Word: overweighting
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...disease risk by cutting their level of LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol, from the previous target of below 100 mg/dL to below 70 mg/dL. Even people at moderate risk of a heart attack--those with two or more risk factors, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, being overweight or a family history of heart disease--should lower their LDL to below 100 mg/dL instead of the previously recommended 129 mg/dL or under...
...Active women, no matter how thin or fat, were much less likely to have a heart attack and other cardiac problems than women who didn't exercise, according to the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation. But weight does matter. Researchers in the ongoing Women's Health Study found that overweight and obese women--regardless of how regularly they exercised--were as much as nine times as likely to develop diabetes as women of normal weight. Bottom line? Get active and stay trim...
Americans in every age group are getting plumper and plumper. The number of overweight children ages 6 to 11 doubled between 1980 and 2000, and tripled among adolescents ages 12 to 17. Even the elderly are getting fat. The latest statistics show that 70% of Americans between the ages of 55 and 74 are overweight or obese, twice the percentage of 30 years...
...medical consequences of carrying around all this excess weight were made clear by a study published this month in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. A survey of 73,000 adults conducted by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle showed that being overweight significantly increases the risk of a long list of medical complaints, including coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, depression, deep-vein thrombosis, osteoarthritis, fatigue, insomnia, indigestion, impotence and hip- and knee-replacement surgery...
...cause-and-effect universe of epidemiology, societies get the blood pressure they deserve, and we Americans have earned ourselves some huge problems. We are heavier than we have ever been, with 65% either overweight or obeseincluding 15% of kids. We're lazy too. Only 24% of us exercise vigorously at least three times a week. We smoke too much (22% of adults still light up), drink too much, and with our fetish for fast and processed foods, we're practically pickling ourselves with salt...