Not exact matches
Superficial, distant, and less
than meaningful relationships can lead to feelings of insecurity and loneliness, which can increase your risk of illness and
death just as much as
obesity, alcoholism, and smoking.
Whilst breastfeeding can't prevent all these issues, it certainly supports many — breastfeeding reduces sudden infant
death by more
than a third and it has benefits for intelligence and protection against
obesity and diabetes.
We're going to have more
deaths from
obesity than from smoking.
«However, unlike smoking, which substantially increases the likelihood of premature
death (for example, mortality from lung cancer),
obesity and associated Type 2 diabetes primarily lead to long - term disability, so that from a lifetime perspective,
obesity could tax the health care system even more
than smoking.»
In other studies,
obesity has been associated with a decreased risk of early
death; however, follow - up studies suggest that this «
obesity paradox» may be explained by unintentional weight loss in the few years preceding
death, rather
than a truly protective effect of
obesity.
The extent to which NAFLD itself, rather
than associated conditions such as diabetes,
obesity, or atherogenic dyslipidemia, is responsible for increased cardiovascular
death has been a matter of debate.
A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels
than at lower BMI levels.12 Because
obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the
deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.
A recent Harvard study found that sugar - sweetened beverages are linked to more
than 180,000
obesity - related
deaths each year, which means that about one in every 100
deaths from
obesity - related diseases is caused by drinking sugary beverages.
The etiology of morbid
obesity does appear to involve more
than «middle - age spread», i.e. ordinary self - indulgence and age - dependent inertia; and MO's contributions to
death and disability statistics are indeed more «significant» in common if not statistical usage 8 ^).
Fit participants had lower
death rates
than unfit participants within each stratum of adiposity, except for two of the
obesity groups.
Researchers from University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation used data on premature
deaths, self - reports about health and factors such as smoking rates,
obesity, teen births, the percentage of children in poverty and number of liquor stores vs. grocery stores to rank more
than 3,000 counties nationwide against others in their state.
I've read others» reports of the experiences of divorce and how their daily habits changed: less eating, less sleeping, more crying.4 One of the unfortunate things about weight loss following divorce is that women are almost universally praised for this «accomplishment» — even if it comes at an emotional cost or the shedding of pounds leaves them underweight.5 Losing weight should not always be greeted with congratulations; in fact, being underweight puts people at a higher risk of
death than does
obesity.6
The researchers found a strong dose - dependent relationship between the number of the ACE's that people had experienced and 10 behavioural risk factors associated with the leading causes of
death in adults; including smoking, severe
obesity, decreased physical activity, depressed mood, a suicide attempt, alcoholism, any drug use, injection drug use, greater
than fifty lifetime sexual partners, and a history of a sexually transmitted disease.
In fact, sleeping less
than seven hours a night is associated with all kinds of health problems: weight gain and
obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, depression — and a higher risk of early
death, the researchers found.