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| | Overweight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The term overweight is generally used to indicate that a human (or other mammal) has more body fat than is typical or required for the normal functioning of the body. | | | For those who are significantly obese, more severe methods such as drugs or surgery may be recommended, but should generally only be pursued on a doctor's recommendation after a thorough examination of the patient and analysis of previously attempted remedies (for more information on this, see the appropriate section of Obesity). | | | Although the exact mechanisms by which this occurs are not entirely known, one common theory suggests that each person may posess an inherent "set point" weight which the brain attempts to maintain, and that this set point may vary for each individual depending on a variety of factors including genetic predisposition, environment, and past experience. |
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| | Overweight and Obesity |
| | Overweight children are at risk of developing medical problems that affect a child's present and future health and have direct impact on quality of life including: | | | Preventing your children from becoming overweight means adapting the way you and your family eat and exercise and the way you spend time together. | | | If your child is overweight, your doctor may ask about your child's eating and activity habits and make suggestions on how to make positive changes. |
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http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/body/overweight_obesity.html
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| | Helping Your Overweight Child |
| | If your doctor finds that your child is overweight, he or she may ask you to make some changes in your family's eating and activity habits. | | | Genetic factors play a role in increasing the likelihood that a child will be overweight, but shared family behaviors such as eating and activity habits also influence body weight. | | | If you think that your child is overweight, it is important to talk with your child's doctor. |
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| | Screening and Interventions for Overweight in Children and Adolescents: Recommendation Statement |
| | The conclusion that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against screening for overweight in children and adolescents reflects the paucity of good-quality evidence on the effectiveness of interventions for this problem in the clinical setting. | | | There is little evidence for effective, family-based or individual approaches for the treatment of overweight in children and adolescents in primary care settings. | | | The USPSTF found insufficient evidence for the effectiveness of behavioral counseling or other preventive interventions with overweight children and adolescents that can be conducted in primary care settings or to which primary care clinicians can make referrals. |
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http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstf05/choverwt/choverrs.htm
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| | The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity |
| | Try not to make your child feel different if he or she is overweight but focus on gradually changing your family's physical activity and eating habits. | | | Overweight children need support, acceptance, and encouragement from their parents. | | | If your child sees you enjoying healthy foods and physical activity, he or she is more likely to do the same now and for the rest of his or her life. |
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http://surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity/calltoaction/fact_adolescents.htm
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| | Overweight |
| | If you are 20 lbs overweight, your body will be slightly more difficult to maneuvre, have more momentum, and will respond more slowly to danger. | | | There are other more subtle dangers in being overweight, such as loss of fitness and risk of accidents. | | | Having an extra 20 lbs also lowers your tolerance to exercise, so that you exercise less, and lose the great benefits of exercise in keeping your body functioning well and your immune system working properly. |
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http://www.health-bytes.com/overweight.htm
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| | NIDDK . Statistics Related to Overweight and Obesity |
| | Approximately 11 percent of children (ages 6-11) and 11 percent of adolescents (ages 12-17) were overweight* in 1988 to 1994--up from approximately 5 percent in the 1960s and 1970s. | | | A number of methods are used to determine if an individual is overweight or obese. | | | Weight-for-height charts are another measure used to determine if a person is overweight (although they do not measure body fat). |
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| | New warning on high blood pressure, obesity - Heart Health - MSNBC.com |
| | Forty-two percent of the men and 21 percent of women were overweight, but the study included relatively few people who were obese, so researchers made no conclusions about that group. | | | If you are overweight, new research shows how important it is to control your blood pressure besides trying to lose those extra pounds. | | | This doesn’t mean that extra pounds aren’t dangerous, because overweight people are more likely to develop blood pressure problems. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9328086
