Over half of all women in the UK and 61% of women in USA are either overweight or obese. There are distinctly increased health risks and costs of obesity that led to a great argument about fertility treatment including assisted reproductive techniques (ART) in obese women....
Obese Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m2. Overweight (of a person) Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what...
Women possess body fat exceeding 30% and men possess body fat exceeding 25 % are short listed in the obese category. With the aid of extraordinary equipment, the precise weight can be analyzed by placing the person underwater. This is mostly done in laboratories and is not at all advised t...
Obesity has grown to epidemic proportions, and currently nearly half of the reproductive-age women are overweight or obese. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1.6billion worldwide are overweight (BMI between 25 and 30kg/m2) and 400million are obese (BMI>30kg/m2). Over half of...
Sedentary, overweight or obese women can improve their quality of life by exercising as little as 10 to 30 minutes a day, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s Conference on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism.
"Several other studies have shown that being overweight or obese at the time that a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer is linked to a higher risk of recurrence. However, questions have been raised in the past whetherobese womenwere receiving relatively lower doses of chemotherapy due to thei...
(2008) Personality traits in overweight and obese women: associations with BMI and eating behaviors . Eating behaviors 9 : 294–302Provencher V, Begin C, Gagnon-Girouard M, Tremblay A, Boivin S, et al. (2008) Personality traits in overweight and obese women: Associations with BMI and eating...
Is the developmental timing and metabolic regulation disrupted in embryos from overweight or obese women?Oocytes from overweight or obese women are smaller than those from women of healthy weight, yet post-fertilization they reach the morula stage faster and, as blastocysts, show reduced glucose consu...
Jin Ding/China Daily About 41.1 percent of Chinese men were overweight or obese compared with 27.7 percent of Chinese women, according to a research published on the medical journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism on Aug 17. Researchers from the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospita...
OBJECTIVE: To analyze folate status changes in a group of overweight/obese young women following two different weight control programs. METHODS: Fifty-seven women (BMI=24-35 kg/m(2)) were randomly assigned to one of two slightly hypocaloric diets: diet V, in which the consumption of vegetabl...