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Study Confirms “Healthy Obesity” for Women Does Not Exist

by Loreta | Jul 16, 2018 | Obesity |

In case you are an obese woman, but without any disease like diabetes or hypertension, it will not mean you might be free of the chance for heart problems,” said lead researcher Matthias Schulze. “You still are at a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, in comparison to normal-weight in good health women.

“Schulze, who’s from the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, in Nuthetal, advised that the study can’t establish obesity caused heart issues, simply that’s there’s a correlation.

High blood pressure levels, high cholesterol and diabetes may double the amount of risk for heart attack and stroke, but because many as one-third of obese women don’t have problems with these metabolic diseases, the researchers said.

Read more… https://lowcarbmag.com/study-confirms-healthy-obesity-for-women-does-not-exist/

Higher stroke risk in young people

by Jan Michael | Sep 12, 2013 | Obesity | 0 comments

The occurrence of a stroke is usually associated with people over the age of 65. But according to a new report, young people are now at higher risk for the condition.

The consensus report, published in the journal Neurology, analyzed the recognition and management of stroke in people between 15 and 44 years of age in the US.

The analysis revealed that overall, 15% of the most common types of strokes occur in young people and adolescents, with more young people showing risk factors for strokes.

Figures showed that between 532,000 and 852,000 people between the ages of 18 and 44 in the US have had a stroke.

US hospital discharges for strokes among people between the ages of 15 and 44 increased from 23% in 1995/96 to 53% in 2007/08, dependent on age and gender of the group.

Approximately 85% of all strokes are ischemic. This means they are caused by blockages that restrict blood flow to the brain.

According to the report, the risk factors for ischemic stroke are more apparent in young people. These risks include obesity, smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol levels, smoking and congenital heart disease.

Obesity poses osteoporosis risk

by Jan Michael | Jul 31, 2013 | Obesity | 0 comments

Obesity may be a risk factor for the frail bone disease osteoporosis, a study suggests.

US researchers have discovered that some people who are overweight have hidden fat inside their bones that could make them weak and prone to fractures.

The Harvard Medical School team in Boston did body scans on 106 obese but healthy men and women.

The findings are published in the journal Radiology.

The scans reveal some people carry fat in hidden places like the liver, muscles and bone marrow as well as their belly, hips or thighs.

Dr Miriam Bredella, who carried out the work, says apple-shaped people who carry weight around their waist may be at greatest risk.

More Evidence Links BPA to Childhood Obesity

by Jan Michael | Jun 28, 2013 | Obesity, Research | 0 comments

There’s fresh evidence that the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, may play a part in childhood obesity.

BPA is a chemical that is widely used in food packaging. Government studies have shown that 92 percent of Americans have detectable levels of BPA in their bodies.

There’s intense scientific interest in BPA because it is chemically similar to the hormone estrogen, and there’s some concern that it may mimic estrogen’s effects in the body, causing harm to the brain and reproductive organs, particularly in children.

Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration formally banned BPA from baby bottles and sippy cups, though manufacturers had already stopped using it. The agency declined to ban it from other food containers, pending further research.

In a new study published online June 12 in the journal PLoS One, researchers measured BPA levels in the urine of more than 1,300 children in China and compared those levels to their body weights.

The study authors also asked the kids about other things that may influence body weight, such as how often they ate junk food, fruits and vegetables, how much exercise they got, whether their parents were overweight and how long they played video games, on average, each day.

After taking all those factors into account, the investigators found that girls aged 9 to 12 who had higher-than-average levels of BPA in their urine were about twice as likely to be obese as those with lower-than-average levels. The researchers didn’t see the same association for boys or for older girls.

Hospitals treat more ‘child obesity’

by Jan Michael | Jun 27, 2013 | Nutrition, Obesity | 0 comments

There has been a four-fold increase in the number of children and teenagers admitted to hospital for obesity-related conditions in the last decade, doctors in England and Wales warn.

In 2009, nearly 4,000 young people needed hospital treatment for problems complicated by being overweight compared with just 872 in 2000.

Rates of obesity surgery also went up, especially for teenage girls.

Doctors say the UK has the highest rate of child obesity in Western Europe.

Obesity has been linked with serious illnesses during childhood and an increased risk of developing conditions, such as type-2 diabetes, asthma and breathing difficulties during sleep.

National surveys in England suggest about three in 10 two-to-15-year-olds are overweight, while 14-20% are obese.

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A team led by Dr Sonia Saxena, of Imperial College London, analysed statistics on all NHS admissions for obesity – as a primary cause or alongside conditions that had been complicated by obesity – in hospitals in England and Wales over a 10-year period in patients aged five to 19.

Admissions were more common in girls than boys, the team reported in the journal Public Library of Science ONE.

Meanwhile, the number of cases of surgery for obesity rose from just one in 2000 to 31 in 2009, with the majority in teenage girls.

Over the whole 10-year period, a total of 20,885 young people were treated in hospital for obesity-related conditions.

Nearly three-quarters of cases involved problems complicated by being overweight, such as asthma, sleep apnoea, and pregnancy complications.

Fat Feeds Leukemia Cells According to Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

by Jan Michael | Apr 17, 2013 | Degenerative Diseases, Obesity | 0 comments

Not many people realize that apart from the physical problems, being overweight can make you more likely to suffer from ther far-reaching health problems.

Now if you as an overweight person visits your physician or doctor, they are much more likely to talk about how being overweight is bad for your heart than anything else. What they won’t tell you, maybe that’s because it’s not something widely broadcast even in the medical profession, is that being overweight means that you are more likely to suffer with cancer.

The thing is I suppose if you have a heart problem due to being overweight, well you can lose the weight and for most people their heart problems will also disappear as the weight drops off. Unfortunately that is not the same with cancer.

Here’s a fairly technical article, I must admit, from the Los Angeles Children’s’ Hospital. It should be noted, I have got quite a reputation for investigating cancers particularly as you might have guessed, in children. Not only do they have statistics to show that obese people are more likely to have cancer than lean people, they have taken their research as stage further and up to a certain point of proving that this is true.

Follow the link below to find out more.

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Study Confirms “Healthy Obesity” for Women Does Not Exist

Higher stroke risk in young people

Obesity poses osteoporosis risk

More Evidence Links BPA to Childhood Obesity

Hospitals treat more ‘child obesity’

Fat Feeds Leukemia Cells According to Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

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