Health
June 23 Obligatory Health Links
Quit Nagging Kids to Diet and Maybe They’ll Lose Weight Obesity May Increase Knee Arthritis in Men but NOT in Women If you went to the obvious misogynist joke on this, consider yourself smacked. Accuracy of Mammography Varies Obese Teenagers More Likely to Die in Middle Age – at least, in Norway This study looks pretty valid, but I... »
5-30-2008 Obligatory Health Links
For these, I’m leaving it to you lovely readers to analyze the articles and look at the studies for yourselves. Obesity so far is not looking like the death sentence it’s made out to be, even as the insistence that it is gets repeated. Take responsibility for your health, not responsibility for what someone... »
Obligatory Health Linkage Friday April 11
Obese Pregnant Women More Likely to Use Healthcare Services “For instance, for prenatal visits with a physician, normal women had an average of about four visits, while very obese and extremely obese women had five and six visits. The primary reasons for the increased utilization of these services were increases in Caesarean section and obesity-related... »
Obligatory Fat Chic Health Linkage for Friday, March 28 2008
All You Can Eat Baseball Seats Horrify Dieticians Big Fat Delicious Reinforces that Fat and Fit Is Possible Obese Women Less Likely to Get Testing for Breast Cancer “No one knows why extra pounds heighten the likelihood that women will avoid mammograms or Pap smears. And it’s not known why obesity seems to have no significant... »
Seriously, No One Actually Chooses to Get Fat
It’s a thin person’s world. In the west, our beauty standards start with how thin a person is, and women in particular are still generally assessed by their audience according to how many people in that audience want to sleep with her. It is also a sexist world, but there is progress towards establishing... »
Friday Health Linkage
New Method Finds Networks of Genes Behind Obesity “This showed that people who have a higher body mass index a measurement of obesity, have characteristic patterns of gene activation in their fatty tissues not seen in DNA taken from blood. ‘What it says it that the common forms of these diseases are very complex,’ said Schadt.” Junk... »
Health Linkage
This is usually the latest round of stuff from the FDA and Medlines releases. This doesn’t ensure their accuracy or validity – some “studies” aren’t really executed that well, and some well-executed research may not even get a nod from the FDA. Weight Loss Drug Fights Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease This has been tested on... »
Obligatory Health Linkage for March 14
On the diet front: Personal Contact with Weight Loss Professionals Helps Maintenance I found it interesting that it’s also helpful to use a tracking website, but according to this study, it’s only effective for two years. I suspect that if these sites improved usability and incorporated really researched material instead of BMI standards, their usefulness... »
Obligatory Health Links
Obese Kids at Higher Respiratory Risk Post Surgery Overweight Hispanic Kids Show Early Markers for Diabetes There are a lot of things that still bother me about these racially-oriented studies, especially since I’ve seen some strong demonstration that the only biological differences between “races” is the amount of skin pigment. Wouldn’t it be easier to get... »
2008 National Eating Disorder Week
For all of those who actually, like me, are binge eaters (which is far fewer than the trolls would have it). For those of you whose bodies are recovering from anorexia. For those of you who are in pain every time you have to sit down in a restaurant. Somebody is trying to help. National Eating... »