A Stressed Mother's Offspring At Greater Risk For Abdominal Obesity

More crap from the excusinators.

Really, what mother is not stressed on occasion?

New research in the FASEB Journal suggests that the neuropeptide Y in plasma and its Y2 receptor in visceral fat play an important role in obesity.

A new report involving mice suggests that a relationship exists between maternal metabolic or psychological stress and the development of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome in her offspring. What's more, the report shows that if the stress cannot be reduced or eliminated, manipulating the neuropeptide Y (NPY) system in visceral fat may prevent maternal stress-induced obesity from occurring in the next generation. This discovery is reported in...The FASEB Journal.

"Discovery" as in S-H-*-T.

Turning White Fat Into Energy-Burning Brown Fat: New Hope for New Obesity and Diabetes Treatments

"Hope" is not an action plan.

Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have identified a mechanism that can give energy-storing white fat some of the beneficial characteristics of energy-burning brown fat. The findings, based on studies of mice and of human fat tissue, could lead to new strategies for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes.

More dangling of shiny objects in front of fat people stupid enough to be dazzled and too stupid to realize it ain't gonna happen.

Proper Regulation Could Reduce Up To 50% Of Cardiovascular Disease Deaths In Europe

Collective punishment and an idiot's approach.

Up to 50% of deaths from cardiovascular disease in Europe could be avoided by implementing population level changes such as taxation and regulation of advertising. Population level prevention will produce greater impacts on CVD than individualised approaches, according to the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

The better, and only approach that will work, is to have the fat pay more for their sick care and items they use uniquely, e.g., uber-sized clothes, Nimitz-Class wheelchairs, etc.

As to these folks who favor hurting the rest of us.

Lock 'em up.

Large Waist Circumference In Men May Predict Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms, Sexual Dysfunction

If only the sexual dysfunction could keep all of them from reproducing.

Men with large waists urinate more frequently than their slimmer counterparts, according to research in the August issue of the urology journal BJUI.

Researchers from Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, found that men with waists measuring 100cm plus reported up to three times more urinary problems than men with waists of 90cm or less.

They also found that larger waist measurements were associated with a greater prevalence of high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and erection and ejaculation problems.

We can only hope.

Childhood Obesity May Affect Puberty, Create Problems With Reproduction

Fat parents have fat kids.

More nutritional child abuse.

A dramatic increase in childhood obesity in recent decades may have impacts that go beyond the usual health concerns - it could be disrupting the timing of puberty and ultimately lead to a diminished ability to reproduce, especially in females.

A body of research suggests that obesity could be related to growing problems with infertility, scientists said in a recent review, in addition to a host of other physical and psycho-social concerns. The analysis was published in Frontiers in Endocrinology.

Stop the abuse.

Hold parents accountable.

Study Suggests Obesity Is Due To Increased Food Consumption, Not Decreased Energy Expenditure

Right conclusion.

Modern lifestyles are generally quite different from those of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, a fact that some claim as the cause of the current rise in global obesity, but new results published in the open access journal PLoS ONE find that there is no difference between the energy expenditure of modern hunter-gatherers and Westerners, casting doubt on this theory.

The research team behind the study, led by Herman Pontzer of Hunter College in New York City, along with David Raichlen of the University of Arizona and Brian M. Wood of Stanford measured daily energy expenditure (calories per day) among the Hadza, a population of traditional hunter-gatherers living in the open savannah of northern Tanzania. Despite spending their days trekking long distances to forage for wild plants and game, the Hadza burned no more calories each day than adults in the U.S. and Europe. The team ran several analyses accounting for the effects of body weight, body fat percentage, age, and gender. In all analyses, daily energy expenditure among the Hadza hunter-gatherers was indistinguishable from that of Westerners. The study was the first to measure energy expenditure in hunter-gatherers directly; previous studies had relied entirely on estimates.

These findings upend the long-held assumption that our hunter-gatherer ancestors expended more energy than modern populations, and challenge the view that obesity in Western populations results from decreased energy expenditure. Instead, the similarity in daily energy expenditure across a broad range of lifestyles suggests that habitual metabolic rates are relatively constant among human populations. This in turn supports the view that the current rise in obesity is due to increased food consumption, not decreased energy expenditure.

With certainty.

Fragility Fractures Require Automatic Patient Follow-up

Two words - Anabolic Clinic (sm).

And these folks are wrong, BTW.

