Michaelangelica Posted September 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 Chili peppers deliver red hot weight control potentialBy Shane Starling, 19-Mar-2009 Related topics: Industry, Antioxidants, carotenoids, Phytochemicals, plant extracts, Weight management Carotenoid specialist, OmniActive Health Technologies, is moving ahead with its chili extract preliminary research indicates can burn 278 calories more than placebo in exercising subjects before, with dietary supplements manufacturers coming on board.The Indian company that has done most of its business in lutein and curcumin, presented its Capsimax-branded chili extract at Expo West in Anaheim recently, where it noted a growing body of science backing the thermogenic potential of chili extracts – i.e. the ability to increase metabolic and calorie-burn rates.Chili peppers deliver red hot weight control potential Grape polyphenols may protect against obesity: StudyBy Stephen Daniells, 18-Mar-2009 Related topics: Research, Antioxidants, carotenoids, Phytochemicals, plant extracts, Weight management Antioxidant-rich supplements containing polyphenols from Chardonnay grape seed may protect against oxidative stress linked to obesity, suggests a new study with hamsters.Researchers from the University of Montpellier report that animals fed a high-fat diet but supplemented with the grape seed extract had adiponectin levels 61 per cent higher than animals only fed the high fat diet. Adiponectin is a protein hormone linked to various metabolic processes, and levels are inversely related to body fat levels.Grape polyphenols may protect against obesity: Study Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted October 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 Fat Factors By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIGPublished: August 13, 2006NYTIn the 30-plus years that Richard Atkinson has been studying obesity, he has always maintained that overeating doesn’t really explain it all. His epiphany came early in his career, when he was a medical fellow at U.C.L.A. engaged in a study of people who weighed more than 300 pounds and had come in for obesity surgery. “The general thought at the time was that fat people ate too much,” Atkinson, now at Virginia Commonwealth University, told me recently. “And we documented that fat people do eat too much — our subjects ate an average of 6,700 calories a day. But what was so impressive to me was the fact that not all fat people eat too much.”http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/magazine/13obesity.html?_r=1&scp=6&sq=Robin+Marantz+Henig&st=nyt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted February 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Overweight seniors live longerMonday, 01 February 2010University of Western Australia Adding weight to calls for BMI revisionRelated areasStories * Study proves that older adults are mentally tough * Dementia carers sought for research into Alzheimer's * A new approach to treating childhood obesity * Lifestyle changes prevent Alzheimer's disease * Liver disease linked to increased diabetes risk It may be timely to review the body mass index (BMI) classification for older adults as new research suggests that older overweight people are less likely to die over a 10 year period than their normal weight peers. A statistical measurement which utilises a person's height and weight, the BMI has long been used as a formula by the World Health Organization to enable health professionals to discuss weight problems objectively with their patients. However, a decade-long research project led by Winthrop Professor Leon Flicker at The University of Western Australia found that the category of overweight based on the index may not be a useful tool for Australian men and women aged between 70 and 75. Professor Flicker and his team assessed 9,200 men and women for their health and lifestyle as part of a study into healthy ageing. They found that adults aged over 70 years who are classified as overweight are less likely to die than adults in the normal weight range. The researchers also found that this holds true for the common causes of death including both cancer and cardiovascular disease; and that being sedentary doubles the risk of death for women but only increases the risk by a quarter in men. Published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, the study sheds light on the situation in Australia, ranked the third most obese country after the United States and the United Kingdom. These results add evidence to the claims that the WHO's BMI thresholds for overweight and obese are overly restrictive for older people. However, the benefits were only seen in the overweight category and not in those people who are obese. This research found that the same was true for men and women. "The study shows that those people who survive to age 70 in reasonable health (and hence participate in these studies) have a different set of risks and benefits associated with the amount of body fat compared with younger people," Professor Flicker said. "Concerns had been raised about encouraging overweight older people to lose weight and the object of our study was to examine the major unresolved question of ‘what level of BMI is associated with the lowest mortality risk in this group?'" This study is published in the February issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Media wishing to receive a PDF of this article may contact [email protected] Full citation: Flicker L, McCaul KA, Hankey GJ, Jamrozik K., Brown WJ, Byles JE, Almeida OP; Body Mass Index and Survival in Older Men and Women Aged 70 to 75 Years; The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2009); DOI: 0.