Mammograms may be overused in women with dementia
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Some elderly women with severe cognitive impairment are getting mammography breast cancer screening even though they are unlikely to ever benefit from it, a new study finds.
Researchers found that among more than 2,100 U.S. women age 70 and older, 18 percent of those with advanced cognitive impairment had received a screening mammogram in the past two years.
This was despite the fact that these women would likely fall into a group that, according to guidelines, should not routinely have mammography screening.
Michelle Obama makes obesity campaign personal
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First lady Michelle Obama framed her national campaign against childhood obesity in intensely personal terms Thursday, relating that her own daughters were starting to get off-track before the family’s pediatrician gave her a wake-up call and warned her to watch it.
“In my eyes, I thought my children were perfect,” the first lady said. “I didn’t see the changes.”
But the family’s pediatrician, she said, kept a close eye on trends in African-American children and “warned that he was concerned that something was getting off-balance.” The doctor “cautioned me that I had to take a look at my own children’s BMI,” or body mass index, the first lady said.
Can intervention prevent adult obesity for overweight teens?
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Paris Woods is hardly a poster child for the obesity epidemic. Lining up dripping wet with kids on her swim team, she’s a blend of girlish chunkiness and womanly curves.
In street clothes — roomy pink sweats or skimpy tank tops revealing broad, brown swimmers’ shoulders — the teen blends in with her friends, a fresh-faced, robust-looking All-American girl.
That’s the problem.
Like nearly one-third of American teens, Paris Woods is overweight. Her doctor worries her weight will creep up into the obesity range. One out of four black girls her age is obese.
Michelle Obama asks mayors to help reduce obesity
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First lady Michelle Obama is asking mayors to help reduce childhood obesity.
In a speech Wednesday to the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, Mrs. Obama said mayors are among the first to see what’s happening to the people they serve.
Government figures show that almost one in three children are overweight, and 17 percent are obese.
Michelle Obama makes obesity campaign personal
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Campaigning against childhood obesity, first lady Michelle Obama says she knows firsthand how tough it can be for stressed parents to fix their kids’ bad eating and exercise habits.
The first lady said her own daughters were starting to get off-track before their pediatrician warned her to watch it. She says the family turned things around by cutting out weekday TV time, paying more attention to portion sizes and sneaking more fruits and vegetables onto the table.
Competitive sports tied to teens’ back pain
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Years of competitive sports may raise teenagers’ risk of developing lower back pain, a new study finds.
The study, of nearly 4,700 18-year-old college students, found that those who had been involved in sports since elementary school had higher rates of low back pain than their less-competitive peers.
Overall, 72 percent reported ever having had a bout of back pain, compared with 62 percent of those who had spent fewer years playing sports, and half of students who had never been involved in competitive sports.
Causes of obesity
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Obesity denotes excessive body weight, which itself is a hazard. However, obesity is not an individual problem but has different related causes. It is important to understand the causes of obesity because the consciousness about the triggering causes is the best rational way to prevent this threatening disease from becoming induced in body.
The causes of obesity are called as risk factors for obesity because in some instances obesity may have fatal effect on body.
Family history has a recurring impact on inducing obesity on the next generation of family. This general trend is termed as genetic factor of obesity, assuming the fact that same family members more or less share same life style and diet. Even scientific research also has established a direct link between heredity and obesity.
Environment is one of the major triggering factors of obesity. It includes several factors in its range like life style behaviors, physical activity level, regular diet, eating pattern, and other intriguing factors which are unhealthy in long-term –effect. In general, it has been found that environment induces healthy or unhealthy habit in an individual, and thus environmental factors play a major role in triggering or preventing obesity.
