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Obesity Causes Disease

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

When we started to get fat because we ask ourselves this happens, but it never happened to think to where they are located those extra kilos.

One certainty is that abdominal or central obesity is experienced by young men and adults, and attacks in postmenopausal women, to which it is not given much importance.

Instead, it is peripheral obesity which affects women in buttocks, breasts or sides of the hip, and is usually mostly in the fertile period of the same, and consultations are carried only by purely aesthetic issues and health .

For abdominal obesity may have broad waist, abdomen prominent, and these cases are those that generate less specialist visits, unless more severe symptoms, which occur as a consequence of obesity, we must pay attention to both the kilos as where they are located. (more…)

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A Global Issue

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

overweight a global issue

In Nielsen, a company that is dedicated to providing information regarding the ratings, business and other services, did a study on the global obesity.

Obesity in the first instance, seems to be a problem only of Americans, and yet this is very far from reality, in truth there are people around the world trying to lose weight.

Nielsen consulted citizens of 52 different countries and found that over half of those questioned were overweight. While the concern over obesity is worldwide, ways of addressing this issue vary according to each location.

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