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02677.x About the Author: Leon Flicker, MB BS, PhD, FRACP, is based at the Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing, Centre for Medical Research, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, The University of Western Australia. He is a Professor of Geriatric Medicine at UWA, a Consultant Geriatrician at Royal Perth Hospital and Director of the Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing. About the Journal: The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society is a comprehensive and reliable source of monthly research and information about common diseases and disorders of older adults. The journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Geriatrics Society. For more information, please visit Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - Journal Information. Adding weight to calls for BMI revision | University News : University News : The University of Western AustraliaCallooh! Callay! frabjous day! Overweight seniors live longer (Science Alert) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted March 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 Childhood obesity: Genetic variation could be a factor12. March 2010 08:56 More complicated Increasing childhood obesity has worried governments and public health advisers in many countries. But a study of 300 children with severe obesity by the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, suggest the problem may be more complicated than simply bad diet, overeating, or lack of exercise. 'It's a tricky issue,' says Doctor Matt Hurles from the Sanger Institute, 'because you don't want to remove peoples' motivation for their own health benefits. Equally, you don't want people to be stigmatized for things that are beyond their control.' Dr Hurles' group have been studying how the DNA structure, or the genome structure, varies between individuals, and the impact that has on health and disease. His team collaborated with a group specifically working on severe childhood obesity and they were keen to discover whether genetic variation could be a factor in obesity.Childhood obesity: Genetic variation could be a factor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted April 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2010 Insufficient Sleep Associated With Overweight And Obesity ScienceDaily (Jan. 20, 2005) — CHICAGO – Obese and overweight patients in a study group reported sleeping less than their peers with normal body mass indexes (BMIs), according to an article in the January 10 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Insufficient sleep causes neurocognitive changesInsufficient Sleep Associated With Overweight And ObesityRace And Short Sleep Duration Increase The Risk For Obesity ScienceDaily (June 8, 2009) — According to a research abstract that will be presented on June 8, at Sleep 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, race significantly influences the risk of obesity conferred by short sleep duration, with blacks having a greater risk than whites.Obesity Associated With Depression and Vice Versa ScienceDaily (Mar. 2, 2010) — Obesity appears to be associated with an increased risk of depression, and depression also appears associated with an increased risk of developing obesity, according to a meta-analysis of previously published studies in the March issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.Obesity associated with depression and vice versa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted April 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 The effectiveness of popular, non-prescription weight loss supplementsGarry Egger, David Cameron-Smith and Rosemary StantonMJA 1999; 171: 604-608 eMJA: Egger et al, The effectiveness of popular, non-prescription weight loss supplements Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted June 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is a term used to describe the accumulation of fat in the liver of people who drink little or no alcohol. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is common and, for most people, causes no signs and symptoms and no complications. But in some people with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, the fat that accumulates can cause inflammation and scarring in the liver. This more serious form of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is sometimes called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. At its most severe, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease can progress to liver failure. