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...August they launched AmendforArnold.com The battle has been joined. After seeing the ads, Alex Jones, a Texas-based radio-talk-show host, launched ArnoldExposed.com His group--Americans Against Arnold--alleges that the Governor is "a megalomaniac with aspirations of being a dictator." Just a matter of time until Weight Lifters for Truth gets into the game. --By Perry Bacon...
Michael Robinson, 35, is young enough to remember his glory days playing college basketball, which was one reason he was so surprised when just walking to his car started to wear him out. Robinson's weight certainly didn't help: 345 lbs. is a load to carry, even on a 6-ft. 9-in. frame. His family history worked against him too. Both his parents have high blood pressure, and his father and brother are diabetic. And he didn't do himself any favors by allowing seven years to elapse since his last checkup. When his persistent fatigue finally drove...
...supposed to get this far. Not all that long ago, the battle against hypertension was touted as one of the U.S.'s great public-health success stories. Almost absurdly easy to detect--a few painless seconds with a pressure cuff does it--hypertension is comparatively simple to treat with weight loss, lifestyle changes and a little medication. In the 1970s, doctors began tackling the condition aggressively, and as the percentage of people being treated crept up, the incidence of hypertension-related conditions fell. Strokes alone declined more than 50% from 1972 to 1994. Clearly, the country was closing...
Controlling weight is also vital. The body tunes and retunes a lot of dials to keep its blood pressure balanced, and obesity twists those knobs in all the wrong ways. For one thing, increased body mass means higher blood volume, straining the circulatory system. Carrying extra weight also causes the heart to overwork--no favor to a left ventricle that may already be enlarged. Additionally, people who are overweight generally don't get that way eating fruits, vegetables and lean meats; their diet tends to be high in salt, fats and processed foods, just the things hypertension feasts...
Another variable is not just how much weight you're carrying but where you're carrying it. Most of our swaddling of fat is located under the skin and over the muscle, but around the abdomen there is another layer beneath the muscles. This so-called visceral fat produces inflammatory molecules that lead to insulin resistance and diabetes. The same molecules also destroy nitric oxide, which is critical to the ability of the blood vessels to relax. "Central fat is a linchpin in the abnormalities that lead to hypertension," says Dr. James Sowers of the Downstate Medical Center...