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Why the recession is good for the vitamins and fitness market
in Sox First, on October 31, 2009
...e the one reported here , that during a downturn, we exercise more and are less likely to be obese. Of course, the problem with this is that the longer the recession continues, the more likely we ar...
Ambulances charge more for obese
in Sox First, on October 25, 2009
...health care system is truly screwed with reports that ambulances are jacking up fees to take the obese. The ambulance companies say transporting fat people costs 2.5 times more than normal, requiri...
Seen that? - Prohibited to exercise
in Daily Power Walk, on October 21, 2009
..., Marcus Miranda As reported in the July 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, overweight and obese women may need to exercise 55 minutes a day for five days per week to sustain a weight loss of...
Littman Bluetooth Stethoscope is the Tech I Expect my Doctor to Have
in The Gadgets Weblog, on August 28, 2009
...s your doctor to hear up to 38% better. It also has active noise amplification which will help with obese patients or with patients that have a feint heartbeat. These are the patients that that a doct...
Health care reform and a fat tax
in Sox First, on August 16, 2009
...cause, as this report says, obesity is the elephant in the room. One in three adult Americans are obese, as are one in six children, and if that trend continues, 40% of adult Americans will be obese...
Stressed-out and Gaining Weight? Find Out Why.
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 29, 2009
...findings reported at the American Journal of Epidemiology :
Men who were already overweight or obese tended to pack on pounds over the years if they had job-related stress or difficulty paying the...
Look After YOur Man This Fathers' Day
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 18, 2009
...ould take care of the men in our lives:
Men are more likely than women...
to be overweight or obese
to have diabetes or heart disease
to smoke, binge drink, or engage in other unhealthful beh...
Could Childhod Obesity Be Declining?
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 16, 2009
...overweight children has grown at an alarming rate, with 1 out of 3 kids considered overweight or obese .
Clearly, the economy could be playing a big part in these trends. Families may not be eati...
Obese Pregnant Women Should Not Gain Weight
in Next Nine Months, on May 31, 2009
..., pregnant women are advised to gain between 26-35 pounds during pregnancy, and about 15 pounds for obese women.
However, in a recent study of obese pregnant women with a body mass index of 30 or gre...
NutriSystem D: New Weight Loss Hope for People with Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on April 23, 2009
... the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University School of Medicine followed 68 obese people with Type 2 diabetes for a total of six months, putting half on the NutriSystem D progra...
Tips For Following Mrs. Obama's Healthy Footsteps
in Straightfromthedoc, on March 19, 2009
... Two-thirds of Americans are overweight and almost one-third of Americans are obese. With these startling statistics, it is clear why US First Lady Michelle Obama has made it a priority on her agen...
Three Genes Linked to Obesity Identified
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 24, 2009
...ssor in the Department of Human Genetics and Endocrinology. "This includes children who become obese at a young age, before the age of six. We also studied the genomes of adults who had a fam...
Women, Weaker Sex In Hunger Control?
in Well Woman Blog, on January 23, 2009
...tion and desire to eat]."
Does the above finding suggests that women are more likely to stay obese than men when both go on a diet? Maybe. But I guess women just gotta have to work harder in or...
Diabetes Linked to Air Pollution
in Daily Diabetic, on January 19, 2009
...etes," says Dr. Rajagopalan.
Why is this discovery so important?
One in three Americans is obese
One in six live in a city with poor air quality.
Current cases of diabetes are expected to dou...
New Year, Diabetes and Low T
in Daily Diabetic, on January 9, 2009
...exual dysfunction , fatigue and muscle loss). As you may know, men with Type 2 diabetes or who are obese are more than twice as likely to also have low testosterone compared to men without these dise...
Vivus Obesity Drug Works?
in Well Woman Blog, on December 15, 2008
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Vivus Inc. - the maker of the obesity drug Qnexa - has reported that obese patients treated with the highest dose of its experimental drug Qnexa on average lost 9.2 perc...
Vermont is Healthiest State
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 3, 2008
... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Ugur Evirgen
Mississipi used to be the most obese State in the U.S. Now it has been trumped by Louisiana while Vermont is now called the healthiest state based o...
Diabetes and Your Pet
in Daily Diabetic, on November 6, 2008
... in pets is weight, with approximately 25 percent of all cats and dogs now classified as clinically obese.
The key, however, is early detection and treatment. Common signs and symptoms for pet owners...