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease - MayoClinic.comCauses and Risk Factors of Fatty LiverAlcohol, obesity, starvation, diabetes mellitus, corticosteroids, poisons (carbon tetrachloride and yellow phosphorus), Cushing's syndrome, and hyperlipidemia are some causes of fatty liver. Microvesicular fatty liver may be caused by valproic acidtoxicity and high-dose tetracycline or during pregnancy.Fatty Liver - Symptoms, Treatment and Prevention Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted June 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 ZyprexaAtypical antipsychotics in general have been linked to increasing the risk of obesity, weight gain, high cholesterol, as well as diabetes and hyperglycemia in schizophrenia patients who take these drugs.Zyprexa Settlement and Seeger Weiss LLP On June 7, 2005, Eli Lilly and Christopher Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP, on behalf of the Plaintiff's Steering Committee in the federal Zyprexa MDL, announced a $700 million settlement. This settlement consists of approximately 8,000 cases against Eli Lilly, dealing with allegations that the atypical anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa caused patients to develop diabetes and diabetes-related injuries.Zyprexa: Lawyer Seek Litigation - Pharmaceutical Injury (diabetes)Sales of Zyprexa in 2008 were $2.2B in the US alone, and $4.7B in total.[4]-wikiThe Food and Drug Administration requires all atypical antipsychotics to include a warning about the risk of developing hyperglycemia and diabetes, both of which are factors in the metabolic syndrome. Not a warning on the Australian packets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted June 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Does starvation predispose to obesity?NEJM -- Neuroendocrine Responses to Starvation and Weight Loss How we’ve come to believe that overeating causes obesity Decades of sound studies have continued to show that healthy obese people eat and behave no differently than anyone else to explain why their bodies are bigger. It’s not “overeating,” or eating “unhealthy” foods or not enough “healthy” foods, or too little activity, that explains why some of us are fat and others lean. Junkfood Science: How we’ve come to believe that overeating causes obesity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CerebralEcstasy Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 For the time being I have absolutely nothing scientific to contribute to this topic, simply because I'm too lazy to form a coherent response. However, I did find this following prayer amusing: God grant me the serenityTo make good food choices;Courage to turn away from baked goods;And energy to exercise daily.Living healthy one day at a time;Enjoying my journey;Accepting that the road to wellness can be hard;Taking the tools of better eating out into the worldAs I should, free from the bad habits of the past;Trusting that making wise decisions today will pay off tomorrow;If I surrender to my willI will not beat myself up in this life and the nextBut I will remember that this is a life long journey;A journey that is well worth every pound lost. Maybe tomorrow I'll care about how pudgy I'm getting :shrug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CerebralEcstasy Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 As a side thought.....maybe it's apathy that is making us fat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted June 15, 2010 Report Share Posted June 15, 2010 As a side thought.....maybe it's apathy that is making us fat if you mean folks couldn't care less about cooking when they have the means to head for a trough at micky d's, then i agree it's apathy :lol: seems we americanos aren't the only plumpies now either. In China people getting fat fast, 200m overweight, 60m obeseIn China people are getting fat fast' date=' says a new survey - 22.8% of the country's population are overweight while 7.1% are obese. Over 200 million are overweight and approvximately 60 million are obese. In urban areas the rate is rocketing. In urban China 30% are overweight while 12.3% are obese. Health officials say that children in urban China are becoming obese at an alarming rate. At the moment 8.1% of Chinese kids are obese. Wang Longde, Vice-minister of Health, said overweight and obesity rates are expected to grow by a large margin in the near future. [/quote'] McDonald's has a big appetite for China - CNBC TV- msnbc.comMcDonald's has a big appetite for ChinaBEIJING - Two decades ago, McDonald's was largely unknown here, except as a symbol of the decadent west. But a capitalist revolution has swept through the People's Republic. And today mainland China, still officially Communist, is home to 800 McDonald's restaurants — with 200 more in Hong Kong. Jeff Schwartz, CEO of McDonald's China, says that’s just the beginning. “I just look at China's 1.3 billion population,” he said. “U.S. (population) 300 million, 13,000 restaurants. China (population) 1.3 billion and 800 restaurants. Easily we're talking 10,000 to 5,000 restaurants as it continues to develop. So the opportunity is endless.” good grief. :doh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted June 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 Plastics... and other unusual explanations for the obesity epidemicby Brie CadmanPlastics... and other unusual explanations for the obesity epidemic Adenovirus-36 (Ad-36)-almost 