Browsing Tag: Obesity

Excess weight can now officially be added to the growing number of factors that contribute to cancer according to the UK's Million Women Study.

'It seems to have put an exclamation point on the wheat belly controversy.'

Have you heard people say they just can't lose weight even when they nearly starve themselves? Ever felt that way yourself?

As if the nation's weight problems were not daunting enough, a new study has found that the body mass index, the 180-year-old formula used to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy weight, may be incorrectly classifying about half of women and just over 20% of men.

Gortmaker and his colleagues call for action at multiple levels of society. They provide a list of interventions aimed at children, adolescents, and adults that have been estimated to be cost-effective. In addition to taxes on unhealthy food and drink and restrictions on junk food and beverage TV advertising to children,...

"It strengthens the case for all women of reproductive age having greater access to nutritional, education and lifestyle support to improve the health of the next generation, and to reduce the risk of the conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, which often follow obesity."

If Lustig is right, then our excessive consumption of sugar is the primary reason that the numbers of obese and diabetic Americans have skyrocketed in the past 30 years. But his argument implies more than that. If Lustig is right, it would mean that sugar is also the likely dietary cause of several other chronic ailments widely considered to be diseases of Western lifestyles — heart disease, hypertension and many common cancers among them.

Our research, which looked at parts of the body that easily show biological signs of aging, suggests that a restricted diet can help to reduce the amount of cell senescence occurring can reduce age-related disease."