News tagged with moderate obesity

Healthy lifestyle habits lower heart failure risk

If you don't smoke, aren't overweight, get regular physical activity and eat vegetables, you can significantly reduce your risk for heart failure, according to research reported in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Frequent moderate drinking of alcohol is associated with a lower risk of fatty liver disease

In a large study of men in Japan, the presence of fatty liver disease by ultrasonography showed an inverse ( reduced risk) association with the frequency of moderate alcohol consumption; however, there was some suggestion ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Probiotics may be able to help you keep slim

Researchers from LIFE - Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen are working on a promising research project that seems to indicate that probiotics have a slimming effect.

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created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0




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Calories, not protein or carbs, are key to weight loss for people with diabetes

(Medical Xpress) -- Overweight or obese people with type 2 diabetes are more likely to reduce weight if they focus on cutting back on total calorie intake, rather than specific high protein/high carbohydrate diets according ...

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created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Coffee consumption reduces fibrosis risk in those with fatty liver disease

Caffeine consumption has long been associated with decreased risk of liver disease and reduced fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease. Now, newly published research confirms that coffee caffeine consumption reduces ...

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created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Assessing the value of BMI screening and surveillance in schools

The value of routine body mass index (BMI) screening in schools has been a topic of ongoing controversy. An expert Roundtable Discussion in the current issue of Childhood Obesity, a peer-reviewed journal publis ...

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study finds potential link between daily consumption of diet soft drinks and risk of vascular events

Individuals who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. This is according to a new study by Hannah Gardener and her colleagues ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

2 in 5 adults with rheumatoid arthritis are physically inactive

A new study, funded by a grant from the National Institute for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), found that two in five adults (42%) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were inactive. Taking measures to ...

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created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Can a tax on soft drinks help reduce obesity?

(Medical Xpress) -- Can obesity be taxed away? Several UConn professors think that taxing fattening foods can help – but not in the way many people would expect. Instead of trying to make unhealthy foods prohibitively ...

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created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Updated American Cancer Society nutrition guidelines stress need for supportive environment

Updated guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention from the American Cancer Society stress the importance of creating social and physical environments that support healthy behaviors. The report includes ...

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created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study of WTC responders: PTSD and respiratory illness linked

(Medical Xpress) -- More than 10 years after 9/11, when thousands of rescue and recovery workers descended on the area surrounding the World Trade Center in the wake of the terrorist attacks, a research team led by Benjamin ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

More reasons to keep this New Year's weight loss resolution uncovered

Long-term healthy dietary interventions frequently induce a rapid weight decline, mainly in the first four to six months, followed by weight stabilization or regain, despite continued dieting. The partial regain may discourage ...

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created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New stats show America's heart health needs improvement

America's heart and blood vessel health is far from ideal, according to data in the American Heart Association's "Heart Disease and Stroke Statistical Update 2012," published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart As ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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