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The recent finding that brain grey and white matter diminish with obesity is taken a little further with new MRI analysis finding that some subcortical brain mass is increased. Interestingly, they are the subcortical brain structures that are involved in feeding behaviour. The obese people had larger left and right amygdalar volume, and their hippocampus was [...]
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They are worse off. We spoke in a previous post about the supra-additive effects of obesity on alcohol consumption. We found that obese people are at much higher risk to the damaging effects of alcohol because of their high fat mass. While alcohol may have some protective effect on stroke risk, any real effect is [...]
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A women who gains too much weight during pregnancy places her children at high risk to future heart disease and obesity. Also, these mothers will themselves maintain a higher fat mass as they get older. The mother who gains excess weight will have a child with a higher BMI, waist circumference, fat mass, leptin, systolic [...]
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Obesity increases the toxicity of alcohol and together they dramatically increase liver disease. Cirrhosis of the liver and deaths from cirrhosis are increasing rapidly in both men and women. Although alcohol consumption has increased over the past 10 years, cirrhosis has increased even faster. The Million Women Study is following 1.3 million middle aged women [...]
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This morning I watched a TED talk. I had been recommended it and was reluctant to watch it as it was about online gaming. My nephews spent many hours playing online games when they were younger and of course I was the one to roll my eyes and tell them that there were more important [...]
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