Chinese people have positive perceptions of obesity because becoming fat during middle age is perceived as acquiring good fortune in traditional Chinese culture; therefore, being fat could be a protective factor against depressive symptoms14. In this study, the proportion of overweight was highest when...
Obesity. High levels of belly fat, in particular, may raise your chances of Barrett's esophagus. Smoking. This causes more stomach acid production and causes your body to make less saliva, which offsets acid. Smoking also weakens the LES. ...
Striegel-Moore, R. H., McAvay, G., & Rodin, J. (1986). Psychological and behavioral correlates of feeling fat in women.International Journal of Eating Disorders, 5, 935–947. ArticleGoogle Scholar Striegel-Moore, R. H., Silberstein, L. R., & Rodin, J. (1986). Toward an understandi...
Naked mole-rat brown fat thermogenesis is diminished during hypoxia through a rapid decrease in UCP1 Naked mole-rats are hypoxia-tolerant mammals, and during hypoxia their body temperature decreases via unknown mechanisms. Here the authors report that the hypoxia-induced body temperature decrease in ...
Having excess body fat Extra weight contributes to the wear-and-tear and gradual breakdown of the hips, knees, and feet. There is also evidence that extra fats play a part in the degeneration of joint cartilage. Counter-indicators Being very skinny or being lean or underweight Being thin ...
More often, cancer in your bones starts in other cells of your body and spreads to your bones. This is known as secondary or metastatic bone cancer. Primary bone cancers are broadly known as sarcomas. Sarcomas are cancers that start in your bone, cartilage, fat, muscles, blood vessels, fib...
R. Increased fat intake, impaired fat oxidation, and failure of fat cell proliferation result in ectopic fat storage, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Ann. NY Acad. Sci. 967, 363–378 (2002). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar El Khoudary, S. R. et al. Cardiovascular ...
There has also been little exploration of whether the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) rs9939609 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) is associated with affective symptoms and/or modifies the relationship between BMI and affective symptoms. In the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (...
This study was based on data from the Ungdata Survey, an ongoing, nationally representative study of students from grades 8 to 13 across almost all municipalities in Norway. The Ungdata Survey aims to investigate adolescents’ health and well-being at the municipal and national levels (see www...
Be afraid of weight gain, for example, weighing themselves or looking in the mirror very often Have a distorted body image — thinking they are overweight when they're at a healthy weight or underweight Eat very specific foods or food groups that may be low in fat and calories ...