Weight Loss
Weight loss lowers hormone levels in obese kids
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A condition involving abnormally high levels of androgens (steroid hormones) known in medical circles as “hyperandrogenemia” starts early in obese children, a study shows, possibly placing them at increased risk for the metabolic syndrome—a cluster of conditions such as high blood pressure and high blood sugar levels that raise the risk of heart disease and diabetes.
The study also shows that weight loss leads to decreasing androgen levels. Weight loss is the “therapy of choice” for obese children with elevated androgen levels, said Dr. Thomas Reinehr.
Gastric Bypass: Let the Morbidly Obese Beware
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Gastric bypass surgery is on the rise, and so too are the rates of hospitalizations and early postoperative deaths related to complications.
So reported researchers in three studies published in the Oct. 19 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association.
Exercise can trim deep abdominal fat
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Couch potatoes may quickly accumulate a type of deep abdominal fat that contributes to Diabetes and other metabolic problems—but regular exercise can prevent or even reverse the process, according to researchers.
Their study of overweight, sedentary adults found that those who started working out on treadmills and stationary bikes tended to lose, or at least not add to, their stores of visceral fat—fat that accumulates around the abdominal organs.
Body mass index of healthy men compared with healthy women in the United States
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Objective:
To compare the distributions of body mass index (BMI) in relatively healthy nonsmoking men and women in the United States.
Design:
Cross-sectional national survey data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III).
Some Common Diet Tips That Really Work - and Why
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Losing weight is a national preoccupation. I challenge anyone to turn on the television or radio, surf online or open a magazine without finding an advertisement for a weight loss product or an endorsement for a new diet or eating plan. Everyone wants to be healthy and look their best, and for possibly the first time in the last half century, those two things happen to coincide. The current ideal of beauty is far closer to what’s attainable by a ‘real’ person than it has been in decades. Thanks to the recent popularity of actresses and singers who aren’t rail thin, coat hangers are out and healthy muscles and curves are in.
Fitness isn’t easy, but it is cheap
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Commissioning a luxury home is a bit outside your means, you say? Sorry, that doesn’t earn you a pass straight to the Barcalounger. Designing fitness into your nest isn’t an idea limited to the rich, say exercise experts. With a bit of ingenuity, you can make your home a fitness site on practically a pauper’s budget. Here are some ideas:
Challenge yourself vertically. Integrating fitness into your house or apartment means, first, taking advantage of features that already exist, according to Jeffrey Potteiger, professor of physical education, health and sport studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. “Remember that a StairMaster is just going up and down stairs,” he said. The challenge: Finding incentives to make you use those steps more often, such as vowing to answer every call on the upstairs phone. Cost: Nothing.
Weight loss may precede Alzheimer’s, study finds
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Some older people who inexplicably lose weight may be in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
A study of more than 800 healthy nuns, priests and monks who were slightly overweight on average showed that those who lost about one unit of body mass index a year—a little more than five pounds (2 kg) or so—had a 35 percent greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s than those with no weight change.
Changing Your Style to Lose Weight
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Most weight loss programs recommend dietary and exercise changes, often neglecting the eating style of an individual. When looking at the overall profile of weight loss seekers, there does appear to be a typical lifestyle pattern that those who have difficulty losing weight tend to fall into. Consider the following trend:
Steps To Manage Your Child??
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It is no secret that the number of obese and overweight children is a new and concerning epidemic that parents, health care professionals and teachers have to face. Physical inactivity, the rise in processed and refined foods, the increase in sugar intake and fast foods are all contributing factors that must be addressed. As our children are now showing evidence of ???adult-like disease processes??? such as type 2
diabetes, high blood pressure and depression attributed to excess weight, action must be taken immediately to start controlling this health-risk situation.
Ephedra-free diet pills may carry risks too
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Some of the weight-loss aids that have quickly emerged to replace the now-banned substance ephedra may carry risks of their own, a small study suggests.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco found that two ephedra-free diet supplements increased the heart rates of 10 healthy volunteers, and one also raised their blood pressures. These effects are similar to what has been seen with ephedra, an herbal stimulant that was banned in the U.S. last year after reports linked it to heart attacks, strokes and at least 155 deaths.
Tenuate plus diet causes 17-25 lbs weight loss after six months
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Tenuate (diethylpropion) given every day causes greater weight loss than diet alone, but giving it intermittently every other month is not according to paper on diet drugs by Dr. Lisa L. Ioannides-Demos from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
Study #1 weight loss after six months: 17.2 lbs vs 4.2 lbs
Drugs not likely to be solution to obesity
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Summer has long been a time of renewed efforts to lose excess pounds that are hard to hide under skimpy hot-weather clothing. Some people (rarely those significantly overweight) manage to shed 5 or even 10 pounds before the Fourth of July.
Having just driven from New York to Minnesota and back, at every rest stop I saw evidence of what health experts are calling a national crisis - an epidemic of obesity, especially health-robbing morbid obesity.
12 weight-loss questions
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Your personal trainer subsists on whey shakes, your sister’s sworn off dairy, and a book you picked up recommends watercress soup for Weight Loss. Is it any wonder you’re stymied about what to eat come mealtime? To ease the confusion, we rounded up top nutrition and weight-loss experts to answer the most burning questions.
Shopping and Lifestyle Tips for Healthy Weight Loss
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Don’t you wish there was an easy-to-follow practical primer to tell you all the things you should and shouldn’t do to help you lose weight? I’m not talking about food choices here - there are dozens of eating plans available. I’m referring to a simple list of do’s and don’ts that you can follow in your everyday life to make it easier to stick to your diet. Here are ten tips that I’ve found work wonders to help avoid temptation and keep me on track.
Cocaine and Weight Loss
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Cocaine is an illegal and dangerous drug - outlawed in most countries around the world. Many people speculate as to whether celebrities ever partake of the drug to induce rapid Weight Loss.
A story from New Zealand has revealed this very thing. A wealthy 51 yr-old property developer is a suspected drug dealer. He attempted to justify his actions by claiming that cocaine was helping him lose weight.