Blood Triglyceride Levels May Predict Obesity
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 31, 2008
...h in fat over the next four weeks.
The researchers were able to predict which animals would become obese over the four-week period by examining the earlier metabolic response to the high-fat meal: th...
Diabetes May Be Reversed From The Fat Cells
in Daily Diabetic, on October 8, 2008
... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Brandon Laufenberg
Insulin resistance in obese laboratory mice has been rapidly reversed by University of California San Diego researchers by killing off &quo...
Gut Microorganisms May Help Prevent Onset of Diabetes
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 22, 2008
...e to certain non-pathogenic gut microorganisms helped prevent the onset of Type I diabetes in non-obese diabetic mice. From the report :
Non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice develop the disease at diffe...
Young Men With Type 2 Diabetes, Suffer From Low Testosterone Level
in Daily Diabetic, on August 31, 2008
...ition, these patients may gain more weight (with an average body mass index of 38 they already were obese) and become more insulin resistant.
Also, patients with low testosterone and type 2 diabetes ...
Chronic Ear Infections Linked To Increased Obesity
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 15, 2008
...ed that those with a moderate to severe history of otitis media were 62 percent more likely to be obese.
John Hayes of Brown University and his collaborators at the university of connecticut f...
Current Exercise Recommendations, Weight Loss and Overweight Women
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 28, 2008
...us Miranda
As reported in the July 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine , overweight and obese women may need to exercise 55 minutes a day for five days per week to sustain a weight lo...
CDC: Mississipi Remains Most Obese State
in Daily Diabetic, on July 17, 2008
...er at the BPL
So here's the verdict: according to the CDC ... Mississipi remains the most obese state in the U.S. !
The South tips the scales again as the nation's fattest region, accor...
Obesity in Men Contribute to Infertility
in Next Nine Months, on July 15, 2008
...iscussing how a man's age affects his fertility comes another research study indicating that obese men may have difficulty in fathering a child , too.
The analysis showed that the men in Group...
Turmeric, Diabetes and Obesity
in Daily Diabetic, on June 21, 2008
...glucose levels, and glucose and insulin tolerance tests. T
They also discovered that turmeric-fed obese mice showed significantly reduced inflammation in fat tissue and liver compared to controls. Th...
Uebergewicht, Adipositas - Insulin steuert im Gehirn, neues Forschungsergebnis
in Das Gesundheits-Weblog, on 13.06.08
...eten der Ernährungswissenschaft und Ernährungsmedizin.
Titel der Arbeit: "Obese men respond to cognitive but not to catabolic brain insulin signaling", veröffentlicht im International Journ...
Super Thin Gadgets Are Living Large - Voodoo Envy 133 Joins the Party
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 11, 2008
... processor that its slighty chubby cousin the MacBook Air does which makes it a tad faster than the obese ThinkPad X300.
The VoodooEnvy 133 will cost you $2,099 and will be available soon.
S...
The importance of founders for start-ups
in TJ's Weblog, on May 28, 2008
...ave a 1.7% chance of dying less than a decade into their company's formation. That might sound morbidly high for twentysomethings in Silicon Valley, but the majority of Hyde's Norwegian entrep...
Overweight People, More Likely to Have Allergies and Asthma
in Allergies, on March 19, 2008
... likely to get allergies and asthma .
Dr. Deborah Gentile found that blood tests of overweight and obese patients with seasonal allergies had triple the levels of inflammatory proteins as normal weig...
Uganda is Making Diabetes Drug
in Daily Diabetic, on March 17, 2008
...r in the blood. The drug also helps reduce the weight of diabetics, 80 per cent of whom are usually obese.
Formin also reduces diabetes-related mortality by 42 per cent in obese patients. The drug, p...
Modified Atkins Diet Against Adult Epileptic Seizures
in Straightfromthedoc, on February 9, 2008
...? It is a (once?)popular low-carb, high protein diet fad which was first intended to the clinically obese, needing drastic weight loss. But then, anything in the modern world becomes a fad. Even the n...
Overworked, overweight
in Sox First, on January 25, 2008
Governments and businesses are now looking at various incentives and penalties for employees to lose weight. but all of these are problematic and simplistic. There is no quick fix to this complex problem. The latest is the British Government's plan to offer fat people cash incentives to lo...
'Laziness' of Regulatory T-cells, Lead to Type 1 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on January 18, 2008
...sponses to microbes, tumors, allergens and transplants."