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| | What Being Overweight Means |
| | This isn't a good idea, especially if the person is already overweight. | | | Getting help is important because being overweight can make you sick. | | | The doctor may suggest ways of changing your eating and exercise habits. |
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http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/fit/overweight.html
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| | Weight Control and Diet |
| | Obesity places stress on bones and muscles, and overweight people are at higher risk for hernias, low back pain, and aggravation of gout and other arthritic conditions. | | | It is not exactly clear if being overweight as a child confers health risks later on if the child achieves normal weight in adulthood. | | | (It should be strongly noted, however, that when older overweight women lose weight they report improved vitality, physical function, and less pain.) The same positive effect of overweight does not appear to hold in older men. |
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| | CNN.com - Poll: Most Americans older than 25 are overweight - March 5, 2002 |
| | Results showed that 16 percent of U.S. adults in 1990 were 20 percent overweight and 22 percent in 1995 were 20 percent overweight. | | | That figure has risen from 71 percent in 1995, 64 percent in 1990 and 58 percent in 1983. | | | Among those are 65 percent who are overweight. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/03/05/obesity.poll
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| | Essential Oil Dictionary, Detailed Reference Guide, Herbal Encyclopedia |
| | Grapefruit oil can be used in blended massage oil or diluted in the bath to assist with: cellulite, colds and flu, lack of energy, jet lag, muscle fatigue, overweight, headaches, moodiness and mental and physical tiredness. | | | As a blended massage oil or diluted in the bath Patchouli oil can assist with: constipation, dermatitis, overweight, anxiety and dandruff. | | | In burners and vaporizers, therapy Patchouli oil can be used for: overweight, anxiety and as an insect repellent. |
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| | 19 Nutrition and Overweight |
| | In particular, public education about the long-term health consequences and risks associated with overweight and how to achieve and maintain a healthy weight is necessary. | | | For certain other objectives, such as consumer actions to reduce salt intake and home-delivered meals to elderly persons, there has been little or no progress. | | | Persons who are overweight or obese are at increased risk for high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, respiratory problems, and some types of cancer. |
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http://www.healthypeople.gov/Document/HTML/Volume2/19Nutrition.htm
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| | overweight |
| | Overweight in a child should not be neglected. | | | overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/overweight
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| | overweight - definition of overweight in Encyclopedia |
| | In practice, in most examples of overweight that may be harmful to health, both doctor and patient can see 'by eye' that fat is an issue. | | | The American Institute for Cancer Research considers a BMI between 18.5 and 25 to be an ideal target for a healthy individual (although several sources consider a person with a BMI of less than 20 to be underweight). | | | While being severely obese has many health ramifications, those who are somewhat overweight face little increased mortality or morbidity. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/overweight
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| | Study: You can’t be fat — and healthy - Diet & Fitness - MSNBC.com |
| | Yan said it is possible that some overweight participants developed high blood pressure and cholesterol problems during the study, which could have contributed to their deaths. | | | Northwestern University researchers tracked 17,643 patients for three decades and found that being overweight in mid-life substantially increased the risk of dying of heart disease later in life — even in people who began the study with healthy blood pressure and cholesterol levels. | | | Participants who were modestly overweight but had normal blood pressure and cholesterol still ran a higher risk than the normal-weight people. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10792368
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| | verweight, Obesity Cause Higher Medical Costs |
| | Dee W. Edington, PhD, researcher with the University of Michigan, is the first to examine the relationship between medical costs and six weight groups defined by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's weight guidelines. | | | Controlling weight and obesity-related health conditions (such as high blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetes) could potentially help control increased health costs, she writes. | | | Overweight and obese people incur up to $1,500 more in annual medical bills than healthy-weight people. |
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| | Cornell Science News: Obese cats |
