TOP 100 WEIGHT LOSS SITES
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| Being Overweight Or Obese Later In Life May Depend Upon The Characteristics Of Your Neighborhood Living in an affluent neighborhood with a higher educated population and higher valued homes may play a protective role against obesity for older men and women, according to UMDNJ researchers. However, men residing in neighborhoods with a high immigrant concentration and women living in areas with little residential turnover may be more likely to be obese, they reported. medicalnewstoday.com |
Severe Obesity Shortens Life As Much As Lifelong Smoking Researchers analyzing results from nearly 60 long term studies covering almost a million people worldwide concluded that moderate obesity, which is now common, shortens life expectancy by up to 4 years and severe obesity, which is still uncommon, shortens it by up to 10 years, which is comparable with the effects of lifelong smoking. medicalnewstoday.com |
Research Considers Lean Mass Better For Developing Bones South Dakota State University research shows that a child with leaner body mass, or muscle, builds bigger bones than a child who weighs the same but has a greater percentage of fat. "We were interested in the relative influence of lean mass, which is muscle, versus fat mass on how bone grows as kids grow," said Howard Wey, an associate professor in SDSU's College of Nursing. medicalnewstoday.com |
Narrow Window Of Opportunity To Reverse Obesity With Surgery In Teens According to a recent study of clinical characteristics of teens who underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery from 2002 until 2007, doctors may have a much narrower window of opportunity to reverse morbid obesity in teens than previously thought. The study, conducted at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, appears in the current online edition of the Journal of Pediatrics. medicalnewstoday.com |
Behavior: Too Much Sitting Shortens Lives, Study Suggests Research in Australia showed that each daily hour of television viewing was associated with an 11 percent rise in mortality. nytimes.com |