Fat Deposits Boost Heart Attack Risk Having excess fat around your heart may be more dangerous than a high body mass index (BMI) or a thick waist in terms of your heart attack risk, according to new research.Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researchers and colleagues measured fat deposits around the heart (pericardial fat) in 159 ... [Read more]
All U.S. Adults Could be Overweight in 40 Years If the trends of the past three decades continue, it's possible that every American adult could be overweight 40 years from now, a government-funded study projects.The figure might sound alarming, or impossible, but researchers say that even if the actual rate never reaches the 100-percent mark, any upward movement is ... [Read more]
Food flight-Los Angeles is right to take on obesity. There's nothing nanny-ish about a City Council worried over weight.In Los Angeles, the health and economic implications of widespread obesity truly are cause for alarm. In low-income South L.A., 30 percent of adults are obese.That's nearly one-third of the area's population at risk for Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and ... [Read more]
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." - Charles Mackay
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