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Obesity Doesn’t Always Guarantee Heart Disease
For a small number of obese people, those extra pounds do not condemn them to heart disease or diabetes, Dutch researchers report. For those few without other risk factors such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol, being obese doesn’t raise their risk of cardiovascular trouble. “Metabolically healthy obese persons do not have the elevated [...]
Continue reading...Obesity Can Take Toll on Sex Life
16. June 2010
Obesity is tied to reduced sexual activity and poorer sexual health, according to new research from France. The rate of unplanned pregnancy among obese women is four times that of normal-weight women, despite the former having fewer partners, the report found. For men, being obese greatly raised the odds for impotence and their risk of [...]
Continue reading...Obese Americans Get High Quality Medical Care
7. April 2010
April 6 (HealthDay News) — Countering concerns that obese Americans get second-rate health care, a new study has found no difference in the quality of medical attention they receive versus that of normal-weight patients. In fact, the quality of care for the obese may actually be higher and more aggressive than that given to normal-weight [...]
Continue reading...Turning Your Workday Into Weight Loss
2. April 2010
For decades, the office has been seen as the sedentary, do-nothing enemy of fitness — a place to sit eight hours a day and slowly pile on weight. But what if it were a big part of the solution? One expert believes it can be. In fact, in just six months, the Mayo Clinic’s Dr. [...]
Continue reading...First lady takes obesity campaign to Philly school
21. February 2010
First lady Michelle Obama says too many people across the country don’t have a grocery store nearby where they can get fresh food. Mrs. Obama visited the Fairhill Elementary School in North Philadelphia on Friday afternoon as part of her campaign to curb childhood obesity. She announced plans for more than $400 million in funding [...]
Continue reading...For obese, vaccine needle size matters
8. February 2010
Our ever-expanding waistlines may have outgrown the doctor’s needle, researchers say, in what could be another casualty of the obesity epidemic. In a new study, the researchers report that using a standard 1-inch needle to immunize obese adolescents against hepatitis B virus produced a much weaker effect than using a longer needle. “As obesity rises [...]
Continue reading...Anti-Hunger Smells Could Battle Obesity
28. December 2009
Anti-hunger aromas that make one feel full could help fight the global obesity epidemic, scientists now suggest. Everyone is familiar with scents that arouse the appetite, as well as odors that turn the stomach. But apparently molecules that make up a food’s aroma can also activate areas of the brain that trigger the feeling of [...]
Continue reading...New study sharpens focus on problems of obesity
23. December 2009
Cardiovascular disease linked to obesity may be worse than thought while health problems associated with being underweight may have been overstated, according to a study published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on Wednesday. The paper, written by doctors in Britain and Sweden, seeks to finetune a well-known tool — the body mass index (BMI) [...]
Continue reading...On-off fasting helps obese adults shed pounds
13. November 2009
Fasting every other day can help obese people lose weight, a small study hints. Even though the study participants ate whatever they wanted on their non-fasting days, they lost an average of 5.6 kilograms (about 12 pounds) after eight weeks, Dr. Krista A. Varady of the University of Illinois at Chicago and her colleagues found. [...]
Continue reading...Obesity causes 100,000 US cancers every year
6. November 2009
Obesity causes more than 100,000 incidents of cancer in the US every year, the American Institute for Cancer Research said in estimates published Friday. The group, which funds research on the link between diet and the disease, said 49 percent of endrometrial cancers, which originate in the womb, and 35 percent of esophageal cancers are [...]
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- Obesity Doesn’t Always Guarantee Heart Disease
- Obesity Can Take Toll on Sex Life
- Obese Americans Get High Quality Medical Care
- Turning Your Workday Into Weight Loss
- First lady takes obesity campaign to Philly school
- For obese, vaccine needle size matters
- Anti-Hunger Smells Could Battle Obesity
- New study sharpens focus on problems of obesity
- On-off fasting helps obese adults shed pounds
- Obesity causes 100,000 US cancers every year
22. June 2010
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