News tagged with overweight
If you want to lose weight, find a mountain retreat
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has found the secret to effortless weight loss: spend some time at high altitude. Even a week on a mountain retreat can produce weight loss in sedentary people eating as much as ...
Feb 05, 2010 |
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Perception: Skinny people aren't lazy but overweight people are
Research at the University of Alberta shows that when a thin person is seen laying down watching television, people assume they're resting. But when people see an overweight person relaxing, it's automatically assumed they're ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 20, 2010 |
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More obesity blues: Obese people are at greater risk for developing Alzheimer's
Obesity is on a rampage, with the World Health Organization pegging the numbers at more than 300 million worldwide, with a billion more overweight. With obesity comes the increased risk for cardiovascular disease, Type II ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Weight matters: 'Normal' sized girls are judged to be more attractive by young men
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have found that despite the size zero trend, boys really do prefer 'normal' girls of an average weight and build.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 27, 2009 |
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One in seven US teens is vitamin D deficient
One in seven American adolescents is vitamin D deficient, according to a new study by researchers in the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. The findings are published in the March issue of the journal ...
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Overweight? Get someone else's gut bacteria
People who are overweight may have different gut bacteria from those in their slender fellow human beings. This is the contention of Willem de Vos, professor of Microbiology at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, in his ...
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Sleep may keep you thin: studies
The secret of staying thin could be at least partly down to a good night's rest, an international conference on obesity heard in Amsterdam on Thursday.
May 07, 2009 |
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Too much of a good thing: When having an extremely high body image can lead to health problems
(PhysOrg.com) -- For many women, body image is a constant struggle; a poor self-image can lead to a host of both mental and physical health problems. But a new study out of Temple University finds that an extremely good body ...
May 07, 2009 |
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1 in 4 overweight or obese adults don't believe they have a problem
(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to losing weight, perception is not always reality - in fact, it's often a major hurdle.
Medicine & Health / Overweight and Obesity
Apr 01, 2011 |
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Study finds that overweight people really are big-boned
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the blind spots in forensic science, particularly in identifying unknown remains, is the inability of experts to determine how much an individual weighed based on his or her skeleton. ...
Medicine & Health / Overweight and Obesity
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Overweight adults may have the lowest mortality: Do they have the best health?
While overweight adults die at lower rates than other weight categories, a new study shows that higher body weight was consistently associated with worse health risk profiles.
Medicine & Health / Overweight and Obesity
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Weight gain and obesity linked with endometrial cancer risk
(PhysOrg.com) -- Women who put on substantial weight in early adulthood were diagnosed with endometrial cancer at much younger ages than their peers who gained weight later in life, new research by the Yale ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Obese and overweight women, children underestimate true weight
Overweight and obese mothers and their children think they weigh less than their actual weight, according to research reported at the American Heart Association's Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism/Cardiovascular ...
Medicine & Health / Overweight and Obesity
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Does seeing overweight people make us eat more?
Consumers will choose and eat more indulgent food after they see someone who is overweight—unless they consciously think about their health goals, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Medicine & Health / Overweight and Obesity
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Exercise helps overweight children think better, do better in math
Regular exercise improves the ability of overweight, previously inactive children to think, plan and even do math, Georgia Health Sciences University researchers report.
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Overweight
Overweight is often used interchangeably with pre-obese and is generally defined as having more body fat than is optimally healthy. Being overweight is a common condition, especially where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary. As much as 64% of the United States adult population is considered either overweight or obese, and this percentage has increased over the last four decades.
Excess weight has reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults being either overweight or obese. Increases have been observed across all age groups.
A healthy body requires a minimum amount of fat for the proper functioning of the hormonal, reproductive, and immune systems, as thermal insulation, as shock absorption for sensitive areas, and as energy for future use. But the accumulation of too much storage fat can impair movement and flexibility, and can alter the appearance of the body.
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