Stop The Obesity

Not too long ago, obesity was viewed mainly as a cosmetic problem. The purpose of dieting was to maintain your appearance. Exercise was a way to tighten your stomach and thighs. As a last resort, there were always doctors, although they were seen as suspicious.
In just the last few years the medical view of excess body fat has undergone a major change. It is now known to be a public health problem of the same magnitude as smoking. Government statistics list overweight as the second-leading cause of preventable death in the United States, after smoking, increasing the risk for a variety of serious diseases like heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, and several forms of cancer — overweight and its more severe form, obesity, cause 280,000–325,000 deaths in this country each year. For many people, losing weight is a struggle for survival.
The dangers of being overweight have come to light at a time when the rates of overweight and obesity are skyrocketing. More than half of all adults in the United States are overweight, and 26% are obese — an increase of more than 50% in the last three decades. Obesity rates are dramatically rising among children, too, a bad sign for the future health of our population.
If there is one thing to be learned about obesity it’s that it can be controlled and it can be stopped. I think it’s important to know that there is no rocket science involved in it. With all the health, fitness, and diet books, and commercials on television about it and all the medical documents it can appear complicated, but it really isn’t. We need to go back to a simpler time, and take the time to be more active and learn the self discipline to eat healthier foods. It can feel satisfying emotionally and physically to eat unhealthy, but we have to train ourselves not to do this. If not for ourselves, for the sake of our children, and in the long run it feels much better to eat right.

Pictures Of Fat Kids

OK everybody has a problem with photographs. Unless you are a photographers dream or the latest supermodel we all have a problem with our photographic image. We have our good days of course but poor lighting, poor complexion, red eye and a long list of problems may cause us concern when we see our image in all its glory It is said a picture tells a thousand words. If it is true pictures of fat kids still tells a thousand words, a thousand often-unpleasant words.
If the picture is one of you or your family how does it make you feel? People say lots of things when looking at a picture or photograph “isn’t that cute”, “what a great smile”, “don’t they look so happy” etc etc. however it matters little what they say out a loud most would agree that it is not right to see pictures of fat kids. Fat kids do not look healthy, they don’t look right to the eye. Cruel yes but the truth sometimes is.
When looking back through your family album you may come across these same photographs of you or your family and you say to yourself “boy was I a chubby kid”, “look at that puppy fat”. That’s great if you have since moved on and shed this image. Maybe it was just a short phase that you grew out of, a growth spurt maybe! The problem at the moment is that in the 21st century the chances of seeing a family picture without some fat or overweight people in the frame is getting ever more difficult to find. The statistics are coming ever more frequent and the trends are all going the same way. That way is up. The average weight is going up especially for our children. Not just up but substantially so, up to the point where it is common to hear words like obese, clinically obese and life threatening in the same sentence. Also equally alarming these statistics also show that kids that reach these proportions are more and more likely to remain so in their adult life and so attracting all the ailments and problems that come with it.

Obesity and Toxicity

In my last blog I talked about the relationship between obesity and environmental toxicity. Researchers from around the world are doing research on this issue. My research indicates that toxins block the ability of your body to breakdown carbohydrates for energy within the citric acid cycle.
So how do we find out what toxin is doing the damage. The only real effective way is through the use of appropriate laboratory testing.
One test I am really thrilled with is the Environmental Pollutants Panel from US Biotek of Seattle, Washington. It measures the urinary output of solvents such as benzene, toluene, xylene, styrene, phthalates and parabens. Measuring blood levels of these chemicals is almost worthless as we all carry them in our blood per studies done by the US government. What is important is to see whether you are excreting them efficiently or you are being overly exposed. Within their tests there is an interpretive report that can guide a health care practitioner to develop a detoxification protocol that is safe and effective.

Excess Body Fat Harmful Effects & Glucomannan

Excess body fat is linked to major physical threats like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, and the other factor is excess weight is not only very dangerous for health but it also look ugly and this make you very frustrated in your daily life, excess weight make your confidence level very low, and more important you became a victim of raging as we know the early age weight gain can be reduced by taking low junk foods and to have such natural supplements which do not produce any hormonal imbalances.
Its necessary to us maintain a stable weight, we often do exercises and take less meal and do what can we do to overcome this problem, because of busy routine we have now a days it is difficult for us to take 2 to 3 hours for exercise and less meal which make us lazy and give stress.

Gastric Bypass Risk And Binge Eating

There has long been a debate over whether binge eating presents a gastric bypass risk and increases the possibility of a poor outcome following surgery. A recent report published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry may however shed new light on this argument.
The study carried out at the Yale University School of Medicine involved nearly 140 extremely obese patients and looked at their eating habits prior to surgery and then followed them up during the twelve months after gastric bypass surgery.
Of the study group, some 40 patients reported binge eating in the month before their operation and approximately ten percent of the study group were classified as meeting the criteria to be diagnosed as having binge eating disorder. It was also noted that those people classed as binge eaters were considerably more nervous about their impending surgery than the non-binge eaters.
Following surgery the study noted that there was no difference of note between the two groups and that both binge eaters and non-binge eaters showed virtually identical weight loss profiles in the twelve months after their gastric bypass.
Prior to surgery the average body mass index was 51.7, placing the group well over the body mass index figure of 40 which defines extreme, or morbid, obesity. One year after surgery this figure had fallen to just 33.3, bringing many of those in the study group close to a normal body mass index.

Hip and knee replacements surge as obesity grips Canada

Canadian citizens had an increasing number of hip and knee replacement surgeries -- up by 87 percent -- over the last decade, according to a new report from the annual Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). CIHI's report, issued Wednesday, links the increase in these procedures to both an aging population and obesity.
"The number of hip and knee replacement surgeries is increasing at a faster rate than the population is aging," said Margaret Keresteci -- CIHI's manager of Clinical Registries. According to the Canadian joint replacement registry's 2006 annual report, younger Canadians are undergoing hip and knee replacement procedures at an increasing rate, joining the bulk of hip and knee replacement recipients who are age 65 and older.
A decade ago -- from 1994 to 1995 -- Canadians over the age of 65 made up 71 percent of all hip and knee replacement surgeries. In 2006, that same age group now only accounts for 66 percent of all hip and knee replacement surgeries.
The registry's data shows that the largest increase in hip and knee replacement surgeries came between the ages of 45 and 54 this year. The number of hip replacements also doubled in amount during the last decade for that age group, as the number of knee replacements increased by 81 percent over that same period.
In totality, the changes in age grouping of hip and knee replacement surgeries in Canada point towards an overall increase in obesity -- which may be playing a role in the number of surgeries. From 2004 to 2005, 90 percent knee replacement patients were considered overweight or obese, along with 80 percent of hip replacement patients.
CIHI's Keresteci went on to add that "there is an association between obesity and the increased risk of osteoarthritis, which is the most common diagnosis in joint replacement surgery."
The annual report by the CIHI includes information from its hospital morbidity database and the Canadian joint replacement registry as well. CIHI's latest report also shows that the number of knee replacements surpassed the number hip replacements in the past decade, as 33,590 knee replacements and 25,124 hip replacements were performed over that time period.