If you’re worried about heart disease risks, a broad term that’s used to describe number of conditions that affect your heart, you’re smart to keep an eye on your cholesterol numbers, as well as your blood pressure and blood sugar levels. However there’s one other risk factor, totally within your control, that [...]
It’s only since the beginning of the 20th century that a large number of new synthetic chemicals have become a part of our food supply. Increasingly people are searching for foods that are closer to nature. Unfortunately, new work out the University of Michigan finds that eating organic food diet actually [...]
As we all know, obesity is a growing issue for children. New research points an accusing finger at fructose, a sugar in food that is a major component of widely used high fructose corn syrup in soft drinks, processed foods and candy, and suggests it may cause fat cells in children to [...]
If you’ve gained weight (especially about the middle) after the age of 50 you have a significantly increased type 2 diabetes risk according to new research appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A weight gain of as little as 20 pounds tripled the risk of diabetes in study subjects. This [...]
You’ve heard the warnings about obesity health risks, most specifically abdominal fat – more and more research is finding that this is some of the most dangerous fat you can carry. It looks horrible, but worse yet, it also appears to up your risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep [...]
Lest you think carrying waist fat around the middle is strictly an American problem, a recent UK poll finds that 97% of respondents were unaware of the link between weight at the middle and increased risk of health dangers (diabetes, heart disease and cancer), even though 71% said they had just such [...]
Just ten years ago, the World Health Organization called obesity the most visible, but neglected, public health problem in the world. Today guidelines out of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) determine who is considered obese or overweight based on body mass index, a measurement that puts height and weight in [...]
Girls, yet another reason to watch your weight. Women who pack on pounds steadily over their lifetime up their risk for postmenopausal breast cancer compared to those who watch their weight according to a study just presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Earlier work [...]
New research finds that the more overweight you are, the more likely you are to have a stroke.
Using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, the team followed 13,549 middle aged (45-65 years) Americans for nearly 20 years, looking to see if ischemic stroke risk was associated with several measures of obesity; body mass [...]
Monday, February 15, 2010
You’ve read about all the health risks of obesity, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, certain cancers and even early death.
But there are surprising risks to your health from those added pounds that are not nearly as well documented.
Some recent studies have found that overweight woman…
- Might have a harder time getting health insurance, or [...]