The said study was conducted on non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice, which were genetically engineered to model human diabetes.
Findings are ...
Plump Moms Have Smarter Kids
in Next Nine Months, on January 15, 2008
... development) deposited on the mother's hip fats.
So yes, being a little plump is fine. Being obese, however, is not ....
(Pro3)GIP Injections May reverse Obesity and Diabetes
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 7, 2008
...IP, a peptide hormone secreted in response to food. Previous studies indicate that patients who are obese with diabetes often have elevated circulating GIP concentrations.
In a study published recent...
Obese Mom, Obese Baby
in Next Nine Months, on January 7, 2008
... Results from a recent animal study indicate that children whose moms were obese during the time they conceived were more likely to have the tendency to be obese, too . It may be that the babies ar...
Is Losing Weight Your New Year's Resolution?
in Daily Diabetic, on December 30, 2007
... weight.
Ready to set that goal? Read on from ADA .
Even if you aren't diabetic, if you are obese, losing weight is good for your health as well....
Obesity Reduces Fertility
in Next Nine Months, on December 12, 2007
... of pregnancy was reduced by four per cent compared to women with a BMI between 21-29 kg/m2. Very obese women (BMI 35-40) had a probability of pregnancy that was between 26 and 43 per cent lower tha...
Vitamin B Deficient Pregnant Moms May Increase Risk of Diabetes in Babies
in Daily Diabetic, on November 23, 2007
...e.
Scientists say there is a greater chance of these sheep developing Type 2 diabetes and becoming obese, and they are more at risk of heart disease.
Essential for the synthesis of red blood cells ...
Interesting Diabetes Links
in Daily Diabetic, on November 12, 2007
...onin receptors in the brain has been found to improve glucose tolerance and lower insulin levels in obese and diabetic mice.
The findings suggest a new strategy for treating type 2 diabetes via targ...
Serotonin Receptors, Potential Target for Diabetes and Obesity Drugs?
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 8, 2007
...onin receptors in the brain has been found to improve glucose tolerance and lower insulin levels in obese and diabetic mice. The findings suggest a new strategy for treating type 2 diabetes via target...
Don't Diet
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 24, 2007
...e you fat.
Obesity is now classified as a pandemic, with over half of the world population either obese or overweight - with the exception of east Asia. Think about that for a second. Doesn't t...
Most U.S. States Failing National Health Goals
in Well Woman Blog, on October 24, 2007
...ost disturbing. Mississippi has the highest obesity rates, with 31.5 percent of women classified as obese. West Virginia is a close second with 30.2 percent of women considered obese.
"The nati...
Hormone Leptin Has Potential Role in Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on October 5, 2007
... and its role in beta cells independent of its effects in the brain.
It is currently not known why obese individuals exhibit a high incidence of diabetes despite high levels of both insulin and lepti...
Metformin May Later Improve Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Insulin Resistance
in Daily Diabetic, on September 13, 2007
...uibb .
Now, metformin can potentially result in successful pregnancy outcomes in women who are obese and have type 2 diabetes or have a family history of type 2 diabetes.
Such were the findings ...
Osteopontin is Why Obesity Lead to Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on September 12, 2007
...d to type 2 diabetes.
According to this mice study, although mice lacking osteopontin became obese when fed a high-fat diet, they did not become as insulin resistant as normal mice fed t...
Gene Controlling Fat Accumulation Identified
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 5, 2007
...arious combinations of the gene's variants lead to a range of body types from slim to medium to obese.
Source: UT Southwestern ...
Adinopectin: The Secret Hormone in Type 2 Diabetes?
in Daily Diabetic, on August 31, 2007
...fat can lead to inflammation, diabetes and heart disease.
This dichotomy helps explain why not all obese people are diabetic.
The message isn't that it's good to be obese, but that expanded ...
Gestational diabetes and obesity in children
in The Parenting Weblog, on August 29, 2007
...reated gestational diabetes has an 82-89% probability of risking children of becoming overweight or obese. Because the mother's high blood sugar level disrupts the development of the child's m...
Infection of the Human Adenovirus-36 May Contribute to Obesity
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 22, 2007
...l develop obesity. We would ultimately like to identify the underlying factors that predispose some obese people to develop this virus and eventually find a way to treat it."
Are we supposed to...
On Junk Food, Pregnancy and Breastfeeding and Obese Offspring
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 19, 2007
[ Doritos Tortilla Chips, Nacho, 2.75-Ounce Bags (Pack of 36) ]
Pregnant and breastfeeding women maybe "eating for two" but should avoid fatty, sugary and salty foods because by doing so they may be putting their children at risk of overeating and obesity.
