Archive for the ‘Obesity’ Category

November 28 2009

How do I Measure Obesity?

If it can be avoided, why do not we stay away from the cause of obesity? Overweight or obesity is a global problem, which can hit people in developed and developing countries. Impact, such as diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, targeting people infected.

If someone is positive for diabetes, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, then it is called having metabolic syndrome. To determine metabolic syndrome, or collection of clinical symptoms associated with obesity, there paramater. Among other abdominal circumference, liguis tongue (the fat content in the neck), blood pressure, levels of HDL (good cholesterol), and blood sugar.

The main cause is the wrong diet, and lack of physical activity. World Health Organization (WHO) calls obesity as a dangerous disease. Because it concerns the degree of health problems.

According to Dr Widjaja Lukito, PhD, SEAMEO-TROPMED diirektur, at a workshop entitled Real Life Application of Overweight and Obesity Management in Bandung a few moments ago, being overweight is a problem for everyone because most everyone has made mistakes in managing diet. In addition, many people do not know how to combine food, and often consume a diet containing fat (fat meals).

Symptoms that can lead to overweight and obesity is hunger and appetite. Hunger is as hungry as the conditions that people must eat. While appetite associated with appetite.

“I see, the problem is not from food but the fat contained in food. This means that each human being should consider a healthy diet, fat content of food eaten should be low, and the nutrients in it must be balanced,” said Widjaja.

Danger for women
Overweight and obesity not only affects health because it can cause complications illnesses. Rather, it is also at risk for psychological. Someone who will suffer a crisis of confidence due to being overweight.

The most dangerous, said Widjaja, if this happens to women. “Women who are overweight at risk of infertility, difficult to get a descent,” he said.

Obesity in children affects IQ (intelligence). IQ decline caused by neck size so that the respiratory tract affected. Oksigenisasi indirectly to the brain does not go smoothly. Therefore, the child experienced endurance, endurance studies disrupted. Of course, this can affect learning achievement.

Widjaja said the Indonesian people, especially in urban areas, tend to rarely perform physical activity. The number of facilities available, such as freight transportation, elevators, and other community causes do not want to walk.

In addition, lack of awareness of exercise such as walking, swimming, and gymnastics. Walking is the most expensive sport and safe to do. Although only 15 minutes, walk a very big effect because it can burn calories in the body.

Measuring Calories
To find out how many calories are burned during physical activity is a tool called a Pedometer. Simply lightweight, this tool is easy to carry everywhere. Shaped like a pager, which can be stored at the waist.

In addition, there is a tool to measure waist circumference waist named type. The shape is quite unique, small, and easy to carry. How to use it fairly easily. Namely, hip circumference divided by hip circumference, the results should not be more than one. If more, it shows no accumulation of fat around the abdomen and pelvis. Normal waist circumference for women less than 80 cm. Meanwhile, for men less than 90 cm.

Body mass index (BMI)-Calculator is a tool to determine the size of the body. The tool is shaped like a compass, to show the height and weight. By comparing height and weight, we will know the size of our bodies. Is your body thin, normal, overweight, obesity, or extreme obesity.

What to Look For
There are several things to note if you are overweight. If you want to and have the desire, it is not difficult for you to lose weight. According to Dr Widjaja Lukito, PhD, SEAMEO-TROPMED diirektur, doing regular physical activity of exercise for 30 minutes every day, consumption of foods low in fat, adjust your diet, consider that food consumed, and set to a variety of foods.

The definition of regular eating pattern that is in one meal should be vegetables, fruits, and nuts. “Food is too salty or sweet, bad for health,” he explained.

Raw foods containing high fiber such as purine, cholesterol, saturated fat is not a single, sodium, and potassium, may be easier for you to undergo a diet program and may prevent certain diseases.

It is also important to implement evaluation and monitoring. This is useful for monitoring the development of weight so the number of calories in and out can be known.

November 27 2009

Breast Cancer Risk in Women Fat

WOMEN fat more breast cancer risk than those who weighed a normal body. In breast cancer they are also faster growing. Thus the results of a study published in the journal National Cancer Institute, recently.

Researchers say this has nothing to do with a mammogram performed at least a fat woman.

According to Dr. Karla Kerlikowske, as reported by Reuters Health, even taking into account how many times they do a screening to detect breast cancer, obese women have a risk of breast cancer 10% higher. As for the possibility of developing the disease becomes more severe for 56 to 82 percent.

In addition researchers also confirmed that it was not because a mammogram is less accurate when performed in women with excess weight. “We can show that the detection of breast tumors can be done easily in those who are overweight.

So the increased risk of this disease is not because not detected by mammogram, “Kerlikowske said.

