The estimates are very high, and the researchers agreed that it's very hard to pinpoint medical conditions that are not worsened or made more expensive by being obese.Obesity Care Costs Double What Was Previously Estimated By: Tom Carolan About the Author BestHealthcareRates.com has helped thousands of individuals, families & businesses find affordable medical insurance or family medical insurance. BestHealthcareRates.com is...more
The increase in consumption of energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods with high levels of sugar and saturated fats such as the Krispy Kreme Cheeseburger, combined with reduced physical activity has led us to the brink of this public health crisis. Being overweight or obese is unhealthy for individual Americans and our nation as a whole. Ask not what your country can do for you but rather how many hula hoops you can do for it in an effort to reduce our...more
Every man, woman and child should adopt a goal of healthy eating. Whether the scale indicates you need to lose weight or not, excess unhealthy calories will cause fat to be stored in critical organs such as the liver, pancreas and heart. Over the course of years this fat accumulation will trigger disease. While taxation may be a short term fix to...more
Americans are fast becoming known as some of the old most obese an overweight in global populations. This is both worrisome and embarrassing to those living in the U.S., where, according to recent statistics.According to veteran news writer Bill Hendrick, writing for WebMD, obesity rates have increased in nearly half of the states in America in the...more
The extremely obese, who find it very difficult to lose weight through various weight loss programs turn to bariatric obesity surgery to lose weight. These weight loss surgery options are performed in three ways, which are mentioned below. In case of the first option, it is the most common form of bariatric surgery and is called gastric bypass surgery. Doctors create a small pouch near the stomach using stapling, which is connected to the small intestine. This reduces the size of the stomach so that the patient does not gain weight as easily as before. To help the body properly redirect nutrients and other materials, the upper area of the intestine is reattached to a new configuration. The second type of bariatric obesity surgery is mostly a malabsorptive process where the stomach size is not only reduced, but a part of the small intestine is also connected to a part of the stomach. This done, some parts of the intestine is bypassed wherein the body does not absorb some nutrients. Though this is a common surgery, those who undergo this process have to take lots of dietary supplements to avoid medical problems due to malnutrition. The third form of bariatric obesity surgery is...more
Obesity is commonly characterized by an excess of fat in the body. Obesity is observed to pass in families, but it's not established that this is due to genetics. The problem is usually caused by the excess of calories taken with food that is simply...more
Q: How obesity is defined? A: According to the official medical definition, obesity represents an excessive amount of body fat in relation to the general body mass of a person. A broader perception of obesity defines it as an excess of overall weight...more
Cincinnati is home to many great restaurants with cuisines ranging from Asian, Latin, Italian and everything in between. For people suffering from obesity, however, these exciting dining options represent a troubling temptation. Some fear that even...more
Obesity rates continue to increase at a staggering rate, increasing the risk of heart attack, diabetes, stroke, Alzheimers disease and many cancers. In fact, obesity has surpassed smoking as the leading preventable cause of death in America. A study...more
Obesity does not remain alone as a complication; rather it brings about other allied problems with it. In this hectic life where the food style has gone astray the only savior is this wonder drug. The main advantage of this wonder drug is that you...more
A major part of todays global population is suffering from a disorder that never originated out of bacterium or virus. The causes of that disorder are often cultivated in our homes and consciously or sub consciously we are following them and are...more