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HealthDay - TUESDAY, Sept. 29 (HealthDay News) — If excess weight doesn’t kill you
by old age, it could make your life miserable in the form of chronic
health problems and impaired mental fitness.

The link between obesity and osteoarthritis may be more than just the wear and tear on the skeleton caused by added weight. A Duke University study has found that the absence of the appetite hormone leptin can determine whether obese mice experience arthritis, no matter how heavy they are. “We were completely surprised to find that mice that became extremely obese had no arthritis if their bodies didn’t have leptin,” said Farshid Guilak, Ph.D.

According to a recent study of clinical characteristics of teens who underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery from 2002 until 2007, doctors may have a much narrower window of opportunity to reverse morbid obesity in teens than previously thought. The study, conducted at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, appears in the current online edition of the Journal of Pediatrics.

Researchers studying a large sample of adolescent American boys have found an association between metabolic syndrome, which is a complication of obesity, and elevated liver enzymes that mark potentially serious liver disease. The link between metabolic syndrome and the suspected liver disease did not appear in adolescent girls, said study leader Rose C. Graham, M.D., a pediatric gastroenterologist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Researchers from the US and the UK who analysed health data on over 17,000 women from mid-life to old age found that being overweight or obese in middle age was linked to a significantly lower chance of enjoying good health in old age, with obese middle aged women having a 79 per cent lower chance.

Reuters - Consequences of obesity in women may extend years into their daughters’ lives, study findings hint.

People often think that they must have eaten too much food or carb, or not doing enough workout that is preventing them for losing those stubborn pounds. But a nutritionist reveals that the culprit may be something you never pay attention to - and that’s salt. Click to read now.

Lowers blood pressure, encourages exercise, improves psychological health - these may sound like the effects of a miracle drug, but they are actually among the benefits of owning a four-legged, furry pet.

In 2005 the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that globally 400 million adults were obese, defined by a body mass index (BMI) of 30 kg/m2 or greater. WHO projects that by 2015 there will be more than 700 million obese adults worldwide. Obesity is considered to be one of the greatest risk factors for osteoarthritis, a progressive musculoskeletal disorder that is characterized by loss of joint cartilage.

New research published on bmj.com today reports that the more weight women gain from the age of 18 until middle age, the less likely they are to enjoy a long and healthy life. Findings indicated that compared with lean women, being obese in middle age reduces those odds by 79 percent. The authors note that this emphasizes the importance of maintaining a healthy weight from early adulthood.

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