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Surgery Cures Type 2 Diabetes

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:15:35 GMT

clipped by: Marcariel
clipper's remarks: This article was of some great interest to me since my son is a diabetic. Diabetics have a lot of trouble dieting because if they don't eat they get sicker. Diabetics must diet under strict doctor's supervision to prevent severe medical problems ... and not too many people can afford the cost or the time (perhaps hospitalized) that this would involve.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Weight-loss surgery works much better than standard medical therapy as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes in obese people, the first study to compare the two approaches has found.

The study, of 60 patients, showed that 73 percent of those who had surgery had complete remissions of diabetes

remission rate was only 13 percent in those given conventional treatment

In the study, the surgery worked better because patients who had it lost much more weight than the medically treated group did — 20.7 percent versus 1.7 percent of their body weight, on average. Type 2 diabetes is usually brought on by obesity, and patients can often lessen the severity of the disease, or even get rid of it entirely, by losing about 10 percent of their body weight

a measure of desperation, as the United States and the world face increasing rates of the disease and its devastating complications, which can include heart attacks, blindness, kidney failure and amputation.

diabetes surgery will become common

Tags: diabetes, surgery, cure

"Obesity" Olympics? China Joins the Cola Wars

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:14:55 GMT

clipped by: Marcariel
clipper's remarks: Here we are sending our corn syrup laden, fat producing colas to China, and they send their poison food over here. Fair trade? Our product makes them fat (which in the long run can kill you from obesity and poor health) and theirs kills outright. Fair Trade?

Seriously ... I feel sorry for their children being introduced to Western culture by destroying their health and becoming addicted to colas. Soft drinks are not one of our better representatives!

Clip Source: blog.healthpolitics.org

One thing is pretty clear if you’re a developing nation, and that is that multi-national marketers have you in their cross-hairs. And for China or India -- with huge populations -- that goes double.

China, of course, is a special case. Whether it be tobacco consumption, an electrical grid fired by dirty coal, a marred food and product safety chain, or infrastructure expansion at rates that make it difficult to manage quality -- in all of these cases, success (translation: economic growth) in the present is being mortgaged with the health of future populations.

One small measure of growth in the wrong direction is the increased ingestion by Chinese citizens of "liquid corn” -- that is, carbonated beverages whose major additive, beyond water, is high fructose corn syrup.

But in the Cola Wars, these things are not taken lightly. There's a lot at stake here: 8 to 10 billion liters in sales by the time the Olympics roll around.

Tags: china, obesity, cola, corn syrup, pepsi, coke

Getting Skinny - Investigating Bariatric Surgery

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:31:36 GMT

clipped by: Marcariel
clipper's remarks: In America our young people are getting nigger and fatter with each generation. Fast food and sedentary lives are one of the biggest problems. Many obese people (young and old) eagerly turn to what they assume is a quick fix.

Nothing involving your body should be entered into quickly or lightly. This is a good, brief article with a lot of great information.

Clip Source: blog.healthpolitics.org

What you don’t know about bariatric surgery can hurt you

“Obesity is an epidemic!” That’s what we’ve all heard. And the facts are convincing. Our collective Body Mass Index (BMI - which factors in weight and height, and is normally 20 to 25) is growing too fast.

The percentage of Americans with a BMI over 30 (the definition of “obese, versus “overweight” at 25 to 30) was 15% in 1995. A decade later it was 24% and rising, with 5% “morbidly obese” with a BMI over 40.

Being obese can kill you. BMI’s over 30, and especially over 35, are associated with increased rates of high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, sleep disturbances, heart attack, and stroke. So it’s not too surprising that people with high numbers, symptoms of disease, and a history of failed diets turn to the knife.

BOTTOM LINE: Bariatric surgery is a big deal! Go into it with your eyes wide open!

Tags: bariatric, obesity, surgery, bmi, operation, gastric bypass

A Virus that makes you Fat!

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:42:47 GMT

clipped by: Marcariel
clipper's remarks: Well ... what else is new. It seems you can't eat, drink, talk on your cell phone, be intimate, or buy groceries without danger to your health ... so why not a "Fat" virus!?

Clip Source: www.webmd.com

Obesity Virus: More, Bigger Fat Cells

Aug. 20, 2007 – Infection with a virus linked to human obesity ups fat-cell production and makes fat cells fatter.

"Infectobesity" is the term coined by Louisiana State University researcher Nikhil Dhurandhar, PhD, and colleagues to describe the phenomenon. Their research strongly links a common human virus -- adenovirus-36 or Ad-36 -- to human obesity.

Previous research showed that nearly 30% of obese people, but only 11% of lean people, have been infected with Ad-36. Monkeys experimentally infected with Ad-36 gain significant weight.

Dhurandhar first became interested in obesity-related viruses while working in India. There he investigated a peculiar phenomenon: Chickens infected with a deadly avian adenovirus became fatter, not thinner, before they died.

The researchers are now trying to figure out why some people seem to become obese after Ad-36 infection while others don't.

Tags: obesity, fat, virus, chickens, research, infected

There's Corn in My Hamburger?

Fri, 11 May 2007 16:01:09 GMT

clipped by: Marcariel
clipper's remarks: Here we are fast food nation. Sweeteners invading almost every food we eat.

Clip Source: blog.healthpolitics.org

The subject of this week’s Health Politics program might come as quite a shock to you. The gist? There’s corn in nearly every processed food we eat.

This might not sound like such a big deal at first. Corn is good for us, right? Yes … and no. Corn in its natural state can be a sound, healthy element of anyone’s diet -- corn itself is not harmful. But what man does with corn -- such as force-feed it to cows to get more marbleized, less healthy meat, or process it into high-fructose corn syrup that shows up in everything from soft drinks to bread – is the problem.

In fact, the pervasiveness of corn and corn byproducts in our processed foods is likely a significant contributor to our obesity problem.

Want to know more? Take a look at this week’s program and let me know what you think.

Tags: obesity, hamburgers, corn syrup, food additives