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Diabetic risk reduced by whole grains

...s for non-obese men and a 40-percent reduction for obese men who were physically active. Researchers say the cereal fiber found in whole grains such as brown rice, dark breads, whole grain cereals, and other foods helps to slow the digestion, thus slowing the release of glucose into the blood. This, in tu...

Genetic failure in cloned animals

...t probably explains why many clones die early, are obese or have other problems. Hans Scholer, director of University of Pennsylvania's Center for Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research in Philadelphia, agreed the research "supports the notion that you shouldn't clone humans." Scholer himself reported ...

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome(PCOS) linked to Diabetes

...r instance, research has shown that 40 per cent of obese women with PCOS have impaired glucose tolerance. But, this does not mean that all obese women with PCOS are diabetic. Thin women with PCOS are just as likely to develop diabetes because of...

Obesity Hormone -' Leptin' may treat Metabolic Disorder

... leptin levels rise in proportion to body fat, and obese individuals have been thought to have leptin resistance. Animal research has suggested that a lack of leptin may be involved in the development of insulin resistance, but this is the first evidence in humans that this may be the case. She said that...

Finding The Key To Weight Loss!

...ists say they are unsure whether to recommend that obese and overweigh people increase their protein intake from 10 to 20 percent of calories to 20 to 30 percent due to the potential adverse effects associated with a high protein diet. The trouble being that many of the sources of protein consists of subst...

Exposure To Greenery And Graffiti May Affect Obesity

... less to the greenery may be more likely to become obese than their counterparts living with more greenery....s high, and the likelihood of being overweight and obese was about 40% less. In contrast, for respondents whose residential environment contained high level...

Researchers Relate Arthritis And Obesity With Baby-Boomers

...er start, and have spent more of their lives in an obese state even though we’ve known that they have had better access to nutrition and information about exercise for much of their lives. Arthritis risk soared along with the obesity rates of the baby-boomers, and arthritis cases attributed to obesity ros...

Obesity, diabetes in pregnant women affects babies

... 28 : Researchers report that mother to be who are obese and have associated diabetes can have impact on the growth of their unborn babies. Researchers examined the possible link between obesity, diabetes and three adverse pregnancy outcomes // - primary caesarean delivery, pre-term birth and low birth-we...

Chitosan May Not Conclusively Help Weight Loss

...ontrolled trials that included 1,131 overweight or obese adults. Those who received chitosan had an average weight loss of almost 4 pounds more than those on placebo in the short term, and their cholesterol and blood pressure levels also decreased more than those in the placebo group. There were no side ef...

Obesity Surgery May Not Work All The Time

.... With a decade of bariatric surgery performed on obese teens and adults, data suggest that a significant number of patients fail to sustain clinically meaningful weight loss. Scientists participating in the last year’s IFT Obesity Research Summit who concluded, among other things, that identifying relia...

Obese Adults Undergo Less Medical Tests And More Vulnerable To Diseases

... examinations and mammograms are mostly painful to obese people compared to normal people. Moreover, obese adults mostly have a lower income and they have to pay more insurance money. It's possible, he sai...

Polycystic Ovary In Women May Raise Liver Disease

...revalence of NAFLD was close to two-fold higher in obese women with PCOS than normal healthy women, and at least two to three-fold fold higher than healthy lean women in several prior ultrasonographic studies of NAFLD. Women with PCOS usually have insulin resistance and metabolic disorder that is associa...

Weight loss accomplished by high carbohydrate, vegan diet

... that 40 percent of meat-eaters were overweight or obese while only 25 to 29 percent of vegetarians and vegans were. Worldwide, vegetarian populations experience lower rates of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other life-threatening diseases. A low fat, primarily vegan diet may also slow...

New Diet Sensation Insists That Carbs Are Good For Health

...s of a hit reality program in which Raz coached 20 obese people, and helped them lose a combined total of 880 pounds over a six-to-eight month period. Ironically, Raz developed her diet as a result of a scientific experiment she did to help come up with an explanation for her patients who complained that...

Obesity Linked To Deep Vein Thrombosis

...bosis (DVT). The relative risk of DVT, comparing obese patients with non-obese patients, was 2.50. The re...e females had a greater relative risk for DVT than obese males, 2.75 versus 2.02. Obesity had the greatest impact on patients aged less than 40 years, in who...

Obese Employees Increase Costs For Employers

Research had shown that for obese employees, employers incur an increased cost becau...anges from $1,370 to $2,485. The larger cost for obese women is driven, in part, by their increased frequency of absenteeism. Normal weight employees miss ...

Pediatricians Need To Talk To Parents Of Overweight Kids

...ten miss the opportunity to talk to the parents of obese children and help them identify the problem and treat // it to bring the body weight of children back to normal. Researchers feel that it’s really important that pediatricians identify overweight children during well-child visits and use that time ...

Prostate cancer recurrence attributed to obesity and rate of weight gain

...es of weight gain. Furthermore, patients who are obese at age 40 and at the time of time of diagnosis have a higher risk of recurrence. These patients are also more prone for biochemical failure, characterized by elevated PSA levels, following treatment. PSA, or prostate specific antigen, is a protein p...

Weight gain intimately linked to prostate cancer

...l failure. Of these it was found that men who were obese at the time of diagnosis were more likely to develop biochemical failure. Fast weight gainers from the age of 25 were found to have aggressive cancers sooner than slow weight gainers. "Thirty percent of men who have biochemical failure will develop ...

Physical activity to ease gastrointestinal discomfort in obese people

...s and staving off the occurrence of GI symptoms in obese people. Adopting a diet rich with fruits and vegetables and increasing physical activity are two simple ways to control weight and lead a healthier lifestyle. These findings could have valuable future implications for the treatment of both obesity ...

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