Slide Into Debt Could Bring Wider Waistline
Aug 8, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: MedicineNet
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FRIDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) — Obesity rates may increase along with rising financial debt, German researchers suggest.In their study, Eva Munster and her colleagues at the University of Mainz tracked the weight of more than 9,000 people.They found that while 11% of those who were not in debt were classified as obese, a full quarter of those who were in debt met the medical criteria for obesity.Writing in the early online edition of BMC Public Health, the researchers say they took into account the income of the participants, and the link between debt and obesity “was …
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Digestive Hormone Helps Regulate Your Blood Sugar
Aug 8, 2009 Author: Susan | Filed under: Wellness Resources
New research shows that a digestive hormone known as Cholecystokinin (CCK) actually signals to your brain in a way that your brain signals to your liver to stop releasing sugar into your blood – regardless of insulin levels.
CCK is typically elevated following a meal higher in protein or fat, giving a full signal. However, this research shows a new problem called CCK resistance (like insulin resistance), meaning that if you overeat fat and raise CCK too much, then this nifty way of lowering blood sugar is disrupted.
This research is interesting because it shows that something happening in your gut is directly regulating your blood sugar. This is a similar finding to that of adiponectin, meaning that a hormone produced in your fat (adiponectin) is also regulating blood sugar by helping insulin.
This type of new information …
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Freshman 15: College Weight Gain Is Real
Jul 28, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: WebMD
Jennifer Warner
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Louise Chang, MD
July 28, 2009 — Students headed off to college this fall beware: The infamous freshman 15 is for real.
A new study shows that nearly one in four freshmen gain at least 5% of their body weight, an average of about 10 pounds, during their first semester.
“Almost one quarter of students gained a significant amount of weight during their first semester of college,” researchers Heidi J. Wengreen and Cara Moncur of the department of nutrition and food sciences at Utah State University in Logan write in Nutrition Journal.
“This study provides further evidence that the transition to college life is a critical period of risk for weight gain, and college freshmen are an important target population for obesity prevention strategies.”
College Weight Gain Common
Although other studies have documented the phenomenon of the freshman 15 weight gain, researchers say few have examined the changes …
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Obesity Costs U.S. $147 Billion a Year
Jul 28, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: WebMD
Daniel J. DeNoon
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Louise Chang, MD
July 27, 2009 – Obesity costs the U.S. health care system up to $147 billion a year: An extra $1,429 per year for each obese person.
It’s not obesity itself that costs so much. It’s the bad health that comes with it, says a new study.
“The medical costs attributable to obesity are almost entirely a result of costs generated from treating the diseases obesity promotes,” lead study author Eric A. Finkelstein, PhD, director of North Carolina’s RTI Public Health Economics Program, says in a news release.
Those diseases include heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and stroke.
If nobody in the U.S. were obese, we’d spend 9% less on health care. But more than a third of us are obese — and another third of us are overweight.
That’s a scary statistic. …
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The Health And Weight Loss Benefits of Magnesium
Jul 28, 2009 Author: Susan | Filed under: LifeTipsMagnesium is an important agent in so many physiological processes that its uses as a supplement range from depression to bone, muscle, and joint strengthening to blood vessels protection. The bone, muscle, and joint part seems to be the reason for your prescription.
Recent research in France showed the role of magnesium in the regulation of thyroid hormones, insulin, estrogen, testosterone, brain chemicals such as dopamine, catecholamines, serotonin, GABA, and body’s electrolytes.
Magnesium also controls the turnover of potassium and calcium in the body so deficit of magnesium causes calcium to be lost with the urine and deposited in the kidneys, arteries, joints, brain, where it is not welcomed.
Magnesium protects the cell from poisonous metals like aluminum, mercury, lead, cadmium, beryllium and nickel, which can contribute to Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases multiple sclerosis, and learning retardation.
Magnesium glycinate is considered the preferred source of magnesium. …
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Snoozing May Help Women Shed Baby Weight
Jul 28, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: MedicineNetBy Karen Pallarito
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FRIDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) — New moms who can’t zip up their pre-pregnancy jeans might not be catching enough zzzs.Getting a good night’s sleep, in fact, may be just as important as diet and exercise for shedding baby weight.One study of new mothers found that those who slept five or fewer hours a day six months after giving birth were three times as likely to hold onto those extra pounds as were women who got seven or more hours of sleep. Short sleep duration “stood out as an independent risk factor” for weight retention, said Erica P. Gunderson, a research scientist and epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., who worked on the study.For many women, postpartum weight retention is a serious issue because it can lead to long-term weight gain. Some studies show that up to 20% of women retain at least 11 pounds at six to 18 months after giving birth, Finnish researchers reported. Lifestyle …
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Unhooking the Obesity-Diabetes Connection
Jul 28, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: MedicineNetBy Amanda Gardner
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SUNDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) — Scientists may be closer to solving a medical mystery with huge implications for personal and public health: Why obese people are prone to developing type 2 diabetes.A series of studies appearing online July 26 in Nature Medicine suggest that inflammation within the fat tissues of heavy individuals could trigger the blood sugar disease. What’s more, each of the four completely independent studies, from two continents and three countries, showed that interfering with these immune-cell processes actually reversed diabetes in mice. The long-term implications of the findings are enticing: perhaps one day a cure for type 2 diabetes, a condition that now plagues more than 23 million people in the United States alone. “This group of papers suggests that cellular immunity may regulate inflammation in fat,” said Dr. Vivian Fonseca, professor of medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center College …
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Icy Cold Water And Weight Loss
Jul 27, 2009 Author: Susan | Filed under: LifeTipsSwimming, especially in cold water, will definitely speed up the fat loss and so will drinking icy cold water. The question, however, is: how much fat you can burn using these techniques.
When you drink a 16-ounce glass of ice water, your body works to warm this amount of water from zero to 37 degrees C and in doing so, it "recruit" 17.5 Calories from your fat stores. How many fat grams will be burnt? Let’s calculate. To get rid of 456 grams of fat (1 pound,) your body should burn 3,500 Cal.
To lose these grams by the icy cold water technique, you should drink 200 16-ounce glasses of water — and, of course, keep the rest of your diet under control
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How to Maintain Your Weight After Dieting
Jul 27, 2009 Author: Mary | Filed under: Diet-Blog
Is there anything more frustrating and guilt-inducing than losing weight only to see those pounds slowly creep back on?
The long-term success rates of diets is shockingly low. Figures vary on this, but at best, about 10% of dieters manage to maintain their new, lower weight.
So, what can you do to make sure you don’t stand on the scales one day only to realise you’re back to square one?
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Overweight Postmenopausal Women are Low in Vitamin D
Jul 27, 2009 Author: Susan | Filed under: Wellness Resources
Vitamin D is emerging as an important metabolic nutrient, having a definite role in the health of stored fat – although that role has not yet been clearly defined. Nevertheless, a new study using x-ray absorptiometry measurements of total body and regional fat mass in overweight postmenopausal women without osteoporosis found that fat mass significantly increased as vitamin D levels declined.
At this point scientists haven’t figured out if it is the extra fat that is somehow lowering vitamin D or low vitamin D that is setting the stage for easier weight gain. This chicken and egg question for most people is a moot point, since just about everyone who is overweight tends to gain more weight in the winter when the risk for low vitamin D is greatest.
Supplemental vitamin D should be in the range of 1200 IU to 2000 IU for a variety of …
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