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Obesity paradox: Fatty people have the lowest risk of death
People often think that obese people have poor health but according to statistics, ironically there are still many overweight people, but that helps them avoid quite a l…
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Thin people with beer belly have a higher risk of death than obese, overweight people
Research shows that people who are thin but have large beer belly are at higher risk of death than those who are obese or overweight.
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Equipment to help control obesity
The doctors of the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM) and the Czech Hospital of Motol have successfully performed a rare surgery to put an electronic…
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Eating salty makes your body grow old
Overweight teenagers who eat too much salty foods can age more quickly, according to a new US study.
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Identifying the most important gene causes obesity
Geneticists at the University of Chicago (USA) on March 12 announced that they identified the most important gene causing obesity, opening up hope to prepare a cure for…
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1/4 of women are obese during pregnancy
Why do nữ women become obese when they are pregnant - and how does this pose a risk to their health and the child?
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Contraceptives are useless for fat women
Scientists warn, birth control pills will be less effective in overweight women, and especially useless for women who weigh more than 80kg.
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Breastfed babies will reduce their risk of obesity by 50%
In the latest study, Japanese scientists found that babies who were exclusively breastfed for the first six months reduced their risk of obesity by up to 50%.
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5 habits of healthy lean people that you should study
Overweight people always want to lose weight and stay healthy like thin people. So, what is the secret of healthy thin people?
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Australia treats obese children according to new methods
In an effort to prevent an epidemic of obesity in the country, a group of Australian doctors have adopted new treatments through a program that targets not only overweig…
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Obese pregnant women are more prone to heart disease
Obese women can put their babies at risk of congenital cardiovascular disease: Infants often have early signs of heart disease at birth. One-third of women of childbeari…
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Abdominal fat increases the risk of death
The new study shows that ring 2 weight increases the risk of bleeding leading to death from aortic rupture - the largest blood vessel in the body.
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It takes two minutes to know if the child is obese when he is growing up?
Scientists have created a table of six questions and it only takes two minutes to predict whether an infant will grow obese or not.
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Doctors are easily averse to fat people
The patient's body weight really affects the feelings of the doctor, because they tend to think and act negatively when meeting overweight people.
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Male sex hormones can cure obesity
But overweight men, the activity of testosterone-bearing male sex hormones, leads to fat accumulation, which makes them fat. Solving this problem is simple: Just injecti…