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...Washington in Seattle found that among the women they studied, those who had babies weighing less than 51/2 lbs. were twice as likely to have had dental X rays. Researchers were quick to say they didn't know how radiation might affect pregnancy or whether the babies' low birth weight was due to X-ray exposure alone. Whatever the risk, say the study's authors, it's small. They recommend that pregnant women not forgo necessary dental care...
...would argue that regular exercise and weight loss are not good for your health, but results from a large study of women with heart problems suggest that sometimes it's better to be fit than thin. 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...
Carrying too much weight--particularly around the belly--increases your risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. Shedding the extra pounds will make you healthier--if you shed them the right way. Liposuction, a quick and increasingly popular way to lose weight, may not necessarily do the trick. Researchers writing in the New England Journal of Medicine described the plight of 15 obese women, each of whom had about 20 lbs. of abdominal fat surgically removed. Three months later, none of the women showed any improvement in insulin sensitivity, cholesterol level, blood pressure or other risk factors...
...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...
...travelers are getting so large, they're dragging down the airline industry. The weight of the average U.S. adult has increased about 10 lbs. since the early 1990s, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, and it's costing millions of dollars more for airlines to haul the heavier load. In a letter to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control calculated that planes burned 350 million gal. more fuel in 2000--at an additional cost of $275 million--than they would have if passengers had weighed on average 10 lbs. less. There...