Oregon Has Lowest Childhood Obesity Rate
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It’s true that America is getting fatter and it’s starting at a younger age but I have to give it up to my home state. Despite its many months of gray and rain, cold weather and lack of vitamin D, we Oregonians have the leanest kids! More specifically, just under 10 percent are considered outright obese and these numbers fell from 2003. Unfortunately, 16 percent of America’s kids aged 10-17 years old are in the obese category – not just overweight. This is astounding to me. What’s worse is that this is a 10 percent increase since 2003.
Mississippi came in last with one-fifth of its youth (or 21.9 percent) falling into the obese range followed by Georgia at 21.3 percent and Kentucky at 21 percent.
Besides Oregon, the next best states were Wyoming at 10.2 percent, Minnesota at 11.1 percent and Washington State also at 11.1 percent.
Ellen Pompeo launches cancer prevention campaign
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Actress Ellen Pompeo, star of the TV show “Grey’s Anatomy,” is stepping beyond her surgeon’s role in the hit medical drama to encourage women to make their own health a priority to prevent cancer.
The disease affects one in three women in the United States during their lifetime. Pompeo, a new mother and the daughter of a cancer survivor, said women are vital to battling and stopping the illness.
“Cancer is something that touches everyone’s lives,” Pompeo told Reuters. “Women are busy taking care of other people. This is about choosing yourself.”
Obesity Silent Killer in India
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A new study released by the Registrar General of India indicates that obesity-related diseases have joined malnutrition as leading causes of death.
As India’s economy grows, so does the temptation for many people to eat more and do less. Tired and home late? Fatty food is just a phone call away.
Overweight, but eager to get married? Now there’s overweightshadi.com, an Indian dating site exclusively for obese people.
Is the UK’s obesity problem spiralling out of control?
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While many countries watch their financial debts mount, there is another ticking timebomb walking the streets, says obesity expert Professor Tony Leeds.
In this week’s Scrubbing Up, he warns that obesity could cost countries trillions in ill health and corrective surgery, and that for many, the problem is already so large that it’s too late for focusing on prevention.
The UK’s obesity problem has grown so much now that nearly a million obese Britons may be eligible for weight-reduction surgery. But it will take a bold government to treat them all – because the cost will exceed a staggering £9.1bn.
Obese Children Face More Bullying
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Obese children were almost twice as likely to be bullied as normal-weight children, regardless of other demographic, social, and academic factors, a multicenter study found.
The unadjusted odds ratio of being bullied for an obese child was 1.85 (95% CI 1.37 to 2.51), according to Julie C. Lumeng, MD, of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and colleagues.
And the odds ratio for bullying for an overweight child was 1.26 (95% CI 0.90 to 1.77), the investigators reported online in Pediatrics.
Obesity rate worrying military
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Seventeen-year-old Bryan Aguilar did not want to be a chubby Marine. But when he started high school a few years back, it was a real possibility.
During his sophomore year at West Ashley High School, Aguilar weighed nearly 200 pounds. That’s when he decided to fight the fat. By running, lifting weights and changing his diet, Aguilar morphed into a lean-and-mean ROTC machine. He headed to boot camp this summer after graduation.
He’s also the exception among kids in South Carolina.
Eating Breakfast Boosts Weight Loss
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If you’re skipping breakfast in an effort to slim down, it might be wise to rethink your weight-loss strategy. Studies show that folks who eat breakfast tend to be thinner and healthier than those who don’t.
In a study of nearly 3,000 individuals enrolled in the National Weight Control Registry (NWCR), 78 percent reported eating breakfast every day of the week. All NWCR subjects had maintained a weight loss of 30 pounds for at least one year. On average, the subjects had lost more than 70 pounds and kept it off for six years.
Skipping any meal — especially breakfast — seems to promote weight gain rather than weight loss, since breakfast-skippers are more likely to give in to mid-morning munchies or extra-large lunches. Either way, they typically end up consuming far more calories than if they had just eaten breakfast in the first place.
Obesity, Inactivity Increase Risk of Fibromyalgia
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Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have found a link between obesity in women and fibromyalgia, an incurable disease that causes chronic pain. The study found an increased risk for fibromyalgia in women who lead a sedentary lifestyle and have a higher body mass index (BMI).
Fibromyalgia (FM) is diagnosed when a patient suffers from chronic pain that lasts for more than three months, tender joints, headaches, unexplained fatigue and mood disturbances. Although the exact cause of FM is unknown, the risk for developing FM increases with age and is more common in women than in men.
Researchers analyzed data from nearly 16,000 women spanning 11 years.
2010 “Suntelligence: How Sun Smart is Your City?” Fact Sheet
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The American Academy of Dermatology’s (Academy) “Suntelligence: How Sun Smart is Your City?” survey polled adults in 26 U.S. cities and ranked them based on residents’ answers to a range of questions testing their knowledge, attitudes and behaviors toward preventing and detecting skin cancer.
The rankings of the 26 U.S. metropolitan cities are as follows:
No. 1 - Hartford
No. 2 - Salt Lake City
No. 3 - Denver
No. 4 - Tampa
No. 5 - Boston
No. 6 - Phoenix
No. 7 - Atlanta
No. 8 - Philadelphia
No. 9 - Portland
No. 10 - Baltimore
No. 11 - Dallas
Obesity Silent Killer in India
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A new study released by the Registrar General of India indicates that obesity-related diseases have joined malnutrition as leading causes of death.
As India’s economy grows, so does the temptation for many people to eat more and do less. Tired and home late? Fatty food is just a phone call away.
Overweight, but eager to get married? Now there’s overweightshadi.com, an Indian dating site exclusively for obese people.
