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Dangers of Being Overweight in Old Age
Obesity and overweight are defined as excessive body energy reserves, mainly as fat, although it is known that in both cases the health is at risk, older adults increases the risk. This may be the time to take action to prevent future problems, do not you think?
Increased body fat is always manifested by weight gain, but this does not mean that all people who weigh more than what is considered normal to be obese. To find anthropometric indicators have been established as weight, height, thickness of skin folds and circumferences (waist and hip).
However, body mass index (BMI) is a medical tool that determines how much a person has exceeded the reserves of energy as fat. For BMI, divide the number of its weight in kilograms by the result of his height squared, if the shunt is less than 24.9 kg/m2 your weight is normal, if it goes from 25 to 29.9 kg/m2 means overweight. On the other hand, obesity is defined in three classes: the first corresponds to a BMI between 30 and 34.9 kg/m2, second, or risk, 35 to 39.9 kg/m2 and the latter in the sounding the alarm of danger, the index exceeds 40. Read the rest of this entry »
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Psychological Problems for Obesity
It is known that obesity favors the development of cancer, diabetes, hypertension, heart attacks and brain, sleep disorders and tear on joints, but not always talk about the adverse consequences that the emotional health and self-esteem of the individual.
According to reports issued by the World Health Organization, obesity is one of the top 10 challenges facing medical science in all nations, because it triggers life-threatening diseases, especially the alarming development that has had in recent decades. For example, it suffices to say that 61% of American adults have some degree of overweight, while in Germany half of its population is under the same circumstances.
For obvious reasons, the current prevention campaigns emphasize undesirable consequences of overweight such as heart attack (death of tissue in heart and brain by blockage or rupture of blood vessels), diabetes (accumulation of glucose in the blood due to complete or partial impairment secretion and insulin action) and cancer (uncontrolled multiplication of abnormal cells that form tumors), but it is noteworthy that many experts also emphasize the impact that obesity has on the behavior and emotions of the sufferer and even stress that psychological factors are decisive for many people resist treatment or abandon it shortly after starting. Read the rest of this entry »
Know More About Obesity and Diabetes
One in seven people over 50 have impaired glucose tolerance, which consists of elevated blood sugar levels after eating. In most cases, this intolerance develops as a result of obesity and associated metabolic syndrome.
If the person does not take concrete measures (weight loss, control their diet and exercising regularly) when you are diagnosed with this problem, the direct consequence of diabetes, which is growing by leaps and bounds and has become a serious health problem public, especially for its high prevalence among young people and children. An estimated one in ten people with IGT will develop type 2 diabetes is estimated that in thirty years, the rate of people with diabetes worldwide will grow by more than one hundred percent.
Diabetes causes, in turn, complications. One in three diabetics will develop kidney failure and more than 70% will die from cardiovascular disease. It is also the leading cause of blindness and amputations. Read the rest of this entry »
Good practice for heart health
Adults and children alike tend to connect to the computer or TV for several hours per day. This can lead to snacking unconscious, coupled with inactivity, can cause the medium to long term weight gain and other health problems linked to obesity among various family members.
So, what can you do to keep your heart is still healthy?
Teach your children how to make the kitchen
Another way to create a good time to spend with family is to teach your children like to cook. Involve them in planning the weekly menu for the whole family, food purchases in the preparation of meals for the family.
During these moments spent together, you can teach your children healthy food choices, how to read labels, portion control. In doing so, you raise children who will grow up and become adults who love to cook healthy meals.
Do not reward your children with food
It is a usual temptation to want to reward your children for ice cream or sweets when they did well at school or when they do something you enjoy. By rewarding your children with food, you make them take a bad habit.
Instead, take your children to the cinema to see a film, allow them to spend more time with their friends, praise them verbally acknowledge their achievement in a way that does not include food.
Popular Beliefs about Nutrition and Obesity (Part 3)
Is it true that toast or bread crusts contribute less calories than the crust (white)?
NO. The composition of both the toasted crumb crust or the same in all. Just change the water content, as the crust and toast contain less.
Does the oil in “raw” is not fattening?
The thermal effect does not change the calorie content of the oils, all provide 9 cal per gram. What is certain is that you saturate when cooked, becoming harmful to health, but the calories are the same, both raw and modified by cooking.
Why is it recommended to increase water consumption when performing a low-calorie diet?
