All Entries Tagged With: "obesity"
Health And Wellness – Why get fit?
There are all kinds of reasons why many of us find it hard to start exercising – our day-to-day lives require a lot less physical activity than in our grandparents’ or even parents’ day, most of us own cars and rely on them to get around, and more and more people spend hours sitting in [...]
Obese People Seem to Do Better With Heart Disease
(HealthDay News) — The excess fat that leads people to develop heart disease can help them fight against the condition’s worst effects, a review of cardiac studies shows.
It’s the “obesity paradox,” said Dr. Carl J. Lavie, medical director of cardiac rehabilitation and prevention at the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, and lead author of [...]
Child Obesity Seen as Warning of Heart Disease
A new study finds striking evidence that children who are obese or have high cholesterol show early warning signs of heart disease.
The study, presented Tuesday at the American Heart Association conference in New Orleans, found that the thickness of artery walls of children and teenagers who are obese or have high cholesterol resembled the thickness [...]
Belly Fat: Large Waistline Doubles Risk Of Early Death
Large waistline doubles risk of early death – even if you are NOT overweight
A large waistline can double the risk of premature death even in people who are not ‘officially’ overweight, an alarming study has found.
Researchers concluded that waist measurement is a much better indicator of a person’s lifespan than the traditional ‘body mass index’ [...]
Eating Whole Grains Lowers Heart Failure Risk, According To New Study
About 5 million people in the United States suffer from heart failure (HF). While some reports indicate that changes to diet can reduce HF risk, few large, prospective studies have been conducted. In a new study researchers observed over 14,000 participants for more than 13 years and found that whole grain consumption lowered HF risk, [...]
Health Benetits From Purple Tomatoes
Scientists have expressed genes from snapdragon in tomatoes to grow purple tomatoes high in health-protecting anthocyanins.
Anthocyanins are naturally occurring pigments found at particularly high levels in berries such as blackberry, cranberry and chokeberry. Scientists are investigating ways to increase the levels of health-promoting compounds in more commonly eaten fruits and vegetables.
“Most people do not eat [...]
Obesity More Harmful To Heart Than Smoking: Study
Sharon Kirkey , Canwest News Service
Heart attacks are hitting the overweight more than a decade sooner than “normal” weight people, researchers are reporting.
A study of more than 111,000 people is one of the first to put real numbers to the risk of obesity and suggests “excess adiposity” – fat tissue – is more dangerous [...]
Fat And Obesity
by L. Lee Coyne, Ph.D.
GOOD FAT / BAD FAT?
North Americans eat less fat than ever recorded in history and yet we have an obesity epidemic. According to the World Health Organization, obesity is doubling every 5 years and at the current rate everybody in North America will be obese by the year 2230.
Fat is a [...]