Fragility fractures need to be linked automatically with provision of care that would assess patients for future risk for fracture and prevent new fractures, according to the conclusions of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) Task Force on Secondary Fracture Prevention.

John A. Eisman, MBBS, PhD, professor of medicine at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and colleagues presented their report in an article published online July 26 and in the September print issue of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

"Despite the major health care impact worldwide, currently there are few systems in place to identify and 'capture' individuals after a fragility fracture to ensure appropriate assessment and treatment (according to national guidelines) to reduce future fracture risk and adverse health outcomes," Dr. Eisman and colleagues write.

The task force, which included representatives from 36 countries, reviewed evidence regarding interventional approaches, including fracture liaison services (FLS), after fracture. "The purpose of this report is to provide a logical background, medical and ethical rationale, and toolkit for reducing secondary fracture incidence, particularly hip fractures, and health care costs," the authors write.

"Fractures Beget Fractures" "Fractures beget fractures and lead to untold suffering. Our task force looked at ways to break this vicious cycle," report cochair Ethel S. Siris, MD, from the Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York City, noted in an ASBMR news release. "We learned what works and what doesn't. The research is clear: Fracture liaison services are saving suffering, and they are saving money," she stated.

Fragility fractures should be PREVENTED.

How?

Anabolic substances. See here, here and here.

Tool That Helps Dietitians Deliver Info Clients Need And Can Understand

More evidence that the worse than useless dietitians have been giving clients the short shrift.

If you've consulted with a nutrition educator about how best to lose weight or manage your diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol, you may not have learned as much as you could have, said a University of Illinois professor of nutrition extension.

"Only 80 percent of the dietitians we surveyed did any pre-assessment of the client's nutrition literacy, which makes it difficult for educators to target their counseling so clients can understand and act on the information they are given," said Karen Chapman-Novakofski, also a registered dietitian.

Chapman-Novakofski's recent doctoral student Heather Gibbs has developed an algorithm that dietitians can use to determine precisely what knowledge and skills are required for a particular client.

Having dietitians been selling their services on the basis of how they personalize diets for their clients?

Now we are told that not only do clients not learn all they apparently should, but heretofore there was no "algorithm that dietitians can use to determine precisely what knowledge and skills are required for a particular client."

If you want to lose weight and eat healthily, go here and here.

Don't go to a dietitian or conventional "weight loss expert."

Half of Heart Patients Don't Stick to Their Meds

So when they run into a complication, the rest of us should be off the hook when it comes to paying, right?

Just half of people who are given a prescription to prevent heart disease continue to get their medications refilled over time, according to a new review of several studies. The studies looked at seven medications, including aspirin, blood pressure drugs, and statins, typically intended for life-long use. Data from 20 studies suggested the rate at which people continue taking the drugs ranges from 30% to 80%. Among people who have already had a heart attack, one out of every three fails to continue getting their prescription refilled.

Hey, not our fault.

Hospitalizing Kids for Hypertension: Stop the Trend Now!

Fat kids are more likely to be hypertensive. Fat parents have fat kids. That there is even a "trend," is an embarrassment.

This article highlights an analysis of trends in pediatric hypertension-related hospitalizations (HRHs) from 1997 to 2006 using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids' Inpatient Database, a comprehensive dataset that is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and represents all payers in the United States. The data cohorts hospitalized in 1997, 2000, 2003, and 2006 were searched for all discharges for which hypertension was designated as a primary or secondary diagnosis. Factors associated with the odds of this diagnosis were assessed using logistic regression from a candidate group of variables (age, race, sex, insurance status, median income, hospital teaching status, hospital region, and survey year).

Nutritional child abuse strikes again.

Organs Transplanted From Overweight Donors Increase Risks For Recipients

Fatosity so virulent it metastasizes from one person to another.

Obesity is a worldwide health problem. According to estimations from a 2008 World Health Organization (WHO) report, 1.4 billion adults were overweight, including 200 million men and 300 million women classified as obese. A 2010 WHO report also states that over 40 million children under the age of five were overweight. Experts say that the rate of children rates of being overweight and obesity have increased amongst children and now exceed 30% in the U.S. A study published in the August edition of Liver Transplantation has revealed that children who have a liver transplantation are at greater risk of graft loss and death from adult organ donors who are severely obese.

Nutritional child abuse at a distance. Kudos, fatsos.

Doctors Not Being Taught About Benefits Of Exercise

Just as well. Exercise has almost no benefits.

