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Those women who wish to get pregnant should strive hard not to become obese during this important moment in a women’s life.
This developed after a recent medical findings has shown that obese women are as much as 28 percent less likely to become pregnant and have a successful pregnancy.
The findings was discovered by a Michigan State University professor who even earned a national award for her research.
To get the significant data, Barbara Luke, a researcher in the MSU College of Human Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, studied nearly 50,000 women using assisted reproductive technology.
Based on her study, she found out that women who are simply overweight have a 14 percent less chance of a successful pregnancy.
Luke explained the results are not surprising; obesity is a state of inflammation and is not a good environment for conception or fetal development.

 

 

Those women who wish to get pregnant should avoid getting obese.

 

 

She added the key message is to lose weight, prior to conception, and focus on pre-conception health issues.
Recently Luke was awarded the 2009 Scientific Program Prize Paper for her presentation on maternal obesity research at the 2009 American Society of Reproductive Medicine international meeting in Atlanta.
More than 5,000 experts from around the world attended the meeting, which featured nearly 900 abstracts.
Only two were selected as program prize papers.
As part of the research, Luke’s team looked at the effect increasing body mass index had on a woman’s ability to become pregnant using assisted reproductive technology and how obesity affects pregnancy outcomes. They compared outcomes to women with normal body mass index
(BMI of 18.5-24.9). Women were classified as overweight (BMI of 25 to 29.9), Class 1 obesity (30-34.9), Class 2 (35-39.9) and Class 3 (40 or greater).

 

Among her important findings were:

* Women at Class 3 obesity were 35 percent less likely to become pregnant; Class 2 resulted in a 28 percent less chance; 9 percent for Class 1; and 3 percent for overweight women.
* Of the obese women who were able to become pregnant, the odds of stillbirth were increased more than twofold.
* Among live births, the odds of premature birth significantly parallelled increasing obesity: from 16 percent for overweight women to 34 percent for women at Class 3.
Moreover, Luke said those who are thinking about starting a family, must get into the best physical shape possible.
Luke added controlling the factors such as drinking alcohol and smoking can also keep women fit during pregnancy.

 

A recent medical study has shown that mangosteen juice has anti-inflammatory properties which could prove to be valuable in preventing the development of heart disease and diabetes in obese patients.
Based on the study, medical experts discovered that the juice of the exotic ’superfruit’ can lower levels of C-reactive protein.
To get the data,Dr. Jay Udani, M.D. from Medicus Research, California, worked with a team of researchers to carry out a randomized, double-blind placebo controlled trial.
He said, "For people drinking over half a liter of mangosteen juice a day, the degree of reduction in CRP levels was statistically significant a reduction of 1.33mg/L compared to an increase of 0.9mg/L in the placebo group".

 

 

 

Mangosteen Juice offers rewards to obese persons against heart disease and diabetes.

 

 

Inflammation, as measured here by CRP, is a predictor of cardiovascular disease and a precursor of metabolic syndrome.
Reducing inflammation in obese people is a treatment goal, and a natural treatment may be preferable to other treatments which may carry the risk of side effect. According to Udani, "Further studies with a larger population are required to confirm and further define the benefits of this juice, which was safe at all dosages tested".

 

 

 

A latest medical research has shown that children with emotional difficulties are at higher risk of becoming obese when they grow up.
The researchers revealed while their findings don’t show that emotional problems like low self esteem, being overly worried or feeling less in control of one’s life in childhood actually cause obesity in adulthood, they are a significant factor, alongside parental BMI, diet and exercise.
The relevant study was undertaken by Andrew Ternouth, David Collier and Barbara Maughan from the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.
It is said that past studies have shown that people who are overweight or obese also have emotional problems like low self-esteem, but which causes the other is not clear.
To get the data, Ternouth and colleagues examined data from about 6,500 people who were enrolled in the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study when they were 10 years old, at which time their emotional problems, self-perceptions and BMI were assessed.