30 percent of obese people have antibodies (an indicator of exposure) to Ad-36, whereas only 5 percent of non-obese people have themThe Bacterial Bulge-Viruses aren't the only microbes that might play a role in obesity. It's no surprise that microorganisms, which exist in greater numbers in and on our bodies than our own cells, may also alter how we extract energy from food. estrogen-mimicking chemicals, which are found in everything from shampoo to plastic water bottles.Known as obesogens, these foreign chemicals are thought to disrupt normal developmental control over energy balance and fat storage.melanocortin-4 receptor-Null mutations of the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4-R) are associated with hyperphagia, obesity, andMC3-Receptor another central melanocortin receptor, the MC3-R. mice, while not significantly overweight, exhibit an approximately 50% to 60% increase in adipose massA Unique Metalolic Sysdrone Causes Obesity in the Melanocortin-3 Receptor-Deficient Mouse -- Butler et al. 141 (9): 3518 -- Endocrinology Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted June 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2010 Survival advantages of obesity in dialysis patientsIn the general population, a high body mass index (BMI; in kg/m2) is associated with increased cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality. However, the effect of overweight (BMI: 25–30) or obesity (BMI: >30) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) is paradoxically in the opposite direction; ie, a high BMI is associated with improved survival.Survival advantages of obesity in dialysis patients -- Kalantar-Zadeh et al. 81 (3): 543 -- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Results of experimental studies suggest that deviations in gut microbiota composition predispose to excessive energy storage and obesity. The mother influences the original inoculum and the development of infant microbiota, which in turn is associated with later weight gain.. . .Bacteroides and Staphylococcus were significantly higher in the overweight state than in normal-weight women as assessed by FCM-FISH and qPCR. Mother's weight and BMI before pregnancy correlated with higher concentrations of Bacteroides, Clostridium, and Staphylococcus. Microbial counts increased from the first to third trimester of pregnancy. High Bacteroides concentrations were associated with excessive weight gain over pregnancy (P = 0.014). Conclusions: Gut microbiota composition and weight are linked, and mother's weight gain is affected by microbiota. Microbiota modification before and during pregnancy may offer new directions for preventive and therapeutic applications in reducing the risk of overweight and obesity. Distinct composition of gut microbiota during pregnancy in overweight and normal-weight women -- Collado et al. 88 (4): 894 -- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Acute partial sleep deprivation increases food intake in healthy menConclusions: One night of reduced sleep subsequently increased food intake and, to a lesser extent, estimated physical activity–related energy expenditure in healthy men. These experimental results, if confirmed by long-term energy balance measurements, suggest that sleep restriction could be a factor that promotes obesity. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT00986492.http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/91/6/1550?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=obesity+unusual+cause*&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=40&resourcetype=HWCIT Sugar and body weight regulation JO Hill and AM PrenticeUniversity of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver, USA. The need to understand reasons for the high prevalence of obesity in developed countries has led to examination of dietary habits that may contribute to obesity. We consider whether consumption of high amounts of sugars presents a public health problem by contributing to the development of obesity. Metabolic studies show that diets high in fat are more likely to result in body fat accumulation than are diets high in carbohydrate. There is no indication that simple sugars differ from complex sugars in this regard. Epidemiologic data show a clear inverse relation between intake of sugar and fat. Further, although high intake of dietary fat is positively associated with indexes of obesity, high intake of sugar is negatively associated with indexes of obesity. There is ample reason to associate high-fat diets with obesity but, at present, no reason to associate high-sugar diets with obesity. http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/62/1/264S?