SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Everyone should know that best way to stay fit is a healthy, balanced diet and regular exercise, so it’s no surprise that medical experts are critical of the Korean frenzy over the high-fat low-carb diet. The diet’s popularity has skyrocketed since MBC’s TV program The False Charges on Fat [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Society for the Study of Obesity (KOSSO) has dismissed recent claims by certain medical experts that the current BMI standard for obesity is too strict and needs to be adjusted, saying that there is no academic basis to support the assertions. KOSSO representatives noted that easing the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The “war on obesity” is nothing new in developed countries, and Korea is also suffering from an increasingly overweight population with one in two males and one in four female adults now classified as obese. The obesity rate has also saw a steep increase in recent years, rising by [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – More than half of South Korea’s senior Army officers are either obese or overweight, many of them gaining weight with age and because of their career-related lifestyle, a study showed Monday. Based on body mass index (BMI), 34.9 percent were found to be obese while 25.9 percent were assessed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Roughly a third of adult South Koreans were overweight in 2014, with many not even trying to lose weight, government data showed Monday. The 2014 national health data by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) showed 31.5 percent of people over 19 were categorized as being [...]
The proportion of those who have a distorted body image was 18.8 percent among females and 13.4 percent among males. (Image : Pixabay) SEOUL, Nov.10 (Korea Bizwire) – Under a social atmosphere that pressures Korean girls to have slender bodies, even young girls are forcing themselves to follow strict diets. In addition to teenagers, children [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — It appears that 6 out of 10 Koreans consider that they are overweight. According to ‘The Global Consumer Recognition Report Related to Health and Wellbeing’ presented by Nielson Korea, an information analysis firm, on January 22, 60% of the 506 Korean respondents answered that they are overweight. This is [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Obesity was considered a symbol of wealth for most recorded history. Being fat meant you don’t have to engage in manual labor while being given change to gorge on plentiful food. Today, however, the total opposite is true. The poorer you are, the fatter you are likely to be. [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Year by year, fewer Koreans are regularly exercising and more Koreans become overweight. According to a health survey on some 22,000 adult men and women conducted by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 38.2 percent of respondents said they do regular exercises like walking more [...]