The fierce reputation of Spanish Legion soldiers is being put to the test: too fat, some of them have been offered a weight-loss plan to save the "prestige" of the force.
All legionnaires of this rapid reaction force -- more than 3,000 soldiers -- underwent a medical exam in September that measured their body mass index (BMI), a measure of body fat.Read more
It’s almost impossible to read through a magazine or enter a store these days without being surrounded by the latest and greatest ways to lose weight.
However, most weight-loss shortcuts are usually impermanent, can potentially cause injury and might even cause you to gain more weight than what you started with.
Here are three reasons to avoid these crazy weight-lossRead more
A medical team at King Abdullah Medical City succeeded in conducting gastric sleeve surgery on a patient weighing 265 kilograms, Al-Yaum Daily reported.
The procedure was an especially difficult one due to the patient’s weight, it was reported.
Dr. Ali Al-Montashiri, the head of the weight-loss department at King Abdullah Medical City, said a special program for such cases hadRead more