Posts Tagged ‘Obesity’
Obesity is just a hell! It not only leaves a bad physical appearance of you but takes all the happiness of life from your, recently a research has shown that men who face their adult life with an Obese body faces a lifelong doubling of risk of death in the premature age.
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A study was presented at International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm and in that the researchers tracked 5,000 military conscripts starting at the age of 20 until up to the age of 80 and at the end of study it was found out that obese people were twice as likely to die as compared to those who were not obese at their age of adolescent.
While talking about the results of this study the study’s leader, Esther Zimmermann, a researcher at the Institute of Preventive Medicine said that “As the obesity epidemic is still progressing rapidly, especially among children and adolescents, it is important to find out if obesity in early adulthood has lifelong mortality effects”.
Nowadays everyone is looking for the ways to getting slim and smart but not willing to leave his/her own car and travel into the public transits, recently a group of researchers have notified this thing that if people will leave their cars and travel in the public transit then they’ll be able to effectively burn their calories in moving from one transit to another.
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According to the study’s co-author Robert Stokes, coordinator of the Urban Environmental Studies Program at Drexel University in Philadelphia “Fixed rail transit systems provide a moderate public health benefit to users by creating more opportunity for walking in one’s daily commute”.
In this study almost 500 people were surveyed in Charlotte, N.C. and the time period was before and after the completion of light rail transit system in that area.
It is a very old conception that obesity is one of the major contributors to the heart diseases and also diabetes, this thing may be true for some people but for all obese individuals this thinking is not right, a new Dutch research has proven.
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According to the lead researcher Dr. Andre van Beek, from the University Medical Center in Groningen “Metabolically healthy obese persons do not have the elevated cardiovascular risk of obesity, but represent only a small subset of the total obese population” and further “It’s the metabolic risk profile that counts and not the weight itself”.
For the purpose of conducting this research, the researchers have collected data of 1,325 obese people and these were among those 8,356 Dutch people who participated in a large Dutch study.
It has been noticed that the US government had placed some small taxes on Soda and other carbonated drinks.
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This reason for such actions was that people might be kept away from obesity especially the young kids who are always found of such drinks but a recent research has showed that small taxes has no impact on children’s obesity rate and may be the some more taxes will help in reaching this goal.
This study has been actually revealed as proposal to raise taxes on carbonated drinks and it was lead by Roland Sturm, a senior economist at the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif.
Obesity is one of the hot topics for the researchers and we have seen plethora of researches on this issue but a recent one has shown a bit different and alarming result.
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The new research was led by University of North Carolina researcher Asheley Cockrell Skinner and it says that the odds of obesity appears mostly in the black and Hispanic children sometimes even before the birth.
The research has thus helped greatly in finding the dispropotionality rates of obesity in the children of minority families. While the research the researchers examined many factors that can cause obesity and each of those factors were common in the black and Hispanic children.
Some of the common factors which were examined include; eating and sleeping habits in infancy and mother’s smoking habit during pregnancy.
