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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 cardiovascular risk [...]
Continue reading...Obesity Can Take Toll on Sex Life
Wednesday, June 16, 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 contracting a [...]
Continue reading...Anti-Hunger Smells Could Battle Obesity
Monday, December 28, 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 fullness. As [...]
Continue reading...Puberty May Trigger Sleep Apnea in Overweight Kids
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Among teenagers, being overweight or obese increases the risk of obstructive sleep apnea, but the same does not appear to be true for younger children, Australian researchers have found. In sleep tests conducted on 234 white children, aged 2 to 18, who were referred for evaluation of snoring and possible obstructive sleep apnea, the researchers found [...]
Continue reading...Obesity emerges as risk factor in severe flu
Sunday, July 12, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – People who are obese but otherwise healthy may be at special risk of severe complications and death from the new H1N1 swine flu virus, U.S. researchers reported on Friday. They described the cases of 10 patients at a Michigan hospital who were so ill they had to be put on ventilators. Three died. [...]
Continue reading...AMA objects to calling obesity a disability
Friday, June 19, 2009
The American Medical Association has taken action to support doctors’ ability to discuss obesity with their overweight patients. Under a new policy adopted Tuesday, the AMA formally opposes efforts by advocacy groups to define obesity as a disability. Doctors fear using that definition makes them vulnerable under disability laws to lawsuits from obese patients who don’t want [...]
Continue reading...Obesity May Dampen Response to Asthma Meds
Thursday, June 4, 2009
THURSDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) — New research suggests that obesity may not worsen asthma, as many experts have thought, but it could dampen the response to medications commonly used to manage the chronic condition. Inhaled corticosteroids are the most widely prescribed drugs to treat a burgeoning number of people with asthma, many of whom are [...]
Continue reading...Obese People Seem to Do Better With Heart Disease
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
MONDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) — The excess fat that leads people to develop heart disease can help them fight against the condition’s worst effects, a review of cardiac studies shows. It’s the “obesity paradox,” said Dr. Carl J. Lavie, medical director of cardiac rehabilitation and prevention at the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, and [...]
Continue reading...Productivity Takes a Hit From Obesity, Diabetes
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
WEDNESDAY, May 13 (HealthDay News) — Obese workers with diabetes are less productive than their normal-weight co-workers, says a U.S. study. Researchers surveyed 7,338 working adults about missed work time, reduced work effectiveness and impairment of daily activities. The results showed that people who were obese and had type 2 diabetes lost 11 percent to 15 [...]
Continue reading...Obesity becoming US civil rights issue for some
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Kate Harding has spent most of her life on one diet or another, losing weight but always gaining it back. Determined to improve her quality of life, she joined a fast-growing group of anti-dieting activists promoting overweight people’s civil rights. Launching an anti-dieting blog called Shapely Prose, Harding and other fat-acceptance advocates [...]
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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
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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