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Prevent the obesity in middle 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 the European 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 »
Obesity can reduce your age
I have heard in more than one occasion that famous statistical output do not know where it says that each cigarette represents three minutes less than life. Despite the fact that it is clear that smoking reduces life expectancy, I find it hard to see this in a different way more than a mere popular belief.
In this statistical line fits a study conducted by the Clinical Trial Service of the United Kingdom, which publishes in The Lancet a study that took account of the data of more than one million people to throughout the world, which concludes that the obesity can steal 10 years of life.
For that have been based on a famous index, the Body Mass Index (BMI), which was obtained by dividing the weight in kilograms of a person by the square of your height in meters. This gives a number that reaches its optimum levels between 20 and 25. The researchers argue that each increment in the BMI of more to the area healthy 20-25 entails a risk of premature death increased for the individual. Read the rest of this entry »