 

 

 

To keep your children away from obesity better help them emotional problems while growing up.
 

 

 

BMI stands for Body Mass Index, the ratio of a person’s weight in kilos to the square of their height in metres.
The participants were assessed again 20 years later, when they reached the age of 30.
The results showed that participants who scored low on self-esteem, and those who had felt less in control of their lives,
and who worried more often as children, were the ones most likely to put on weight as adults 20 years later.
The researchers also found that the link between childhood emotional problems and being overweight or obese in adulthood was slightly stronger in girls than it was in boys.
Based on the result of their research, the researchers concluded the findings are particularly important on a larger scale, as it offer hope in the battle to control the current obesity epidemic.
The researchers suggest that helping children with emotional difficulties like anxiety and low self esteem could improve their chances of being in better physical health as adults.
Moreover, the researchers said the result of their research has showed that intervention should be early, and spotting these issues in childhood could be an important step in combating obesity in adulthood.
The researchers concluded it’s not just up to doctors and health practitioners, but the job of everyone involved in the welfare of children, including parents and teachers.
 

 

Here is a piece of reminder to all pregnant women around the world.
According to a latest study, those women who gain weight during pregnancy caused the daughter they bore to become obese later in her life.
According to a new study by Alison Stuebe, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, the findings are especially important because of the growing epidemic of obesity in women.
Stuebe said if we can help women reach a healthy weight before they start a family, we can make a difference for two generations.
To get the information, Stuebe earlier analyzed data on mothers’ recalled weights and weight gain for more than 24,000 mother-daughter pairs.
She said the heavier a mother was before her pregnancy, the more likely her daughter was to be obese in later life.
She explained , an average-height mother who weighed 150 pounds before pregnancy was twice as likely to have a daughter who was obese at age 18 as a mother who weighed 125 pounds before pregnancy.
The medical expert said weight gain during pregnancy mattered, too both too little and too much weight gain increased a daughter’s risk of becoming obese, especially if a mother was overweight before she got pregnant.
The researcher said women should aim for a healthy weight before they get pregnant, and then gain a moderate amount.

 

 

 

Pregnant women should avoid gaining weight during pregnancy since it could result to obesity to their babies later in their lives.

 

Using the Nurses’ Health Study II, Stuebe analyzed data for more than 24,000 mother-daughter pairs. The daughters, all registered nurses, are part of the Nurses’ Health Study. They reported their weight at age 18 when they joined the study in 1989, and they reported their current weight in 2001.
In 2001, each mother was asked to recall her pre-pregnancy height and weight, her weight gain while she was pregnant with her daughter, and her daughters’ weight at birth.
Daughters whose mothers gained 15 to 19 pounds during pregnancy had the lowest risk of obesity. Compared to this group, daughters whose mothers gained more than 40 pounds while pregnant were almost twice as likely to be obese at age 18 and later in life.
Too little weight gain was also linked with a daughter’s obesity risk.
Pregnancy weight gain of less than 10 pounds was associated with a 1.5-fold increase in the odds of being obese at 18 and a 1.3-fold increase in odds of being obese in later life.
Furthermore, Stuebe hoped that through her study pregnant women around the world would strive hard not to gain weight to ensure that their daughter will not become obese in the future.

 

In is time to gain weight for those who are underweight and lose weight to the obese.
This developed after a recent medical study has shown that obese and underweight people to die early than people with normal weight.
In the study conducted by the Statistics Canada, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, and McGill University it was discovered that, those who are underweight and obese are in a higher risk of dying that those who have normal weight.
Mark Kaplan, DrPH, co-author and Professor of Community Health at Portland State University explained their study only looked at mortality, not at quality of life, and there are many negative health consequences associated with obesity, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes.
To get the data, the researchers examined the relationship between body mass index and death among 11,326 adults in Canada over a 12-year period (BMI uses height and weight to estimate body fat.)

