TOP 100 WEIGHT LOSS SITES
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| Just One Session Of Exercise Can Improve Metabolic Health In Overweight Patients With Insulin Sensitivity One out of every three Americans is obese. These individuals are at greater risk for additional diseases, since obesity leads to other health problems, such as diabetes. Obesity-related complications are associated with an abnormal fat metabolism in the muscle. As a result, accumulated fat by-products inside the muscle affect insulin resistance. To avoid the build up of fat by-products, fat must either be oxidized (burned, as in exercise) or stored (as benign fat) in muscle. medicalnewstoday.com |
India: 9 Flight Attendants Fired After Being Called Overweight India’s national airline has fired nine flight attendants for being overweight, an official said Tuesday. nytimes.com |
Radiologists Can Now Significantly Lower The Radiation Dose Delivered By Cardiac CT In Non-Obese Patients Radiologists can now lower the radiation dose delivered by cardiac CT angiography by 39% in adult patients weighing 185 pounds or less, according to a study performed at the University of Erlangen in Erlangen, Germany. The study included one hundred patients, weighing 185 pounds or less, who underwent cardiac CT angiography either using a tube voltage of 120 kV or 100 kV. Results showed that the effective radiation dose for patients scanned with 120 kV ranged from 8.8 to 16. medicalnewstoday.com |
People Who Bike Or Walk To Work Are More Fit, Less Fat Than Drivers Trying to get fit but can't work it into your daily schedule? Incorporating even relatively short bouts of exercise into a daily commute appears to deliver significant rewards, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Researchers looked at the health and fitness levels of active commuters people who walk or ride a bike to work at least part of the way compared to those who drive or take public transportation. medicalnewstoday.com |
New Study Will Examine Weight-Gain Limits For Obese Pregnant Women A new clinical trial at Kaiser Permanente will consider whether obese pregnant women need to gain a minimum amount of weight during their pregnancies, as the Institute of Medicine currently advises, USA Today reports. medicalnewstoday.com |