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Study on obesity and heart failure

...ease in body mass index. (Body mass index is the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height i... say strategies are needed to promote optimal body weight to reduce the risk of heart failure....

Breastfed babies grow rapidly

...y breast-milk for the first year of life gain less weight than babies given at least some formula. These stu... and grew faster by 1 month, and continued to gain weight at a faster rate than their formula-fed counterparts through the third month. In an interview ,Kra...

Losing that baby fat among women

...women who gain more than the recommended amount of weight during pregnancy and or fail to shed the excess po...o say their study is the first to examine how body weight during and shortly after pregnancy impacts weight and body mass index over the long haul. No study t...

Gene block keeps mice from increasing weight

... can eat a high-fat diet without either putting on weight or developing diabetes. The gene called SCD-1 codes for a protein which the body needs to make the fatty acids found in fat tissue.//They have created a 'knockout' mouse that lacks SCD-1. Such animals can eat a rich, high-fat diet but do not put on w...

Watch your weight when pregnant

...tion. Women requiring the surgery were an average weight of 191 pounds and had an average BMI of 53, while ...as 33% . Women should take care against excessive weight gain while pregnant, to avoid unnecessary hassels.They should work to be in good shape for a normal ...

Link between birth weight and Insulin Resistance

...ccording to researchers in England, a baby's birth weight is connected to the mother's insulin resistance in...icipated in the study. Researchers found, as birth weight increased every 2.2 lbs, women had a 12% risk of being among those with the highest insulin resistan...

Tremors connected to Body Mass Index

...son's disease and Alzheimer's, are associated with weight loss, these researchers decided to measure the BMI...ergy they expend during tremors. Since progressive weight loss, particularly in the elderly, is associated with an increased risk for hip fractures and death,...

Multiple organ disease cured by genes

...dase, into the animals' liver. Treated dogs gained weight normally, compared to untreated animals, and showed none of the expected health problems. This is the first time gene therapy has been used for a disease involving multiple organs. It could replace the standard treatment - which is to give injectio...

Heart attack kills one in every 10 Indians

...d tests and also offered a 50 per cent discount on weight loss treatment....

Physiotherapy helps amputation

...en to the unaffected limb, as this has to bear the weight of the body when patient tries to ambulate. The following exercises are taught to the patients. To mention a few: 1) Exercises for all the joints a upper limb and lower limb using sand bags, dumbbells of various weights. 2) Bridging exercises. 3) ...

Less exercise doesn't help prevent osteoporosis

... The researchers obviously can't recommend gaining weight as a way of reducing osteoporosis risk. But they w...y advantages of abdominal fat. Carrying extra body weight strengthens bone by increasing the force on it. Doing vigorous exercise is another way of strengthen...

Exercise has a undeniable effect on cholesterol

...s your cholesterol profile, even in the absence of weight loss. Researchers from Duke University have shown how exercise affects the level of 'good' and 'bad' cholesterol in the body.// Cholesterol is transported throughout the body attached to protein molecules, the combination being known as lipoprotein. ...

Aggressiveness is a prime heart disease risk

... risk factors, like smoking, high cholesterol, and weight to hip ratio. They found that among the men with a high level of hostility, 5.0% experienced at least one cardiac event, such as heart attack or hospital admission, during the study. This makes hostility an even greater risk factor for heart proble...

Risk of Heart disease reduced by yoga

...hat yoga recuperates lipid profiles and helps with weight loss. Yoga also decreases the number of angina episodes, increases exercise tolerance and decreases narrowing of the arteries (coronary stenosis). Researchers feel that Given that yoga is relatively cheap, and acceptable to many people as a therapy, ...

Change in weight not a risk in healthy men

According to a new study, weight loss followed by weight gain is only a health risk in men with pre-existing disease. The health risks of obesity are now wel...

Handling plantar fasciitis

...g or running shoes are also very important. Losing weight will help too. If all else fails, over-the-counter painkillers should be effective....

Obesity risk for immobilized adults

...face increased risks for obesity and address their weight concern."....

Caffeine fights Gallstones

...women who are overweight or have experienced rapid weight loss ran a higher risk. 80,900 women were tracked over a period of two decades to compare their coffee consumption to whether they had their gall bladder removed. Researchers found 7,815 women had their gallbladders removed. The study also suggested...

Offspring's birth weight affected by father's diabetes

...n association of diabetes in fathers, to the birth weight of their offspring. In contrast to overweight children given birth by women with diabetes, children born to men with// diabetes are likely to weigh less than other children. Children born to men with diabetes weigh on an average 186 grams less than...

Weight gain following smoking cessation not linked to Leptin

...ess weight. It has been debated for long that this weight gain could be related to the hormone leptin, which...els were high during smoking periods, thus keeping weight down and after one stops smoking, the leptin levels plummet leading to weight gain. A new study by ...

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