There are mainly 3 reasons:
• increases satiety
• helps to correct intestinal transit, when the diet is low in fat
• prevents the formation of kidney stones, decreasing the density of urine.
Is sparkling water, add calories?
NO. With gas or without gas, water gives energy, so it is never a factor of concern about weight gain. The sparkling water is often restricted for persons with hypertension, given its high sodium content.
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Popular Beliefs about Nutrition and Obesity (Part 2)
Does eating quickly and hastily fattening?
NO. Is the consumption of excess calories which results in an increase in body weight. What if it happens, is that people who eat quickly turn usually eat more food.
Does salt fattening?
NO. Salt being a mineral, is heated (no calories). However, its intake can cause fluid retention in people with heart disease, kidney or liver. Fluid retention does not mean fat.
Are vitamin and mineral supplements increase our weight?
NO. None provides calories (energy).
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Popular Beliefs about Nutrition and Obesity (Part 1)
A brief description about each myth or misconception regarding nutrition is concerned, will help us understand the true reasons for the different processes of food and metabolism. Have clear ideas give us some knowledge, which will improve our decisions and therefore quality of life.
At the same time, avoiding misleading advertisements that threaten our health and wellbeing. The correct information on the most common questions and concerns, leads us to know how to choose, knowing how to respond and decide clearly, in situations that allow us access to a healthy lifestyle.
Then try to clarify the following points regarding nutrition and weight gain:
Is it possible that obese absorb more nutrients than thin people?
NO. Nutrient absorption occurs in the same way in both.
Inheritance is one of the factors that influence the development of obesity, namely that children of obese parents are at increased risk.
However, other factors such as sedentary lifestyle, inadequate intake and an unhealthy lifestyle, which will lead to this disorder.
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The Diet in The Treatment of Obesity (Part 2)
The most common causes of obesity are overeating first the food and energy, and to a lesser extent: metabolic endocrine disorders (Cushing’s disease, hypothyroidism, etc.)
Certain psychological disorders (Bulimia nervosa), the iatrogenic (related to consumption of certain drugs like steroids, etc.), and in extreme obesity, genetic factors (current research). In all likelihood one of the tasks ahead is to develop preventive level of each country.
These are general recommendations that should be made to the general population from the schools, media, health institutions, etc. They cover a number of indications that must be assumed by the general population (decreased saturated fat intake, increased fiber intake, moderation in intake of sugar, alcohol and salt, etc.) The second approach should be made to individual level, bearing in mind that obesity is a chronic disease and must be treated as such.
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The Diet in The Treatment of Obesity (Part 1)
Obesity is a disease that can be defined as the increase in body weight over 15% of its value considered normal, due to increased body fat.
There is a parameter that lets you easily define the existence of obesity, body mass index (BMI):
BMI (kg/m2) = Actual Weight / Height x Height
* Weight in Kg
* Length in meters
Obesity is a carrier of any person with a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater or equal to 30 kg/m2. Body Mass Index (BMI) also serves to classify the different degrees of obesity:
* BMI 30-40 kg/m2, moderate obesity
* BMI> 40 kg/m2, extreme obesity.
In Spain the prevalence of obesity, according to a study led by Javier Aranceta and collaborators in 1995, was 13.4% in men and women aged 25-60 years. What is more worrying is the fact that it is increasing.
Another important aspect from the point of view of morbidity (increased risk of illness) and mortality, is the fact that people with a BMI over 30, have an increased risk of diabetes (excess weight causes a resistance to insulin and may be caused by either a carbohydrate intolerance, but not all obese people are diabetic and vice versa), hypertension (with increasing body mass, the heart must pump more blood, which is an increase in the values of blood pressure)…,
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Predisposing Obesity in Certain Diet
A study ratifies importance combination diet-genetic in obesity: not only influence diet and genetics separately but also very important combination so what fattens a person can affect least another.
Therefore genetic analysis determining diet personalized is each day closer is one of hopes for combat overweight and obesity.
Research has been directed by Human Nutrition Research Center Boston (USA) and therein collaborated include both scientists Medicine department Preventive Universitat de Valéncia (led by Dolors Corella) like Dr. José Ordovás recognized expert on internationally. Work published in magazine Archives of Internal Medicine.
The importance of research is that was first EBERs gene-diet three different populations, increasing validity results.
This interaction implies that albeit that risk obesity is essentially determined by heredity, expression such genes is often conditioned by feeding mode.
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