Do you have late dinners? If you are one of those that use to eat late at night or before going to bed and your are trying to lose weight, your chances of success may be reduced.
According to a new study with 420 individuals on a 20-week weight-loss treatment, late lunch eaters lose less weight and display a slower weight-loss rate than early eaters. Despite energy intake was similar in both groups, late eaters had less energetic breakfasts and skipped breakfast more frequently that early eater.
Although researchers could not demonstrate any significant relationship with sleep duration, CLOCK rs4580704 single nucleotide polymorphism or morning/evening chronotype and weight loss, they recommend that novel therapeutic strategies should incorporate not only the caloric
intake and macronutrient distribution, but also
the timing of food.
Source: International Journal of Obesity
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Eating late reduces the success of weight-loss therapy
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Obesity also a threat in developing countries
Sadly, we are getting accustomed to see emaciated
people in poor countries and extremely fat people in rich countries.
However, as countries develop this is getting far form reality as
both starvation and obesity are closely linked with poverty, and as
such they are both symptoms of malnutrition.
The negative effects of
unhealthy processed fat and sugar-rich diets in combination with low
physical activity began to be recognized in the early 1990s, but they
did not become clearly acknowledged until diabetes, hypertension, and
obesity began to dominate the world.
As well as in countries
with high income levels, rates of obesity and overweight are widely
documented in the poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South
Asia. In these countries, higher incomes imply access to unhealthy
fattening food, and consequently, higher prevalences of obesity.
Healthy food is usually either not available or not affordable. While
in the developed world, obesity is already considered a pandemic,
this is also now true for the developing countries. Obesity is
affecting both rich and poor countries and causing more deaths than
undernourishment, according to the World
Economic Forum, which is actually bankrupting economies and
short-changing future generations in a major way.
Governments from the
richest countries have stated to implement policies to fight the
pandemic, with an array of large-scale programmatic and policy
measures. However, few developing countries are engaged in serious
efforts to prevent the serious dietary challenges being faced.
Labels:
developing countries,
obesity,
pandemic,
unhealthy food
Combining BMI with Central Obesity for risk of mortality in subjects with Coronary Disease
In patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), normal weight in combination with central obesity is associated with the highest risk of mortality. This is the conclusion of a meta-analysis conducted with data of 15,547 participants (mean age 66 years) with CAD who took part in 5 studies from 3 continents.
The researchers identified 4,699 deaths in 4.7 years. After adjusting for potential confounders, the worst long-term survival
was observed in the subjects with normal weight but who had central
obesity. In other words: a person with a BMI below 25 kg/m², but who had a waist-to-hip
ratio (WHR) of 0.98 had significantly higher mortality than a person
with a similar BMI and a WHR of 0.89. More surprisingly, these people had significantly higher mortality than a person with a BMI of 30
kg/m² and WHR of 0.89 or 0.98.
During a median follow-up
of 4.7 years, the researchers identified 4,699 deaths. The worst
long-term survival was observed in people of normal weight who displayed
central obesity: a person with a BMI of 22 kg/m² who had a waist-to-hip
ratio (WHR) of 0.98 had significantly higher mortality than a person
with a similar BMI and a WHR of 0.89 (hazard ratio, 1.10); they also had
significantly higher mortality than a person with a BMI of 30 kg/m² and
WHR of 0.89 or 0.98 (hazard ratios, 1.61 and 1.27, respectively).
Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cad-highest-mortality-central-obesity.html#jCp
Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cad-highest-mortality-central-obesity.html#jCp
During a median follow-up
of 4.7 years, the researchers identified 4,699 deaths. The worst
long-term survival was observed in people of normal weight who displayed
central obesity: a person with a BMI of 22 kg/m² who had a waist-to-hip
ratio (WHR) of 0.98 had significantly higher mortality than a person
with a similar BMI and a WHR of 0.89 (hazard ratio, 1.10); they also had
significantly higher mortality than a person with a BMI of 30 kg/m² and
WHR of 0.89 or 0.98 (hazard ratios, 1.61 and 1.27, respectively).
Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cad-highest-mortality-central-obesity.html#jCp
Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cad-highest-mortality-central-obesity.html#jCp
During a median follow-up
of 4.7 years, the researchers identified 4,699 deaths. The worst
long-term survival was observed in people of normal weight who displayed
central obesity: a person with a BMI of 22 kg/m² who had a waist-to-hip
ratio (WHR) of 0.98 had significantly higher mortality than a person
with a similar BMI and a WHR of 0.89 (hazard ratio, 1.10); they also had
significantly higher mortality than a person with a BMI of 30 kg/m² and
WHR of 0.89 or 0.98 (hazard ratios, 1.61 and 1.27, respectively).
Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cad-highest-mortality-central-obesity.html#jCp
Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cad-highest-mortality-central-obesity.html#jCp
Labels:
BMI,
CAD,
central obesity,
mortality,
waist circumference,
waist-to-hip ratio
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