Stories Tagged ‘weight and health’
Overweight and Diabetes
A Closer Look at Over Weight and Diabetes Perhaps the strongest association between weight gain, metabolic abnormalities, and disease risk is found with type 2 diabetes. (Type 1 diabetes typically affects younger people and is caused by the pancreas not producing insulin.) A majority of people who have type 2 diabetes are also overweight, and the incidence of type 2 diabetes is increasing as t... More »
Lose Weight With Exercise
You can lose weight with exercise alone? Nobody is going to tell you that exercise is not a good thing. It offers many health benefits - better sleep, reduced stress, improved strength and muscle tone, and it puts you in a better mood. It also burns calories. So it makes sense that increasing physical activity be part of the weight-loss formula. But exercise as a weight-loss method has limitat... More »
Link between Weight and Health
The Link between Weight and Health Weight and health are strongly related to each other. Disease risk goes up slowly as weight gain pushes you out of the healthy weight range and into the o verweight range. Your risk of disease and death increase significantly if extra weight puts you in the obese range. One study reported that obesity in middle age reduces life expectancy by seven years... More »