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=obesity+unusual+cause*&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=40&resourcetype=HWCIT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted June 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2010 Re- defining obesity?Adding weight to calls for BMI revision Thursday, 28 January 2010 It may be timely to review the body mass index (BMI) classification for older adults as new research suggests that older overweight people are less likely to die over a 10 year period than their normal weight peers. A statistical measurement which utilises a person's height and weight, the BMI has long been used as a formula by the World Health Organization to enable health professionals to discuss weight problems objectively with their patients. However, a decade-long research project led by Winthrop Professor Leon Flicker at The University of Western Australia found that the category of overweight based on the index may not be a useful tool for Australian men and women aged between 70 and 75. Professor Flicker and his team assessed 9,200 men and women for their health and lifestyle as part of a study into healthy ageing. They found that adults aged over 70 years who are classified as overweight are less likely to die than adults in the normal weight range. The researchers also found that this holds true for the common causes of death including both cancer and cardiovascular disease; and that being sedentary doubles the risk of death for women but only increases the risk by a quarter in men. Published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, the study sheds light on the situation in Australia, ranked the third most obese country after the United States and the United Kingdom. These results add evidence to the claims that the WHO's BMI thresholds for overweight and obese are overly restrictive for older people. However, the benefits were only seen in the overweight category and not in those people who are obese. This research found that the same was true for men and women. Adding weight to calls for BMI revision | University News : University News : The University of Western Australia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paigetheoracle Posted July 7, 2010 Report Share Posted July 7, 2010 Here are a couple of things to consider - are wild animals fat? What about domesticated animals and civilized humans? Could it be that it is this civilization that is the cause in two major ways? Firstly, we use manpower less and machinery more than even fifty years ago. People use to walk - now they take taxis, buses, trains and drive their own personal vehicles, even to go a few hundred yards down the street. A job once done by a team of men is now done by one person with mechanical assistance. Animals that would have run for miles or scoured over a large area, are now restricted to pens, paddocks and sheds. All of this makes us and our livestock less exercised. Then there is what we imbibe - not only the food we eat but the air we breathe and the liquids we drink, which all draw pollutants into our systems, either accidentally or deliberately (industrial by products or additives). Then there is all the imported foods, spices, supplements etc. (Again our ancestors would have been restricted to local forms of sustenance and even recent agricultural advances have caused intolerances and allergies, in the form of wheat and diary products). The Pima Indians are known to have reacted badly to this change of diet by putting on weight, so why not the rest of the Western World, especially coupled with restricted exercise as per modern man? (Combined diet/ mobility cause). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted July 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 Interesting theory.Wild Animals rarely eat everday either-at least the carnivores- even at Zoos they starve them at least one day aweek to simulate the feat/famine cycle they normally have in the wild. Access To read this article in full you may need to log in, make a payment or gain access through a site license (see right).nature.com > Journal home > Table of ContentsArticle European Journal of Human Genetics , (30 June 2010) | doi:10.1038/ejhg.2010.102 Paternally inherited microdeletion at 15q11.2 confirms a significant role for the SNORD116 C/D box snoRNA cluster in Prader–Willi syndrome Angela L Duker, Blake C Ballif, Erawati V Bawle, Richard E Person, Sangeetha Mahadevan, Sarah Alliman, Regina Thompson, Ryan Traylor, Bassem A Bejjani, Lisa G Shaffer, Jill A Rosenfeld, Allen N Lamb and Trilochan SahooAbstract Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) is a neurobehavioral disorder manifested by infantile hypotonia and feeding difficulties in infancy, followed by morbid obesity secondary to hyperphagia. It is caused by deficiency of paternally expressed transcript(s) within the human chromosome region 15q11.2Access : Paternally inherited microdeletion at 15q11.2 confirms a significant role for the SNORD116 C|[sol]|D box snoRNA cluster in Prader|[ndash]|Willi syndrome : European Journal of Human Genetics The research led them to con- clude that there were two major receptors: CB(1), found mainly in the central nervous system and responsi- ble for the psychotropic effects of marijuana, spinal anesthesia. By the way, a recent paper in the International Journal of Obesity studied the use of taranabant, a CB(1) antagonist, as a weight loss aid. (16 Feb 2010 [epub].) The paper reported that groups on varying doses of taranabant lost more weight than controls. Unfortunately, the study had to be stopped because of dose-related adverse effects,son Center. Special Report: Coming Soon to an ED Near You: Bromo-Dragonf... : Emergency Medicine News Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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