“It is noteworthy that women routinely perform mammography and keep your weight balanced, two things that can reduce their chance of breast cancer,” added Kerlikoswke, physician San Francisco VA Medical Center and professor of health, epidemiology, and biostatistics University of California, San Francisco.

Since 1996 until 2005, Kerlikoswke and mammography colleagues collected data on 287,115 women who had experienced menopause and hormone therapy. As many as 4446 of them were diagnosed with breast cancer one year after mammography tests.

Researchers found that the risk of these diseases higher on their obesity.

“The reason was probably due to circulating estrogen wanitas obesity rises, so can trigger tumor growth,” said Kerlikowske.

Fortunately, he added, this is a risk factor that can be controlled. How to maintain ideal weight and not consume postmenopausal hormones.

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High Protein Food and Obesity

FOOD high in protein can help obese people burn more fat, so the results of a small study conducted Marijka Dr Batterham and colleagues from the University of Wollongong, New South Wales.

In this new study Australian scientists to test whether the composition of proteins in different foods affect weight.
They found that people who are overweight to burn more fat when they finished eating foods that contain high protein.

A number of studies have shown that high-protein diets can help people lose weight. Therefore, proteins are better able to suppress the desire to eat than fat or carbohydrates.

This study has not proved, but there is hope that the increased burning of fat can mean weight loss for a long time though. But to ensure it still needed further research.

The findings are published in the journal Nutrition & Dietetics is based on a study of 18 adults with metabolism after eating her tested for three different days. The participants’ average age was 40 years, 8 of them overweight, normal 6, and 4 obesity.

On one day they were given breakfast and lunch menus have been determined, consisting of 58 percent carbohydrates and 14 percent protein. At other times during the two days they made a balanced diet, consisting of one third of calories come from protein, and another third of the carbohydrates.

Eight hours after eating, researchers found that those who are overweight and obese burn less fat than thinner counterparts. However, this difference disappeared when they consume high-protein foods.

Protein-rich foods in question include the low butter fat, lean beef, eggs, combined with vegetables and a source of carbohydrates.

Batterham said he and his colleagues are now testing whether the source of vegetable protein has a similar effect on the metabolism of fat people who are overweight.

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Weight Loss Cure Diabetes

New Study published in the journal American Health Association (American Medical Association) showed that weight-loss surgery can cure diabetes.

In this study, Australian researchers found that patients who undergo surgery to reduce the size of the stomach has a chance to recover from diabetes two years after the surgery five times higher than those who undergo the standard medical treatment.

“This is the best therapy for diabetes that we have today, and the risk is very low,” said study leader Dr John Dixon of Monash University Medical School in Melbourne, Australia.

Dixon and colleagues studied 60 men with a fat body mass index more than 30 but less than 40. Body mass index, or BMI, a ratio of height versus weight. BMI of 30 or greater is considered obese.

All of these patients had been diagnosed with obesity and type 2 diabetes during the last two years. Their ages average 47 years.
Half of patients undergoing abdominal surgery circumference, while the rest of the usual treatment.

Throughout the study, the research team to observe whether there is the possibility of weight loss through surgery can be an effective treatment for type 2 diabetes.

The result is known as much as 75% of patients who undergo surgery for abdominal circumference, diabetes disappear within two years after surgery. As to those who undergo normal treatment, only 13% are cured of diabetes.

In addition, those who undergo stomach surgery lose weight up to 20.7% after two years, far higher than the weight loss achieved by those undergoing normal treatment, only 1.7%.

“An important finding in this study is the level of weight loss, not the method, seems to be the prime mover and the loss of glycaemic improvement of diabetes in obese patients,” said Dixon.

“This has important implications, because it shows that intensive therapy weight loss may be the first step to more effective against diabetes than changes in simple lifestyle,” he said.

But Dixon says caution is needed in interpreting the long-term benefits of weight loss surgery. (suaramerdeka.com)

November 26 2009

Obesity in Women Affected Vulnerable Ovary Cancer

According do research on scientists in the United States proved that women are more susceptible to obesity
malignant ovarian cancer and the risk of death.
As previously known, obesity is increasing the risk of development of some types of cancer, but recent research reveals that fat tissue affects the development of tumors.
The scientists believe that fat cells produce hormones or proteins to make developing ovarian cancer more rapidly. Thus the results of a study published in the journal Cancer.
Malignant tumors

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“This is the first study to identify weight as a separate factor that makes a malignant ovarian cancer. There are certain elements of fatty tissue that causes the development of this disease in obese women,” said head of research, Dr. Andrew Li.
This research is based on 216 women suffering from epithelial ovarian cancer, ovarian cancers are most common, or about 90 percent of all cases.
This study compared 35 obese women with 108 women who had an ideal weight to see any significant difference in the appearance of cancer.
Apparently, obesity affects the body’s resistance. Those who are obese cancer cells could arise again after the treatment and the risk of death.
According Dr.Li next step after this study is to examine how fat affects the growth of tumors.
Ovarian cancer is the most common cause of death in women. Also commonly referred to as the silent killer because in the early phase there is no specific complaints (asymptomatic) so that new patients usually come in an advanced stage.
“The results of these studies are too small to test the number of patients so further research is needed to prove the link between obesity with the growth of cancer cells,” said Dr Laura-Jane Armstrong, of Cancer Research, UK.
While awaiting the results of further research, there is no harm in us keeping weight to reduce cancer risk.

