Obesity in Middle Age Increases Dementia Risk
Obesity is characterized by the accumulation of an excessive amount of fatty or adipose tissue. Obesity results from unbalanced energy budgets. An overweight person consumes food energy in excess of expenditure and stores the surplus in body fat. The presence of this excess fat impairs the functioning of many important organs and body systems and can lead to multiple health problems Read more
Obesity Increases Prostate Cancer Recurrence
Obesity is known to predict prostate cancer progression in men who undergo radical prostatectomy, or complete surgical removal of the prostate gland, Dr. David Palma and colleagues from the British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada, pointed out.The researchers therefore examined whether obesity is associated with outcome for patients who undergo external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Read more
The Dangers of Smoking and Obesity
Obesity is an excessively high amount of body fat or adipose tissue — tissue that contains fat cells — in relation to lean body mass, or muscles. Doctors measure obesity using Body Mass Index, a mathematical formula in which an individual’s body weight is divided by the square of his or her height. Read more
