Word: overweightness
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...standards - where some nine million children are overweight - the children included in the Danish paper would have barely made the cutoff for "overweight." Merely being chubby it seems - let alone obese - can be a serious health risk. "Our study shows that even a few excess pounds or kilograms of weight can damage future health," Baker says...
According to the American Heart Association, nearly one in five American children between the ages of 6 and 11 are overweight. Perhaps that statistic doesn’t resound as much as it should—it means that nearly one in five children today are already on track for developing type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, sleep apnea, and the whole glut of diseases and disorders associated with obesity. If America’s dire obesity epidemic is to be contained, decisive action must be taken in the interest of the public health, starting with policies that encourage children...
...obesity epidemic, meanwhile, is swelling quickly. The World Health Organization estimates that a billion people worldwide are overweight, and 300 million are obese; more than a third of U.S. adults are now obese. So, why is it so hard to lose weight? "It looks very simple: People need to eat less and exercise more," Padwal says. "But if you drill down it's more complicated." Telling a single mother who works full-time that she should take a brisk walk in the inner city after work each day is not the most practical advice - she's unlikely...
...people who are very overweight or obese, Padwal says, virtually the only intervention that consistently gives impressive results is radical surgery, like gastric bypass. To curb the obesity epidemic, he says, patients need good old-fashioned commitment: They have to follow through with their weight-loss plan long-term, monitoring and adjusting it year after year. But, for now, he still prescribes anti-obesity drugs...
...routine case: Manuel was an office worker, 31 years old, a little overweight but in otherwise good shape. The two half-inch-long incisions I made on his knee doing arthroscopic surgery had not healed when he came to my office a week afterward to get his stitches out. So I had him come back a week later, then two more weeks later. The knee joint was ok but at the fourth week I was still staring at two gaping holes in unhealed skin. They were like cuts on a cadaver; it was creepy. There didn't seem...