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Obesity Linked to High Blood Pressure

September 8, 2010
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It has been well known for a long time that excess weight can lead to high blood pressure, and that losing weight can lower your blood pressure, but until now it has been difficult to quantify the degree of risk.

However, for more than twenty years now (since 1986) researchers have been monitoring the health a group of more than 22,000 doctors and, in one aspect of their research, have examined the relationship between weight and blood pressure in a sub-group of 13,563 male doctors whose blood pressure was normal at the start of the study. Each year throughout the study period a wide variety of lifestyle data was collected and health measurements taken, including each participant’s body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure, and these measurements have now been analyzed to produce a twenty year picture.

The BMI for men of a normal weight is 18.5 to 24.9 and the study used men with a BMI of 22.4 (the mean for normal weight men within this group) as their base for calculations. They then looked at the data collected to predict the likelihood of these men developing high blood pressure over the twenty years of the study.

Surprisingly, there was a marked increase even in those men who were only slightly above the mean figure of 22.4, but still within the normal weight range, with men between 22.4 and 23.6 being 20 percent more likely to develop high blood pressure. This risk then continued to rise as weight increased and it was found that obese men were 85 percent more likely than the lower end normal weight men to develop high blood pressure.

Most importantly, this figure of 85 percent was calculated on the basic not simply of BMI and blood pressure data, but also took into account such things as age, other health conditions (such as diabetes) and a wide range of lifestyle factors including smoking and exercise.

People suffering from obesity are well used to being told that this, that or the other is bad for them and carries risks but, more often than not, they tend to dismiss these on the grounds that the risk is probably not that high and that their chances of being affected are relatively low. In the case of high blood pressure though it would seem that the risk is high and the chances of being affected are far from low.

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One Cancer Out of Six is Linked to Obesity

June 10, 2010
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One Cancer Out of Six is Linked to Obesity

Obesity is responsible for one out of six cancers. Throughout the years, our fat meals, barbecues and lack of fruits and vegetables have been identified as risk for cancer. But, the real culprit is obesity. Obesity is responsible for 15 to 20% of all cancer cases, said Walter Willett, a Public Health Researcher from Harvard University.

It is now very well known that obesity has exceeded tobacco as the main cause for cancer. There are now less and less smokers and more an more obese people. Other food causes for cancer vary between 10 to 15% of cancers, according to Dr Willett. Alcohol consumption is also very bad, but the negative effects are reduced when folic acid is consumed, a composite present in broccoli. Drinking too much or not enough milk is also a problem. Vitamin D is now being examined as well as consumption of hormone-fed animals by women ready to procreate.

FOOD HABITS AND CANCER RISKS

The link between animal fat and cancer risk has been identified. However, some people are more at risk than other, as it is the case for young women. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, women less than 40 years old had much more cancers than older ones. It is really possible that fertility put them more at risk. It is in the seventies that food habits have been suspected for cancer risks.Meat cooked at very high temperature as barbecues,and then meat with high animal fat were examined but really no effect was measured.Then fruits and vegetables were examined also because the lack of these means that antioxidants are lacking which means degradation of body cells.

LACK OF MICRO-NUTRIENTS AND CANCER RISKS

But, again results were nor very conclusive. The JACKPOT was found out when OBESITY has been looked at. Another Researcher, Bruce Ames, from Oakland Research Institute, has put forward a new theory: the lack of micro-nutrients, like iron, magnesium, zinc and other vitamins. In some cases, the lack of these is very important, even in USA. For example, 56% of American Adults are lacking magnesium,and 92% lack Vitamin A. Even if the magnitude of the deficiency is small, it is increasing cancer risk. When the body is lacking small quantity of micro-nutrients, it uses them first for vital functions and the short term survival. Other functions, like the cell damage repairs are put aside.

BODY MASS AND CANCERS RISKS

Overweight increases the risk of developing many types of cancer, as set out in the British Medical Weekly, the Lancet. These results are backing up a study published last October by the World Cancer Research Fund International, which concluded that the maintenance of optimal weight throughout a life time is one of the main means of protection against cancer. Andrew Renehan and his colleagues from Manchester University (UK) have reviewed 282,000 cases and concluded that BODY MASS INDEXES over 25 and 30 have a clear incidence on many types of cancer. It is obvious now that every person has the responsibility to take control of their weight and consequently of their health. Isagenix and Detox Drops can help you to cleanse your body and loose weight. Hoodia and Fat Lost Secret are suitable for weight loss. Take action now and have a look on the programs below.

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Obesity Linked to Aids Fears in South Africa

May 6, 2010
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The Hottentot Venus would no doubt have disputed the claim, but an authority on obesity has blamed the rising number of overweight black women in South Africa on Aids. The claim was made yesterday by Tessa van der Merwe of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, who estimated that about one in three black South African women was seriously overweight.

The factors she blamed it on included:

· HIV-Aids, which has created fears among black women that if they are seen to be losing weight it will be assumed they have the disease

· The tribal belief that fatness reflects wealth

· Violent crime, which makes it difficult to get enough out-of-doors exercise

The generously proportioned Saartjie Baartman – also known as the Hottentot Venus – was carted around Europe in the 19th century as a circus freak before dying there. Her remains were found in a French museum and campaigners persuaded former French president François Mitterrand to allow her to return home in 1994. She has become an icon of the feminist community and a symbol of European colonial attitudes towards Africa long before the advent of Aids and present levels of crime.

Ms van der Merwe said all races suffered a high level of weight problems in South Africa.

“Regretfully, there is also a perception that if a black woman is thin, she might have HIV/Aids or that her husband can’t afford to feed her well,” she said.

Ms van der Merwe said regular, high intensity exercise routines were not possible for many. “There is the reality – it simply isn’t safe to walk around,” she said.

Ms van der Merwe, who heads South Africa’s first obesity clinic, said weight was causing health problems such as heart disease, hypertension and diabetes.

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