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Two Sessions Of Exercise A Week Could Help Elderly Patients

...60 to 96 years old, who suffered from loss of body mass and strength, otherwise known as sarcopenia.// The...tter balance. Additionally, the increase in muscle mass will also increase their metabolic rate, as well as their ability to climb stairs....

The Link Between Obesity And Lack Of Sleep Studied

... sleep time per 24 hours in relation to their body mass index. More than 1,000 patients completed a questionnaire that assessed demographics, medical problems, sleep habits, and sleep disorders. Based on their findings researchers say they observed that total sleep time decreased as patient BMI increased...

Being Obese Could Lead To Kidney Stone Formation

...ion of kidney stones and weight, weight gain, body mass index, and waist circumference was studied and results showed men who weighed more than 220 pounds had a 44-percent increased risk for the development of kidney stones compared to men who weighed 150 pounds. Younger women (ages 27 to 44) who weighed ...

Body Weight Found To Influence PSA Levels

...done in 2003 showed that men with the highest body mass indexes were 34-percent more likely to develop the disease than those with lower BMIs. Other studies have also shown poorer outcomes for obese men diagnosed with prostate cancer. Hence researchers believe their present study suggests one reason why ...

Calcium and Vitamin D Supplements Could Be Effective In Treating Patients With Osteoporosis

...ht loss. Patients with Crohn's disease suffer bone mass loss and bone fractures due to treatment with corticosteroids, poor nutrition, active inflammation, and calcium and vitamin D deficiencies. Researchers studied the effectiveness of the bone-building drug etidronate (Didronel) in patients with Crohn'...

Bone fracture risk reduced by drug

...of vertebral bone fractures in women with low bone mass // but not osteoporosis. 3,737 postmenopausal wome... risk of vertebral factures in women with low bone mass who do not meet the bone mineral density criterion for osteoporosis....

FDA Approves New Osteoporosis Drug

...en after menopause. The drug may increase the bone mass by slowing the bone degeneration in women who take it. However the drug need to be taken under medical practitioner’s guidance and may not work if the treatment is stopped. ...

Raw Food Eating Leads To Low Bone Density

...maintain a diet like this have a healthy mean body mass index of 20.5, when compared to people on a normal...earchers are of the opinion that although low bone mass may lead to clinical conditions like osteoporosis, the test results of the 18 volunteers of raw food...

Supplement Of CLA May Reduce Body Fat

...ody mass, bone mineral mass, body weight, and body mass index. The CLA supplement was given in the triglyc...HDL cholestrol. There was a reduction in body fat mass and body weight in the subjects who were given triglycerides. This proves that CLA supplementation...

Obese people can be hypertensive as well

...issippi Medical Center US have found out that body mass index are positively// related to hypertension and...ing of systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Body mass index could be significantly related to mean daytime and nighttime systolic and diastolic blood pres...

Breast cancer is associated to consuming food with high glycemic index

...to food intake may not be modified by correct body mass index and physical activity, or even the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for postmenopausal women. However, associations between the risk of breast cancer and high GI value food may be slightly stronger for women with no physical activity am...

Waistline can be a good predictor of diabetes

...populations aged from 18 to 72 years and with body mass index of 18 to 60, were related to the waist circumference that measured from 65 to 150cms. Records were taken for height, weight, and waist and hip as was taken from blood samples to determine insulin sensitivity. The results proved that waistlin...

Your headache can stem from your body weight

...In a study that had measured the influence of body mass //index on frequency, and severity of headaches, t...of people into five groups according to their body mass index. 67% of the respondents were female and the average age of the people who participated in the ...

Obesity may be from weight gained by the newborn

... 32 years to understand their body weight and body mass index. Of these 653 people, almost 32% of them are overweight as adults. For these adults, the period of weight gain from birth to eight days were found to be associated with the obesity of adulthood. Similar kind of association of weight gain in the...

Obesity can lead to knee damage

...rs most of the load in the knee joint. As the body mass index increases the chances of a knee damage also rises. The overweight people with a BMI of more than 25 are three tiomes more likely to have a knee ligament tear than people with normal BMI (20 or more), while those who are overweight, with BMI mor...

Lowering cholesterol with vegetables in your diet

...ns were 3.3 to 4.8 mmol/L (130 to 190 mg/dL), body mass index of less than 31 kg/ m2 noted before the study. All of them were of general good health. The diet plan, which continued for four weeks, the low-fat-vegetables-diet had a positive effect on the health by reducing more of both total cholesterol a...

Midlife obesity linked to risk of dementia

...more risk of dementia than people with normal body mass index (BMI). For people who are overweight with BMI being between 25 to 29, the chances of having dementia is about 35% more than those within the normal BMI range. The results were taken after catering for adjustment due to age, sex, race, education...

Eating wrong foods may cause heartburns at night

...tionnaire. The results brought out increased body mass index (BMI), carbonated soft drink consumption, insomnia, hypertension, asthma, snoring and daytime sleepiness, and usage of benzodiazepines to be certain predictors of heartburn during sleep. This may mean that people with sleep apnea or sleeping di...

Birth weight and adult body weight increases heart disease

...ted to birth weight. Women who have a higher body mass index have more chance of having a coronary heart disease if they were of low birth weight as newborns. However, risk of stroke increasing with lesser birth weights are same for all weight levels for women in their adult life, saying that there exits...

Does overweight cause behavioral problems?

...ems increased corresponding to an increase in body mass index in females at age 14. The study reported that in prospective analyses, there was no association between being overweight at age 5 and behavioural problems at age 14 in either sex in children with no behavioural problems at age 5. Also overwei...

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