Archive for the ‘obesity’ Category
Obesity and your children
The tummy, kilotons over and cellulite incipient are cosmetic problems that can be solved with a little effort. However, in some people obesity is so important that becomes necessary to consult with health professionals to find treatments to eliminate it.
The problems that it generates in the quality of life of the person obese are manifold. In women, problems have dual sense, as if they are thinking about having children with the best would be starting a treatment for losing weight, because his condition could severely affect the development of the fetus according to a study in England.
In him Katherine Stothard and his colleagues of the British University of Newcastle have investigated 18 cases of pregnancies and births among whom there were cases of obese women, studying the development of the fetus and the growth of the child to observe the impact that obesity of the mother could have on them. Read the rest of this entry »
The obesity: a shield against the old age?
How to deny that a trademark of average man of middle-aged is the friendly tummy? This may not mean obesity! You may be the beginning of the same, and that is why it should be attentive to not leave developed too.
The reasons are obvious, and a recent study carried out in Finland has added arguments to prevent the obesity in middle age to check that it not only can hurt in the short and medium-term, but it has discovered a interesting paradox to develop in old age that is precisely we are talking about below.
Studying more than 1,000 men, the scientists led by Dr Timo Strandberg and that published his study in theEuropean Heart Journal have discovered that in those cases of men obese than in old age lost their weight could suffer more health problems that those who continued to be obese.
For example, take the case of a person who at age 40 is obese and that as they pass the years is losing weight. Scientists identified the fact that these people became more vulnerable to the elderly, taking more risks of fractures or injuries that those who had retained its overweight. Read the rest of this entry »