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The Health Risk Of Obesity
The health risks of obesity are serious and even fatal, heart disease, for example, are the number one cause of death in the United States and can be directly linked to obesity, these are the risk factors related to it:
Type 2 Diabetes
The type 2 diabetes and obesity are directly related to the point that mQore than 85 percent of the people diagnosed with it also are overweight. The type 2 diabetes starts when the body does not respond properly to insulin, a hormone released by the pancreas.
Heart Disease
The obesity is an important risk factor as regards to heart disease and heart attack, taking at least 20 percent or more of incidence in the overweight people.
Incontinence of stress
The excess weight, especially in the abdominal area, puts additional pressure on the bladder, motivating this discomfort that represents the incontinence or leakage of urine. Read the rest of this entry »
Overweight women: do they have less life expectancy?
The middle-aged women who are overweight have nearly 80% less likely to maintain good health compared with normal weight women. This was the conclusion of recent research. A group of American researchers studied more than 17,000 nurses with an average age of 50. When the study began in 1976 all women were healthy. The researchers tracked their weight until 2000.
The results indicated that for every point increase in body mass index of these women had a 12% lower chance to get healthy until age 70 (compared with thin women). During the study not only evaluated the possibility of contracting chronic diseases. It also took into account the ability to perform everyday tasks; such is the case of making purchases, vacuuming or climbing stairs.
Experts believe that those women with a BMI between 19-25 are in a healthy state. Otherwise, those with an index of 25 to 30 are considered overweight women, those exceeding 30 points, obese. Read the rest of this entry »