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Obesity Raises Cancer Risk
Your risk of cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and diabetes, all increase if you’re overweight or obese.
All these risks are worsened by the global obesity epidemic. In 2005, the World Health Organization estimated that 9.8% of adults are obese. That’s 400 million people.
And while heart disease and type-2 diabetes are strongly linked to obesity, another risk is not widely recognized, cancer.
Published in the journal Lance Oncology, a new study found Asians who are overweight or obese are at greater risk of dying from cancer compared to people with normal weight; obesity was associated with a 21% heightened risk and 6% for being overweight.
Particular forms of cancer linked to obesity included colon, rectum, breast, ovary, cervix, prostate, and leukemia.
Researchers followed more than 400,000 Asians from places like Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand for four years. His
Summer’s Hottest Diet
Kylie Minogue and Bill and Hillary Clinton have touted the benefits of the GI Diet to lose weight and keep it off. Kim Cattrall and Naomi Campbell attribute their flawless skin to the balanced diet that has helped them stay looking young.
But you don’t have to be a rich celebrity to get this great plan. For about the cost of a stamp a day, you can join eDiets and experience how effective the GI Diet is. You won’t have to give up the foods you love, dramatically overhaul your lifestyle or starve yourself to lose weight. In fact, you can practically eat all day and still lose weight!
“The main focus of the GI Diet is on whole foods,” says eDiets Director of Nutrition Services Pamela Ofstein, MS, RD, LD/N. “The pl
Dieting as a Couple: How to Make it Work
Losing weight is difficult. It takes healthy eating, exercise, commitment and support. Couples support each other through all sorts of lifestyle changes, such as marriage, a career switch and childbirth, but what about dieting? When two people agree to share everything, shouldn’t a commitment to healthier living be at the forefront?
According to a new report from Yale University, “When both members are equally motivated to shed pounds, they can support each other and achieve greater weight loss than when they go it alone.”
“Let’s get rid of the word diet – and talk lifestyle,” says nutritionist Susan Burke. “Couples should undertake lifestyle changes together. When both resol
Obesity More Dangerous Than Smoking
Smoking has long been considered the greatest modifiable risk factor affecting longevity and quality of life, but it looks like obesity may now be an even greater threat to the health of Americans.
In the the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers from Columbia University and The City College of New York calculate that the quality of life and years lost due to obesity are now equal to or greater than those lost due to smoking.
From 1993-2008 the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the largest on-going state-based health survey of the U.S., conducted interviews of more than 3.5 million people.