Training does.

The online version of the British Journal of Sports Medicine reports that the curriculum for physical activity in UK medical schools is "sparse or non-existent."

This gap in knowledge means that future doctors will have insufficient knowledge to effectively promote physical activity to their patients, which results in a failure to help combating serious diseases that are linked to insufficient exercise according to the study authors.

It would be a waste anyway since docs are just as out of shape as the rest of the public.

If they do not follow a training program, they have no bona fides to prescribe one for anyone else.

Sexual Dissatisfaction Is Common Among Female Diabetes Patients

Type 2 diabetes is fat person diabetes.

Imagine how unsatisfying it must be for their partners.

A study by UCSF researchers and published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology reveals that the level of sexual desire and sexual activity is similar in diabetic women and non-diabetic women, even though women suffering from diabetes are more likely to report low overall sexual satisfying action. In the U.S., diabetes is a common, chronic condition that affects 12.6 million people - 10.8% are women aged 20 years or older, according to estimates by the American Diabetes Association. Diabetes can affect a woman's sexual function in various ways, including vascular changes in the urogenital tissues that affect lubrication, and changes in genital arousal response. The researchers state that diabetes medication and other interventions linked to monitoring or treating the disease may also adversely affect sexual function.

Puke, anyone?

Typical one-time partner of a fat woman:



"One-time" since after that he "sees" with what he is dealing.

Test Shows Subconscious 'Stop Signs' Can Help Control Overeating

Won't work.

Once you pop the top of a tube of potato chips, it can be hard to stop munching its contents. But Cornell University researchers may have found a novel way to help: edible serving-size markers that act as subconscious stop signs. As part of an experiment carried out on two groups of college students (98 students total) while they were watching video clips in class, researchers from Cornell's Food and Brand Lab served tubes potato chips, some of which contained chips dyed red. Researchers found that the red chips served as subconscious "stop signs" that curtailed the amount of food consumed.

Just like any other stop sign, the determined, in this case the fat, will ignore it.

Because they will not be satisfied with the so-called portion.

Remember, when an elephant goes on a diet it eats like a horse.

It is just a matter of time before they say, "Neigh."

Why Do Anti-Hunger And Anti-Obesity Initiatives Always Fall Short?

I know.

With widespread hunger continuing to haunt developing nations, and obesity fast becoming a global epidemic, any number of efforts on the parts of governments, scientists, non-profit organizations and the business world have taken aim at these twin nutrition-related crises. But all of these efforts have failed to make a large dent in the problems, and now an unusual international collaboration of researchers is explaining why.

Publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers argue that while hunger and obesity are caused by a perfect storm of multiple factors acting in concert, the efforts to counter them have been narrowly focused and isolated. Overcoming the many barriers to achieving healthy nutrition worldwide, the researchers argue, will instead require an unprecedented level of joint planning and action between academia, government, civil society and industry.

In particular, the authors of the papers in the PNAS special feature propose an ambitious plan to remake the ways food is grown, processed, distributed, sold and consumed. The plan focuses on innovations that simultaneously take into account the needs of farmers, the complexity of nutrition-related human biology and decision-making, and the power of profit incentives in the commercial sector. The result, the researchers say, is "a roadmap for a transdisciplinary science to support change of sufficient scale and scope" to carve out "an alternative path from tradition to industrialization" -- one that "promotes healthy lifestyles and environments rather than undermining them."

Nope.

It is none of this crap.

It is that people are too weenie and soft and incapable of assuming responsibly for themselves and their behavior.

Next!

Increased Risk Of Post-Surgical Infection After Orthopaedic Trauma, Total Joint Replacement In Patients With High Blood Sugar, Obesity

Type 2 diabetes is fat person diabetes.

This is good news! Another illness/complication of choice for which we do not have to pay.

Two recent studies in the July issues of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) looked at surgical site infections and hyperglycemia, the technical term for high blood glucose, or high blood sugar. According to the first study "Relationship of Hyperglycemia and Surgical-Site Infection in Orthopaedic Surgery," high blood sugar is a concern during the post-traumatic and post-operative period and it may help to preoperatively identify a population of patients with musculoskeletal injuries who are at significant risk for infectious complications.

Nearly, one-third of patients who are admitted to the hospital without a history of diabetes have hyperglycemia, which is associated with a longer hospital stay, higher rates of admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), and increased mortality.

Hooray!

