what health related risk factors increase with obesity?
Hypertension
Hyperlipidemia
Heart Disease
Liver Disease
Kidney Disease
Family and Lifestyle are the only factors effecting obesity if you think about it. Family is the genetic component that affects lifestyle. Lifestyle involves you mental status, physical activity and eating habits.
I have a friend who reckons that starting smoking helped him to lose weight. Specifically, he states that his taste buds are less sensitive thus removing his pleasure from sweet foods. Obesity is clearly a huge health risk but by starting smoking is he adding to his problems or is there some truth in this?
It [...]
Reading online, I’ve found that some sites use these words interchangably. Are these two classified as the same? Or are there different risks associated with the two. Is being slightly overweight as bad for your health as being slightly obese?
Overweight is like 10-20 lbs over….obesity is when you have hit that weight limit which heightens [...]
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My son has debilitating diseases, disorders, and other risk factors due to his morbid obesity. This includes extremely high-blood pressure that could give him a stroke and extremely high cholesterol. He needs to have Gastric-Bypass surgery. However, his insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield) will not cover the surgery which I think is stupid because it [...]
This is not a controlling pet overpopulation but about the individual dog. So forget for a moment that pet overpopulation is an issue.
I was reading this:
http://www.naiaonline.org/pdfs/LongTermHealthEffectsOfSpayNeuterInDogs.pdf
And it got me wondering if the benefits of spaying/neutering really do outweigh the risks.
This right here is enough to make me want to [...]
My sis has been a tad overweight since she was teenager. Year after she has been eating her way to obesity: now she is 22 and over 200 pounds. She gets very angry when either my mom or me hint that she should eat smaller portions, cut junk food.
Besides health risks her weight poses, I [...]
Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine] [...]
Like how does it motivate students?
-i said they do better on work because they know recess is a reward.
but i need more points and reasons
Why is it good for our health
-lowers the risk of obesity
-helps students get some exercise
please help!
thanks!
it helps them get rid of their extra energy!
my first argument is about health risk and second is emotional problems and third is it can affect other family members and i don’t understand how to do the opposing viewpoint i need help!!! thanks
What are you trying to argue, that obesity is bad or harmful?
America´s increase in size is due to it´s low population [...]