to lose weight. Chris has given a list of 20 food/drink items to speed up metabolism and to lower body fat percentage.

LoseWeightGroup.com has made a big list of top 50 weight loss tips including taking small meals, drinking plenty of water, counting calories, joining a gym, controlling the portion size and including more fruits, vegetables and whole grains in our daily routine.

Dr. Alan Jenks from Weightlosschronicles is telling about what is the best time to start a diet. In case you are overweight, start your weight loss diet right now and if you are slightly overweight then try to check out how much motivated you are to lose weight.

Tim from Run FatAss Run having meeting with her doctor about lap-band surgery with her doctor recommending her lap band surgery. Tim wants to give a try to her weight loss before going for her Doctor recommendations.

Diet Girl has an interesting post about Quick Batman, To The Post Office

Celebrity Diet Doctor has an interesting post about Britney Spears latest method of losing weight. Britney is struggling with her weight problems and is planning on getting liposuction

Weight loss story blog has a successful weight loss story how Jeremy was able to lose 25 pounds. It takes just four months for Jeremy to lose these 25 pounds following a simple diet plan suggested by one his coworkers.

Lady at Weight loss Guide has got big success with her weight. She was able to lose 4lbs in this week and in total lost 6 stone so far have been able to bring her dress size down to 10.

I have covered very few bloggers in my first edition of Carnival of weight loss bloggers. I’ll try to cover more weight loss, diet and fitness bloggers in my Second edition of Carnival of weight loss bloggers that will be published on 4th Jan in 2008. If you are willing to include any of your related post here in my bloggers carnival, you are always welcome. You can simply mail me or comment here on my blog describing your favorite post.

The results of a latest study shows that obese children who spend lot of time while watching TV have higher chances of being hit by high blood pressure problem compared to the obese children who spend less time with TV.

Increased psychological pressure and eating lots of junk food while watching TV could be a factor in the relationship according to principal investigator Dr. Jeffrey B. Schwimmer of the University of California, San Diego.

Dr Jeffrey and his team found that children who watch 2 to 4 hours of TV daily have 2.5 times more chances of having high blood pressure as compared to other obese that watch less TV. And the children, who watch more than 4 hours of TV daily, have more than three times of being hit by high blood pressure.

The investigators evaluated 546 children between the ages of 4 and 17 and who were going through obesity treatment. 43 percent of found to have high blood pressure problem.

To investigate this relationship, they evaluated 546 children between 4 and 17 years old who were seeking treatment for obesity. Forty-three percent had high blood pressure. Dr. Jeffrey and his team noted that children who watch more TV may also be eating saltier and fatty foods and that could result in high blood pressure.

Blood pressure is often not measured in children, and if it is measured, "it's often not done correctly," Schwimmer added. "I would encourage parents of children to raise the issue of blood pressure with their child's doctor."

A latest study indicates that the people over 60 or more who exercise and are fit live longer as compared to the people of same group with no exercise or inactive routine. The earlier research showed that obesity and inactivity can increase the risk of death in middle aged adults.

"We observed that fit individuals who were obese ... had a lower risk of all-cause mortality than did unfit, normal-weight, or lean individuals," said the study's lead author Dr Xuemei Sui. "Our data therefore suggest that fitness levels in older individuals influence the association of obesity to mortality," he added.

Physical fitness was assessed via treadmill exercise and obesity was calculated by body mass index, waist size and body fat percentage.