| | -- Cats probably won't jog with you, but interactive exercise is the most effective thing we can do for overweight animals. | | | -- Cats eating some prescription diets for conditions other than weight are more likely to be overweight. | | | ITHACA, N.Y. -- Seriously overweight cats are more likely to suffer diabetes mellitus, lameness and non-allergic skin conditions, a Cornell University veterinarian's four-year follow-up to a feline obesity study has shown. |
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| | Reports from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the Harris Poll, released prior to the current survey, had suggested that weight increases would indeed continue. | | | The good news is that overweight and obesity are nearly 100 percent preventable by following my eating plan, exercising, and addressing emotional stresses. | | | Among children, there is also an increased risk of becoming overweight or obese in adulthood. |
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http://www.mercola.com/2002/oct/23/overweight.htm
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| | AMERICA IS FAT |
| | These kids are not only hugely overweight; they are also beginning to show early signs of what will become a lifetime of obesity-related health problems to further fuel the skyrocketing cost of healthcare. | | | Today, 54 percent of America is considered overweight; 20 percent is clinically obese (BMI over 30). | | | A recent study of elementary kids in a low-income eastern Kentucky town found that 33 percent of the children were significantly overweight and 13 percent were obese. |
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| | Overweight News |
| | Strong gains for Japan give some investors pause | | | Doctors treating overweight or obese patients often prescribe exercise as part of a regime to take off pounds. | | | Gastrointestinal Problems May Impede Overweight People From Exercising |
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| | Ferret FAQ - Part 4 of 5 |
| | If he feels soft and "mushy" or looks pear-shaped, he might be overweight, or just have poor muscle tone from insufficient exercise. | | | If you think your ferret might be overweight, make sure he doesn't have some other health condition that makes him appear overweight. | | | Unless you are absolutely certain that he is simply overweight and does not have another condition, please take a trip to the vet just to be sure. |
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| | Overweight - Ask the Dietitian |
| | Exercise is the most effective method to loose body fat and increases muscle mass. | | | While it is true that overweight increases a person's health risk, recent research does not find that it is more hazardous to repeatedly lose then gain weight (often-called weight cycling). | | | Persons who are more than 100 pounds overweight or double their healthy body weight are morbid obese. |
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| | Human Rights [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | In this instance, the starving person is not in a position to affect their overweight counterpart's fundamental interests. | | | On these terms, why should a purely self-interested and over-weight individual in, say, Los Angeles or London, care for the interests of a starving individual in some distant and impoverished continent? | | | The appeal to pure self-interest ultimately cannot provide a basis for securing the universal moral community at the heart of the doctrine of human rights. |
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| | Overweight definition - Weight Management and Metabolic Disorders including weight loss programs and medical treatments ... |
| | Overweight definition - Weight Management and Metabolic Disorders including weight loss programs and medical treatments and therapies | | | Obesity - Medical explanation produced by doctors regarding obesity and being overweight; includes health risks, causes, factors associated with, diagnosis, surgical and non-surgical treatments, medications, and review of popular weight loss diets. | | | The National Institutes of Health (NIH) now defines overweight in terms of the BMI (the body mass index) which is a person's weight in kilograms (kg) divided by their height in meters (m)squared. |
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| | Overweight and Obesity: Home DNPA CDC |
| | Overweight is a risk factor for health conditions such as diabetes and is associated with problems such as poor self-esteem. | | | Being overweight or obese increases the risk of many diseases and health conditions, including the following: | | | The good news is that schools can help students and staff adopt healthy eating and physical activity behaviors that are the keys to preventing obesity! |
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http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity
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| | Overweight and Obesity Statistics |
| | Treating obesity or overweight does not only involve "diet." It is a combination of watching the foods we eat, making changes to our lifestyles and in some cases medical or surgical intervention. | | | Nearly 62 percent of women and 67 percent of men are overweight. | | | According to year 2000 statistics 15.3 percent of children ages 6 through 11 and 15.5 percent of children ages 12 through 19 were overweight. |
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| | obesity - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about obesity |
