| Fast Food Hits Mediterranean; a Diet Succumbs Mediterranean diet associated with longer life spans and lower rates of diabetes, heart disease and cancer is in retreat in Greece and other parts of Mediterranean; healthful diet emphasizing olive oil, fresh produce and fish has been overtaken by glut of fast food; experts say changing diet has produced epidemic of obesity and other related maladies; two-thirds of Greek children are now overweight; photo; map; chart query.nytimes.com |
Obesity May Play A Role In Erectile Dysfunction A new study may be an important motivational tool for obese men to lose weight! According to a study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine, obese men with erectile dysfunction (ED) are shown to have low levels of hormones, such as testosterone. A correlation between certain conditions associated with obesity, particularly hypertension, are the most important determinants of obesity-related ED. medicalnewstoday.com |
Cold And Brown Fat Raise The Prospect Of A New Method Of Treating Obesity Sven Enerbäck, Professor at the Institute of Biomedicine at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is one of the scientists who published their results in The New England Journal of Medicine this week. Studies carried out by Enerbäck and others show that adults use brown fat to convert energy to heat - a discovery that may provide new possibilities in treating overweight and obesity. medicalnewstoday.com |
New Book Examines Weighty Issue Obesity -- that never-ending "battle of the bulge"-- dates back to the Stone Age and yet is emerging today as a modern health epidemic. While its root cause is as simple as calories consumed versus calories burned, it's cure is knotted somewhere in a complex web of biology, psychology and culture. medicalnewstoday.com |
Blood Clot Risk Higher In Apple-Shaped Men And Pear-Shaped Women, Danish Study New research from Denmark suggests that where middle-aged men and women carry excess body fat affects their risk of developing blood clots like deep vein thrombosis (DVT) , with apple-shaped men who carry excess fat mainly around the waist and pear-shaped women who carry excess fat mainly around the hips having the highest risk. medicalnewstoday.com |