Diabetic Women More Likely To Experience Sexual Dissatisfaction

So are their partners.

Women with diabetes are just as likely to be interested in, and engage in, sexual activity as non-diabetic women, but they are much more likely to report low overall sexual satisfaction, according to a UCSF study. The researchers also found that diabetic women receiving insulin treatment were at higher risk for the specific complications of lubrication and orgasm. "Diabetes is a recognized risk factor for erectile dysfunction in men, but there have been almost no data to indicate whether it also affects sexual function in women," said senior author Alison J. Huang, MD, MAS, of the UCSF Women's Health Clinical Research Center and an assistant professor in the UCSF Department of Medicine. The study is available online in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Type 2 diabetes is fat person diabetes.



Yuck.

In-Utero Exposure to Magnetic Fields Associated With Increased Risk of Obesity in Childhood

This is it!

This is the key to fatosity.

In-utero exposure to relatively high magnetic field levels was associated with a 69 percent increased risk of being obese or overweight during childhood compared to lower in-utero magnetic field levels, according to a Kaiser Permanente study that appears in the current online version of Nature's Scientific Reports.

Researchers conducted the prospective cohort study, in which participating women in Kaiser Permanente's Northern California region carried a meter measuring magnetic field levels during pregnancy and 733 of their children were followed up to 13 years, to collect clinically recorded information on growth patterns. On average, 33 weight measurements per child were collected.

Researchers noted a dose response relationship with increasing in-utero magnetic field levels being associated with further increased risk of obesity or being overweight. The observed association and supporting evidence provide the first epidemiologic findings that link increasing exposure to environmental magnetic fields, especially in-utero exposure, over the last few decades with the rapid rise in childhood obesity during the corresponding decades, according to the authors.

"Pregnancy is a critical developmental stage that is among the most vulnerable periods to environmental exposures," said De-Kun Li, MD, PhD, a perinatal epidemiologist with the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research in Oakland, Calif., and the lead author of the study. "These findings indicate that electromagnetic fields, from microwave ovens to countless wireless devices, may be contributing to childhood obesity risk. This finding could have implications for possibly reducing childhood obesity and better understanding the obesity epidemic. Like any scientific discoveries, the results need to be replicated by other studies."

How unfortunate for the fat that the magnetic fields are not the ones that attract but make them repellent.

Too bad.

Childhood Obesity Linked To 50% Higher Risk Of Urothelial And Colorectal Cancers In Adulthood

More nutritional child abuse.

Parents are increasingly conscious of the dangers of childhood obesity. There is a growing recognition of health problems associated with extra pounds, including the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and joint and muscle pain.

New research from Tel Aviv University has revealed another significant reason for children to maintain a healthy weight. Dr. Ari Shamiss and Dr. Adi Leiba of TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Sheba Medical Center and his fellow researchers found that obesity in adolescence, defined as a Body Mass Index (BMI) in the 85th percentile and above, has a direct link to the incidence of urothelial (bladder and urinary tract) and colorectal cancers in adulthood. According to the American Heart Association, one in three children and teenagers are now considered overweight or obese.

Children above the 84th percentile in BMI have a 1.42% greater chance, representing a 50% higher risk, of developing urothelial or colorectal cancers in adulthood compared to those beneath it, explains Dr. Shamiss, whose research has been published in the journals Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention and Obesity.

Hold the parents accountable and save some kids.

Raisins Found To Be As Effective As Sports Chews For Fueling Workouts

Almost certainly true despite the involvement of a trade group.

New research published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition suggests that eating raisins may provide the same workout boost as sports chews.

Conducted by researchers at the University of California-Davis, the study evaluated the effects that natural versus commercial carbohydrate supplements have on endurance running performance. Runners depleted their glycogen stores in an 80-minute 75% V02 max run followed by a 5k time trial. Runners completed three randomized trials (raisins, chews and water only) separated by seven days. Findings included:
Those that ingested raisins or sports chews ran their 5k on average one minute faster than those that ingested only water
Eating raisins and sports chews promoted higher carbohydrate oxidation compared to water only
"Raisins are a great alternative to sport chews as they also provide fiber and micronutrients, such as potassium and iron, and they do not have any added sugar, artificial flavor or colors," said James Painter, Ph.D., R.D., and nutrition research advisor for the California Raisin Marketing Board.

When it comes to fueling many physical activities, simple carbs are the way to go.

And raisins are chock-full of sugar.