Unfortunately, body fatness does contribute to cancer and for some types of cancer the evidence is extremely strong. The most convincing link between obesity and cancer is for cancers of the following organs: Oesophagus (adenocarcinoma) Pancreas Colorectum Breast (postmenopausal women only) Endometrium Kidney There is evidence of a probable link between cancer and body [...]
Sadly yes. Your risk of death does increase as you gain fat weight, and this goes for both men and women. Many researchers use Body Mass Index (BMI) to assess your degree of overweight. To calculate your BMI divide your weight in kilograms by your height in meters, squared. The normal weight range is considered [...]
1. Accept slow incremental progress to your goal. Rome was not built in a day, and nor will your ideal body be achieved as fast as you would like. Rapid weight loss usually means that you will end up a smaller but flabbier version of your former self because you will lose muscle tissue and [...]
While the most common cause for obesity is eating too much and not exercising enough, a number of other causes and factors associated with obesity are being looked at and these include: The role of micro-organisms (the bugs that live in your gut change with your weight and scientists are investigating why this occurs and [...]
The previous blog post discussed BMI and how having a BMI in the normal range does not necessarily mean you don’t carry unhealthy levels of fat. The previous blog also indicated that some people in the obese range (heavily muscled athletes) do not always carry excessive levels of fat that meet the criteria for obesity. [...]
We used to think fat cells (also called adipocytes) were passive little things whose sole purpose was to store fat. However, fat had us fooled until about a decade ago when we discovered that fat was an active endocrine organ that influenced important events like vascular tone regulation and appetite, to mention just a few [...]
Body Mass Index or BMI is probably the most common measure for assessing your weight range. To calculate your BMI your body weight measured in kilograms is divided by the square of your height in meters. For example, if you are 70kgs and measure 170cms (1.7m) in height your BMI would be as follows: 70/1.7 [...]
So, does eating six small meals a day produce more weight loss than eating three meals a day? Well, the bottom line is that eating 6 meals a day does not lead to more weight loss than eating 3 meals a day. While some studies have shown that having a higher meal frequency reduces food [...]
I just love it when we get compared to primates! A study was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald suggesting that cutting our calories in order to lose weight would only result in an automatic reduction in our exercise output, meaning that we would maintain weight. And, why did they draw that conclusion? Because that’s [...]
It appears the main issue impacting on health systems globally is the over-consumption of food. In the stone age and some centuries ago the ability to gain weight in times of plenty served us well during famines and wars. However, in our current times the over-consumption of food is aggravated by a sedentary lifestyle in [...]