| | People with this disorder believe they are overweight, even when their bodies become grotesquely distorted by malnourishment. | | | It has been shown, for example, that binging for some people releases natural opiates in the brain, providing a sense of well-being and physical pleasure. | | | Obesity has been defined as a weight more than 20% above what is considered normal according to standard age, height, and weight tables, or by a complex formula known as the body mass index. |
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| | Pregnant and overweight: How to manage your weight during pregnancy |
| | Being overweight also puts you at greater risk for having a larger than normal baby, which can make it more likely you'll need a c-section. | | | Being overweight and pregnant puts you at greater risk for complications such as preeclampsia and gestational diabetes — especially if you're more than 20 percent over your healthy body weight. | | | This site is published by BabyCenter LLC, which is responsible for its contents as further described and qualified in the Terms of Use. |
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| | BBC NEWS Health Being overweight 'damages sperm' |
| | But they also warned there may be risks for men who are even slightly overweight. | | | Being overweight may reduce a man's chances of fathering a baby, according to a study. | | | Even if he does manage to fertilise his partner's eggs there is a far greater chance of miscarriage because the quality of the sperm is reduced, the researchers said. |
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| | Overweight in Children |
| | This may help reduce the risk of heart disease and other diseases. | | | The prevalence of overweight in adolescents ages 12–19 increased from 4.6 percent to 15.5 percent. | | | When defining overweight in children and adolescents, it's important to consider both weight and body composition. |
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| | The Overweight Dog or Cat and How To Reduce A Dog's Weight. |
| | Find out what you can do about the overweight cat. | | | First of all remember that research has shown that, in general, a healthy dog can abstain from food for five days before any noticeable health effects occur. | | | The Overweight Dog or Cat and How To Reduce A Dog's Weight. |
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| | NHLBI, Obesity Guidelines-Home Page |
| | Obesity and overweight substantially increase the risk of morbidity from hypertension; dyslipidemia; type 2 diabetes; coronary heart disease; stroke; gallbladder disease; osteoarthritis; sleep apnea and respiratory problems; and endometrial, breast, prostate, and colon cancers. | | | Higher body weights are also associated with increases in all-cause mortality. | | | The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, in cooperation with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, released the first Federal guidelines on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity. |
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| | AllRefer Health - Obesity (Fat - Obese, Overweight) |
| | You are here : AllRefer.com > Health > Medical Symptoms Guide > Obesity | | | Obesity is also defined as a BMI (body mass index) over 30 kg/m2. | | | Patients with a BMI between 25 and 29.9 are considered overweight, but not obese. |
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| | U.S. Has Most Overweight Teens |
| | For children and adolescents, a body mass index (BMI, an estimate of body fat) greater than 95% of children at a particular age is considered an indicator of being overweight. | | | Childhood obesity has increasingly become a worldwide health crisis, writes lead researcher Inge Lissau, PhD, a Danish epidemiologist. | | | 5, 2004 -- The U.S. has more overweight teens than 14 other countries, a new study shows. |
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| | Moving to the U.S. makes you fat; immigrants pack on pounds in America |
| | Changes in immigrants' diet and way of life are behind the weight gain, the research suggests, as they consume more fat and sugar in processed foods, less fruit and vegetables and adopt a more sedentary existence. | | | It was not seen in foreign-born blacks but numbers in the study were too small to draw conclusions. | | | The reason Americans are so overweight is because of the food marketing, soft drink marketing, huge portion sizes, obesity-promoting food ingredients, and outlanding promotional campaigns funded by junk food companies and fast food restaurants. |
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| | Overweight and Obesity in the United States, 1960–2000 |
| | Related content from HighBeam Research on: Overweight and Obesity in the United States, 1960–2000 | | | Decline in Deaths from Heart Disease and Stroke -- United States, 1900-1999.(Statistical Data Included) | | | Overweight and Obesity in the United States, 1960–2000 |
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| | overweight on Flickr - Photo Sharing! |
| | Fast-growing China is facing an obesity epidemic with about 18 million people obese and 137 million overweight, researchers said April 15, 2005. | | | Guan Chen (R), 24, waits after being weighed in at a competition sponsored by a Chinese diet drug company in Beijing in this April 6, 2002 file photo. | | | Sign up for a free account, or sign in (if you're already a member). |
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