Such were the findings of a ...
Structural Birth Defects Linked to Obese Mothers
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 14, 2007
... Overweight and obese women are at high risk of chronic diseases, infertility, irregular menstruation and complications during pregnancy.
But still it is surprising to find that babies born with s...
Less fat, fatter kids
in Daily Power Walk, on August 10, 2007
As we have become so aware of obesity, we try to protect our kids against it. We tell our kids not to eat fatty foods and we watch over them and guide them.
But the truth of the matter is that we might be doing more harm than good. It's good to teach your kids to lead a healthy life, but a...
Unhealthy Lifestyle Fuels Increasing Cancer Rates
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 9, 2007
...e last 10 years womb cancer rates have increased by over 20 per cent. Higher risk in overweight and obese women.
Rates of kidney cancer have increased by more than 10 per cent over the past decade -...
Efalizumab (Raptiva®), Safe and Effective in Treatment of Heavy Psoriasis Patients
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 6, 2007
...nd Chairman, Department of Dermatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine :
"Overweight and obese psoriasis patients have a higher unmet need than typical psoriasis patients and present unique ...
Will you be fat by 2015?
in Daily Power Walk, on July 21, 2007
...a lot higher than it is today? Actually not, only 11%.
66% of the US population are overweight or obese today!
But of course it is not only the U.S that is growing their waistline and getting bigg...
Lose Weight Better with Lentils
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 19, 2007
...c Review :
"Low glycaemic index diets appear to be particularly effective for people who are obese. It may be easier to adhere to a low glycaemic index diet than a conventional weight loss diet...
RBP4: Protein in Blood, Possible Biomarker of Visceral Fat
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 13, 2007
...mpared to the subcutaneous fat that lies just beneath the skin) was found in high concentrations in obese individuals as compared to those with normal weight.
According to Matthias Blüher of ...
A rubber pill
in Daily Power Walk, on June 29, 2007
...being tested and does not even have a name yet.
While I understand this could mean good news for obese people there is also a danger in people taking the pill and forgetting to eat properly which in ...
What You Drink Affects Both Your Health And Your Weight - Got Milk?
in Latina Viva, on June 29, 2007
...ers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is estimated that 1/3 of Hispanics are considered obese . While most strategies to address our widening waistlines focus on changing what we put on ou...
Gut Health May Suffer With Low-Carb Diet
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 21, 2007
...s diet ) will lead to a poor gut health because certain types of bacteria in athe stomachs of obese men may be adversely affected.
Raising concerns about the impact of the prolonged use of very...
Trimming off the truth
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 19, 2007
...s a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States, and no wonder, with the world's largest obese population. I have a huge gripe with the dieting industry that I won't get into here, but ...
Mulberry Extract, Potential Anti-diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on June 18, 2007
...cessary to examine the efficacy of the extract in other population groups, including overweight and obese subjects who are more susceptible to type-2 diabetes.
Find more details from the full report...
On: Type 2 Diabetes and Your Lifestyle
in Daily Diabetic, on June 15, 2007
...rious disease, type 2 diabetes can also be a case-to-case basis. Like in the case of the extremely obese , gastric bypass surgery is gaining "popularity" as an option that not onl...
Knowing your ideal weight
in Daily Power Walk, on June 11, 2007
...cale is as follows:
Underweight: less than 18,5
Ideal Weight: 18,5-25
Overweight: 25-30
Obese: 30-40
Very obese: Higher than 40.
If you are a bit lazy and don´t want to do the calculations your self...
Obesity and Malnutrition
in Well Woman Blog, on June 10, 2007
.... According to an article in the Seattle Post Intelligencer :
There are no statistics on how many obese people may be malnourished, but doctors say they are seeing patients who are both overweight a...
Diet and Exercise for Breast Cancer
in Well Woman Blog, on June 10, 2007
...ons of fruit and vegetables a day halved the chances of dying from the disease, even if a woman was obese.
The Health Talk Breast Cancer Blog says of the diet:
Things like a diet low in fat, low i...
UK Wine Law Backlash
in Celebrate Wine, on June 8, 2007
...privacy of our own homes is a gross invasion of privacy. Telling us that we're "clinically obese" because we've got a few curves was bad enough. Telling us that we're serious alc...
