News tagged with overweight women

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Rsearcher creates weight-gain guidelines for women pregnant with twins

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Healthy, normal-weight women pregnant with twins should gain between 37 and 54 pounds, according to research from a Michigan State University professor who helped shape the recently released national guidelines on gestational ...


Scientists suggest linkages between obesity and oral bacterial infection

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A scientific team from The Forsyth Institute has discovered new links between certain oral bacteria and obesity. In a recent study, the researchers demonstrated that the salivary bacterial composition of overweight women ...


Japanese study shows overweight people live longest

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Good news at last for chubby people having a few love handles may help a person live longer, a recent study showed.


Study suggests obese women should not gain weight

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

For years, doctors and other health-care providers have managed pregnant patients according to guidelines issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). In 1986, ACOG stated, "Regardless of how ...


Weight does not affect women's sexual behavior

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oregon and Hawaiian researchers have found that a woman's weight does not seem to affect sexual behavior. In fact, overweight women are more likely to report having sex with men than women considered to be of "normal weight."


Overweight, insulin resistant women at greater risk of advanced breast cancer diagnosis, says study

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 07, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Women who have risk factors commonly associated with Type 2 diabetes also have much greater odds of being diagnosed with an advanced breast cancer, according to research to be presented today.