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Obesity may cause frailties in elderly women

...e a body mass index of above 30 will be// known as obese and this may add to their woes more, apart from other health problems, as researchers have been able to relate obesity in elderly women to heightened risk of falling and hurting themselves, and other physiological vulnerabilities. Frailty is a condi...

PET Scan find the Area of Brain Responsible for Anorexia Nervosa

...of these dopamine receptors in both people who are obese and those who have substance use problems, researchers Dr.Kaye and Frank hypothesized that they would find just the opposite in women with anorexia. The researchers also found increased dopamine D2/D3 receptor activity in another part of the basal g...

Weight Loss Relieves Osteoarthritis Pain

... weight reduction of 5 percent in overweight and obese older patients brought an 18 percent gain in overall function . Three kinds of groups were formed based on a regime of diet only, exercise only or a combination of healthy habits. The abstract written on the above study, states that for every one p...

Genetics Has A Major Role To Play In Body Shape.

...story of obesity increases you chances of becoming obese by about 25 to 30 percent. Don’t fret! Heredity doesn't destine you to be fat. But by influencing the amount of body fat and fat distribution, genes can make you more susceptible to gaining weight. ...

Weight loss supplements harm the body

...tabolic conditions. These in turn prove harmful to obese people with already have high blood pressure, clogged arteries, or glucose intolerance. Therefore ephedra and guarana could worsen obesity-related conditions such as insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, according to the study. Source: Clinical...

Obesity in Children may be linked to the obesity gene.

... the Imperial College of London, Britain recruited obese children aged between 5 and 11 years. The study was conducted in the genes of children’s from 1,225 obese children and 1,205 normal weighed children. The results of the study showed that obesity is mostly i...

Yoga for preventing weight gain in middle age

...or more years can lead to arrest of weight gain in obese people in their middle ages. Researchers had look... practice yoga. The effect of yoga was the most on obese people of this age group. In the span of ten years, obese people of the age group had lost about 10 ...

Obesity Can Increase The Chances Of Injuries

Extremely obese people are more likely to be injured than the peop...dy on the subject says about one out of every four obese people report personal injuries in men and about one out of every five obese women report the same. ...

Weighty problem: Protein is the solution?

...s would be administration of high protein diets to obese subjects. True? Well the answer depends on the adverse effects of such a recommendation. Should the obese increase the protein intake from 10 to 20 percent of calories to 20 to 30 percent? According to re...

Dairy Products Reduce Risk Of Type 2 Diabetes In Men

...ked to the insulin resistance syndrome among young obese adults. Hyon K. Choi and colleagues at Harvard University found that dairy intake may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes in men in a new study. The study followed 41,254 male participants who had no history of diabetes, cardiovascular disease or can...

Size Of The Waist In Children Linked To Diabetes

... evaluated (44 girls), 28 were overweight, 40 were obese and 16 were normal weight. Statistical analysis showed that waist circumference was an independent predictor for elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance and elevated high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level. There was a significant correlation...

Unpleasant Memory of Food could Be Used to Treat Obesity

...btful that psychologists could ethically use it on obese patients without their consent, but Loftus suggest...vulnerable. Eighty percent of the offspring of two obese parents become obese. For further information read: http://www.medindia.com/patients/ patienti...

Obesity More Likely to Cause Disability than Death in Elderly

...does have significant impact on the chances of the obese elderly becoming disabled. Research had said that...is, however, significantly shorter for the elderly obese and disabled life expectancy significantly longer. Reynolds and her co-authors found it more likely...

Obesity better handled with gastric bypass surgery

...at is becoming increasingly popular among morbidly obese Americans. The acclaimed soprano and opera singer, Deborah Voigt, also lost 50 kg after she underwent a gastric bypass in the US, an operation that reduces the stomach to the size of a pouch that can hold 30 to 60 ml. The procedure also places a by...

With More Appearance Conscious Consumers The Need For Slimming Products Is Rapidly Rising

...reference for self-indulgence products. In 2004, obese people represented around 15 per cent of the Belgi...8 per cent of the female population was considered obese while 47 per cent were overweight. The growing concern about the dangers of obesity and overweight w...

Scientists crack mechanism of Leptin-Obesity Hormone

... also be developed to reverse leptin resistance in obese individuals, Dr. Low said. In may cases obesity associated with a resistance to the effects of leptin in the same way that type 2 diabetes is caused by a resistance to the hormone insulin.// Dr.Low said that his team found in mice, leptin ac...

Fat Cell Protein Hits Type-2 Diabetes

...ls--- and made less abundantly in the fat cells of obese people and animals -- that significantly affects i...crease or decrease in fat cell size, as happens in obese humans, might cause severe hepatic (liver) insulin resistance because less of a hormone-like protein...

Pancreatic cancer risk

...sical activity seems to reduce the risk even among obese individuals,says Dr. Dominique S. Michaud the head person of the research. Dr. Michaud from the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Maryland and colleagues collected data from two large cohorts: 36,648 men, 40 to 75 years of age, who participat...

Eating healthy is cost effective

...d colleagues studied 30 families with at least one obese 8- to 12-year-old child. The families were put on a Traffic Light Diet, in which foods are classified on the basis of nutrient content. The diet encourages consumption of high-nutrient, low-fat "green" foods, including most fruits and vegetables, and...

New combined therapy for Knee Joint pain

...w that among people affected with knee joint pain, obese people are in the majority. We have to consider many factors before we can be definite about the reasons for the knee pain. //Majority of the people are affected by Osteoarthritis. It is explained below briefly. The basic sturcture of knee joint is ...

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