10 Obesity Facts You Need To Know!

By Annette Williams

Have you really studied the causes of obesity? Well, it really does put a lot of life or death situations in many people lives, young and old! Many people ignore the signs, especially when it's dealing with their children. You are about to learn some facts that will hopefully never allow you to take this rapid growing problem lightly again! So get ready to start taking notes from beginning to end.

1. Did you know that Fructose is a proven cause of this issue? If you drink a lot of sodas, you are certainly putting on a lot of unhealthy weight. This ingredient can also be found in bread and a lot of other foods that you probably would never expect. Be sure to check the ingredients of the foods you eat regularly.


2. Type 2 Diabetes has been found in many people with this problem. However, this particular type of Diabetes is usually easily prevented.


3. Obese children get very little help in most elementary schools in America. This is because a lot of the schools don't even offer physical education classes. Although the high schools offer the classes, they then give the students choices whether or not to take them. Therefore most of them simple don't!


4. Eating at fast foods puts a lot of extra weight on you. Have you ever really stopped to think about how many preservatives are in this type of food? A lot of people eat out all the time. What's worse, they feed it to their kids too!


5. Obesity creates just as many health problems for a person, as though they were smoking or drinking. And these are life threatening problems!


6. This disease contributes to Heart Attacks, Strokes and many other terrible crippling problems. This is for any age group. If you have an obese child, please don't ignore it!


7. Studies have shown this problem to be one of the main reasons children miss days in school. It has caused a lot of kids to have very low self-esteem.


8. High Blood Pressure is usually found in overweight people. This is a major factor of heart disease.


9. Many studies shows that your chance of getting Cancer is magnified greatly when you are over weight. However, you can greatly decrease this risk by losing 10 to 20 pounds. It's important to know that women are at a higher risk than men.


10. Two more facts on obesity is that women that's over weight have been known to have trouble baring children. Also, men that's dealing with this issue have been known to have trouble producing the proper sperm count.

I know that this is some very shocking information. However, you need to know the facts about obesity, because it definitely needs to be taken seriously! Although there is a lot more to learn. You now at least have enough knowledge to get your attention. So start today making a difference!

It has been very interesting studying all these facts about obesity in America through the years. If I haven't learned anything else, we must not ignore it! Be sure to take the facts that I shared with you seriously! You can go to this site now and get a lot more facts and free tips now.

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Evidence shows diet soda is not a healthy weight loss product

(NaturalNews) Artificially sweetened drinks are often promoted as healthy alternatives for weight loss and diabetes because they are low in calories and don't contain sugar. However, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that these diet sodas are harmful to human health. According to Sharon Fowler, MPH, an authority on this subject, "Diet soda is not a health food. In fact, it's not a food at all, it's simply a slurry of chemicals, a number of which may have deleterious effects on the body." Most recently diet sodas have been tied to increased risk of stroke and heart attack, and while many people drink them as an aid to weight reduction, research suggests if you drink diet soda, weight gain may be the result instead.

Weight gain

In one study linking diet beverages to weight gain, Hazuda, et. al. at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, recorded changes in waist circumferences in 474 elderly participants in a 10-year study. As part of the study they controlled for diabetes, physical activity, neighborhood, age, sex and ethnicity. Findings showed that increases in waist sizes were 70 percent greater among those who drank diet soft drinks compared with those who did not. In addition, waist size increases were as much as 500 percent greater amongst those that drank two or more diet sodas a day.

In other research, Sharon Fowler and colleagues studied eight years of data based on individuals between 25 and 64. Of the study participants who were of normal weight in the beginning, a third were overweight or obese eight years later. In evaluating the correlation between obesity and diet drinks researchers found that every bottle of diet soda participants drank in a day raised their obesity risk by 41 percent.

Diabetes

Aspartame, a common sweetener in diet beverages, has also been linked to diabetes. In an animal study conducted at UT San Antonio, researchers fed corn oil-enriched feed to one group of mice and the same feed plus aspartame to another group. Three months later the aspartame group had elevated glucose levels but insulin levels that were equal to or less than those of the control group, suggesting that aspartame may be part of the connection between diet soda consumption and diabetes.

Corrupted Signals

What is the reason for the diet soda weight gain connection? One theory is that our bodies rely on a signaling system based on the quality of the foods we eat. In the case of diet soda, the body experiences a sweet taste and expects calories; but when they aren't forthcoming starts to crave food, which leads to overeating. Psychologists at Purdue University tested this idea by comparing two groups of rats, one which was fed yogurt with sugar and one which was fed yogurt with saccharine. The saccharine rats ate significantly more calories, gained more weight and put on more body fat than the control group.

Sweet Cravings

Still another possibility is that eating sweets dulls our taste buds causing us to eat more sugary foods in compensation. Some 2011 research in the UK seems to support this idea. The scientists found that consumption of two cans of soda a day for a month resulted in a noticeable dulling of taste buds and increased cravings for high calorie foods. Since artificial sweeteners (which were not part of this particular study) are 200 to 300 times sweeter than sugar, it is at least possible that they may have a similar impact on our taste buds.

Sources for this article include

http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/1033-is-diet-soda-bad-for-you.html

http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat2.asp?newID=3861

http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2008a/080211SwithersAPA.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/artificial-sweeteners.html

Sunday, February 26, 2012 by: Celeste M. Smucker, MPH, PhD


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