The women need to maintain weight because of their excessive weight are at risk of ovarian cancer (ovarian) higher compared with women who are not obese (overweight).

Ovarian cancer is the most common cause of death of all gynecologic cancers. Types of cancer are difficult to treat early because the early stages usually occur almost without symptoms.

Yet there are some symptoms that need to be suspected of ovarian cancer.

In the early stages, the symptoms that arise in the form ganguan menstruation. But unlike cervical cancer can be detected with a pap smear method, then there is no way to detect ovarian cancer.

Until now, not known for certain causes of ovarian cancer. However, the factors of excessive drug use may trigger suspicion of ovarian cancer.

In addition, the use of fertility drugs in the long term is also thought to be
increase the risk of the disease. Genetic factors may also be a reference because as much as 10 percent of sufferers have a family who were also suffering from ovarian cancer.

Now, a study in the United States (U.S.) linking obesity with an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer.

The study involved more than 94,000 women aged 51 to 71 years, who were followed for more than seven years. The results of the study, as quoted by Reuters, showed that women who are obese have a higher chance for ovarian cancer.

Risk was increased among women who never make hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopause. Previously conducted studies linking hormone used to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer.

Among women who never did HRT, those who are overweight have a risk of 83 percent higher ovairum cancer than women with normal weight.

The discovery, reported in the journal Cancer also shows that obesity is a risk factor for ovarian cancer that can be controlled.

According to the principal investigator in the study, Dr. Michael L Leitzman of the National Cancer Institute United States (U.S.) in Bethesda, Maryland and the University of Regensburg in Germany, results. study provides one more reason for women to avoid weight gain is not healthy.

“Our data indicate that maintaining a healthy weight associated with a reduced risk of ovarian cancer development,” Leitzmann said.

Not clear why obesity has contributed to ovarian cancer, but maybe it’s related to the effects of excess body fat to levels of estrogen in the body of a woman, says Leitzmann and its partners.

The fact that the risk of ovarian cancer is dependent on the use of HRT to support this theory.

The study also found a link between obesity at age 18 years and an increased risk of ovarian cancer in older age? – An association was even stronger than the link between obesity at age further and ovarian cancer.

Weight in adolescence may be more relevant to ovarian cancer than weight at age further.

Other studies will be undertaken by scientists at the U.S. also showed that women who are obese are more susceptible to malignant ovarian cancer.

Obesity is increasing the risk of developing some types of cancer, but research revealed that fat tissue affects tumor development.

According to research published in the journal Cancer, the fat cells produce hormones or proteins to make developing ovarian cancer more rapidly.

Lead researcher Dr Andrew Li said the study involved 216 women suffering from epithelial ovarian cancer, ovarian cancers are most common, or about 90 percent of all cases.

The study compared 35 women who are obese with the 108 women who had normal weight to see significant differences in the appearance of cancer.

Apparently, obesity affects the body’s resistance. Those who are obese, cancer cells can arise again after the treatment and the risk of death.

To identify ovarian cancer, the American Cancer Society announced the results of cancer experts consensus on ovarian cancer symptoms. Symptoms include swelling in the body, pain in the abdomen and pelvis, loss of appetite, frequent urination and pain during intercourse.

Frequent urination occurs when the tumor is pressing if the rectum or bladder. Can also occur emphasis on stretching or pelvic area causing pain.

Site Dharmais Cancer hospital at an advanced stage mentioned symptoms associated with ascites (accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity) spread to the omentum (abdominal fat) and organs in the abdominal cavity, such as the intestine and liver. Symptoms appear, such as stomach bulge, bloating, nausea, appetite disorders, irritable bowel and urination.

If you find these symptoms, the patient should immediately see a doctor for further tests to detect ovarian cysts or enlargement.

Examination is recommended in women with high risk factors, namely women who had early first menstruation and late menopause, never or difficulty conceiving, a history of ovarian cancer in families, and women with breast cancer and colon cancer.

Ovarian cancer patients reported in Indonesia continues to increase every year.

Ovarian cancer would be much easier to heal if its existence is known in the early stages of growth.