Dietary approaches to stop hypertension diet reduces cholesterol and long-term cardiovascular risk
... men and women (average age 44 years) who were all overweight or obese, inactive, and had high blood pressure. In an 8-week trial, the subjects consumed a control diet based on the typical American diet, a diet increased in fruit and vegetables, or the DASH diet. The DASH diet resulted in an average 13.7 mg/dL ...Weight more closely linked to early puberty in preteen white girls than black girls
CHAPEL HILL Being overweight is closely associated with earlier-than-average pu... already had begun developing breasts or were just overweight also were invalid, she said. Dr. Kaplowitz published a paper previously showing that pediatricians m...Leptin may hold key to better weight loss
... see if the two substances together might help the overweight animals lose weight. The addition of leptin, they believed, would trick the brain into thinking that no weight was being lost. "By preventing the decrease in leptin levels that normally occurs with weight loss, we theorized that sibutramine would ...Unique UNC study confirms suspected worldwide epidemic of childhood obesity
... Twenty-five of every 100 U.S. children are either overweight or obese, but children from other major nations ar...y concludes. Sixteen percent of Russian youths are overweight or downright fat, and the figure for Chinese children is 7 percent. "Child obesity is becoming a pub...Fighting the battle of the bulge in children
...estimated 30 to 50 percent of preschoolers who are overweight or obese. In an attempt to decrease the incidence of obesity, as well as establish a diet that is protective against cancer, the National Cancer Institute has awarded researchers at Saint Louis University School of Public Health a four-year, $2,406,8...Rapid weight gain in infancy may lead to obesity at age 7
...icantly associated with an increased risk of being overweight at age seven, regardless of birth weight and weigh...hors used the presently recommended definition for overweight status a sex-specific body mass index that is greater than 95 percent of the U.S. population at any...How the male beer-gut may be a red flag for cardiovascular disease and other health problems
...us fat (computed tomography) were undertaken in 17 overweight and obese, sedentary men (age, 18-40 years of age;... the lower cardiovagal baroreflex gain observed in overweight and obese men is linked to their higher level of abdominal visceral fat. Excessive accumulation of ...Obesity may exacerbate a heart disorder in African American females
... that African American girls are more likely to be overweight than Caucasian girls. The trend continues into their adulthood, as 30 percent of younger (18-30 years) and 77 percent of older (45-65 years) black women are obese compared to 14 percent and 46 percent respectively, for their white counterparts. Ov...Virginia Tech study documents hypertension association with obesity and heavy alcohol consumption
... Center for Food and Nutrition Policy. "If you are overweight or obese, losing weight will reduce your risk of hypertension and provide other health benefits." Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a serious medical condition affecting approximately 50 million adult Americans. Hypertension is associated with...Research shows older children, adolescents grew heavier in Brazil, China, U.S. over past 30 years
...centage of older children and adolescents who were overweight tripled in Brazil and almost doubled in the United...ll study. Between 1991 and 1997, the percentage of overweight children climbed 20 percent in China but dropped by almost half in Russia, which fell on economic ha......al and slimmer weight. This may not be so easy and overweight Americans may be throwing their money away. New study findings suggest that nutritional wisdom goes out the window when unhealthy food choices are more available than healthier nutrients. Tests with rodents found that the number of containers of ea...Xenical improves glycaemic control in those poorly controlled on anti-diabetic medication
... provides additional glycaemic control benefits in overweight or obese patients with type 2 diabetes taking maxi...icians with another tool to control blood sugar in overweight or obese patients with type 2 diabetes, and prolong the utility of oral anti-diabetes medications." ...New data shows weight loss with Xenical provides benefits for type 2 diabetes patients
.... The studies examined the efficacy of Xenical in overweight or obese patients with type 2 diabetes, looking at...ble-blind, placebo-controlled trials of Xenical in overweight or obese patients with type 2 diabetes. Study participants were placed on a mildly reduced calorie d...Research identifies enzyme involved in fat storage
...ther tissues. Genetically obese ( ob/ob ) mice are overweight and show low levels of fat metabolism. In the absence of leptin, the level of SCD-1 rises and more fat is stored in the liver. Leptin is produced by fat tissue and secreted into the bloodstream, where it travels to the brain and other tissues, causin...Framingham heart study finds strong link between overweight/obesity & risk for heart failure
... data have been limited regarding the influence of overweight and lesser degrees of obesity on the risk of this ...g degrees of body weight, is 34 percent higher for overweight individuals and 104 percent higher for obese persons. The large, community-based study investigat...Reduced-calorie diet adds nearly two years to dogs' life span
...group fed a diet higher in calories were uniformly overweight and had a median life span of 11.2 years. "Impressive as they are, the life span figures are only part of the story," said Gail K. Smith, professor of orthopedic surgery at Penn and chair of the Department of Clinical Studies at the School of Veteri...Research shows less income, education not always top factors in child obesity
...that observation was that it suggested obesity and overweight would be difficult to curtail because such charact... and various ethnic-racial groups. "We found that overweight was lower among white girls from higher-income, better-educated families than among other white girl...Fast-paced lifestyle helps to erode teens teeth
...ercent of preschool age children ages 2-5 that are overweight are becoming addicted to caffeine and sugar making...erweight adolescents have a 70% chance of becoming overweight or obese adults. Being overweight puts adolescents at significant health risks including increased ...Obesity not a personal failing, but a battle against biology
... passes a defined threshold: People are said to be overweight if their BMI is greater than 25, and obese if thei...h.D., an expert in the epidemiology of obesity and overweight at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which shows that in addition to an increase ...Research sheds light on why protein-rich diets aid weight loss
...of Medicine, tested his hypothesis on 24 mid-life, overweight women who consumed diets of 1,700 calories a day for 10 weeks. Physical activity of the participants was held constant. The control group ate according to the USDA Food Guide Pyramid, consuming approximately 0.36 grams of protein and 1.3 grams of ca...