 

 

It is time to lose weight for obese people if they wish to live longer like those persons who have normal weight.
 

 

Researchers found that underweight people had the highest risk of dying, and the extremely obese had the second highest risk. Overweight people had a lower risk of dying than those of normal weight.
This medical finding should serve as motivation to both obese and underweight to do something about their weight if they wish to live longer and spend more time with their family and friends.
 

 

Children as early as seven years old who are obese are also most likely to suffer from heart disease and stroke later in their lives.
This was the result of a study, conducted by researchers at Nemours Children’s Clinic and Dr. Charles DelGiorno, an Endocrine trainee from the Mayo Clinic of Jacksonville, Fla., which demonstrates that the unhealthy consequences of excess body fat start very early.
Principal investigator and senior author Nelly Mauras, MD, Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at Nemours Children’s Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida explained obesity alone, the study shows, is linked to certain abnormalities in the blood that can predispose individuals to developing cardiovascular disease early in adulthood.
Mauras said their study finding suggests that there is a need for more aggressive interventions for weight control in obese children, even those who do not have the co-morbidities of the metabolic syndrome.
He said the metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors that raise the risk of developing heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
He added it is increasingly being diagnosed in children as overweight becomes a greater problem.
The lead researcher said that although debate exists as to its exact definition, to receive a diagnosis of metabolic syndrome, in general you must have at least three of the following: increased waist
circumference (abdominal fat), low HDL ("good") cholesterol, high triglycerides (fats in the blood), high blood pressure and high blood glucose (blood sugar).
To get the data they are looking for the team screened more than 300 individuals ages 7 to 18 years and included just those without features of the metabolic syndrome.
The researchers even included 202 subjects in the study: 115 obese children and 87 lean children as controls - half were prepubertal and half-in late puberty. Obese children had a body mass index (a measure of body fat) above the 95th percentile for their sex, age and height.
To be eligible to participate in the study, the children and adolescents had to have normal fasting blood sugar levels, normal blood pressure and normal cholesterol and triglycerides.
Lean controls also could not have a close relative with type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure or obesity.
The latter group proved very difficult to find.

 

 

 
Obese children need to careful since their condition could lead to a heart disease later in their lives.

 

All study participants underwent blood testing for known markers for predicting the development of cardiovascular disease.
These included elevated levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation, and abnormally high fibrinogen, a clotting factor, among others.
Obese children had a 10 fold higher CRP and significantly higher fibrinogen concentrations, compared with age- and sex-matched lean children, the authors reported.
These abnormalities occurred in obese children as young as 7-year-olds, long before the onset of puberty.
Moreover, based on their study, the lead researcher said the results were striking since the children were entirely healthy otherwise.
She said that although it is not yet known whether early therapeutic interventions can reverse high CRP and fibrinogen, she said it would be prudent for health care providers to advise more aggressive interventions to limit calories and increase activity in "healthy" overweight children, even before the onset of puberty.
 

 

Women around the world should avoid getting obese or face risk of failing to get pregnant.
 

 

Medical experts in a recent study revealed that obese women lower chances of getting pregnant in the future.
According to Dr. Van der Steeg, a medical researcher at the Academic Medical Center in The Netherlands explained based on their study women who are overweight will have a hard time getting pregnant since their BMI is lower than 25 .
Steeg who lead the study said it would be very difficult for obese women to get pregnant since risk of some pregnancy complications, like gestational diabetes is common among these people.
He advice women who are overweight to seek an immediate medical help so that they will not lose their chances of getting pregnant in the future.
This medical finding is a good eye opener to women worldwide to always keep their body on the normal scale to avoid chances of being obese and lose opportunity to get pregnant in the future.
Eating healthy foods in moderation is a good way to keep you weight normal and risk of not getting pregnant.
Women who want to bore their own child in the future this early should make their body in normal weight so that they will not get obese and face hazards of failing to get pregnant.