In one case, a 60 - year - old
obese man with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseand congestive heart failure was admitted to the hospital for a 57 - day stay.
THURSDAY, Feb. 15, 2018 (HealthDay News)--
Obese men with advanced melanoma skin cancer seem to have a survival benefit over their slimmer peers, a new study suggests.
Not exact matches
For example, in a study of overweight and
obese men fed isoenergetic diets, animal protein (pork) increased energy expenditure compared
with a vegetable (soy) protein (21).
Among gay
men, the rates were much higher,
with 20 percent normal weight gay
men avoiding sex and 32 percent of
obese gay
men avoiding sex.
The chance of an
obese person attaining normal body weight is 1 in 210 for
men and 1 in 124 for women, increasing to 1 in 1,290 for
men and 1 in 677 for women
with severe obesity, according to a study of UK health records led by King's College London.
Underweight
men scored slightly lower than those
with healthy weights, while women reported being significantly less happy when they were
obese.
That study found that 72.8 percent - 94.0 percent of overweight and
obese men were satisfied
with their health as compared to 56.7 percent - 85.0 percent of overweight and
obese women.
The average body mass index (BMI) of the
men with childhood ADHD was 30.1, and 41.4 percent were
obese whereas those without the condition as kids reported an average BMI of 27.6 and an obesity rate of 21.6 percent.
A new study conducted by researchers at the Child Study Center at NYU Langone Medical Center found
men diagnosed as children
with attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were twice as likely to be
obese in a 33 - year follow - up study compared to
men who were not diagnosed
with the condition.
Perhaps an extra dose of testosterone could be helpful for otherwise healthy
men whose hormone levels had faded
with age or because they were
obese or suffered from diabetes?
«The question is what underlying mechanism causes this advantage in
obese men, and can we take advantage of it to improve outcomes in patients
with melanoma?»
While advantages in PFS and OS emerged in an overall meta - analysis of the entire group, the survival benefit associated
with obesity was restricted to
men treated
with targeted or immunotherapies, where
obese men had a 47 percent decreased risk of death compared to
men with normal BMI.
By contrast, in the EHDIC sample, a larger proportion of African American
men than white
men had health insurance, and there were no differences between African American and white
men with respect to being physically inactive, being a current smoker, being a current drinker, being
obese or reporting fair / poor health, hypertension, diabetes or heart disease.
Published in open - access journal Frontiers in Physiology, the study reports that
obese men have increased levels of inflammatory markers in their seminal fluid and lower sperm quality, both of which correlate
with their body mass index (BMI).
Twelve overweight or
obese men consumed test meals designed as milkshakes
with the same calories, taste and sweetness.
Last year, a study found thousands of epigenetic modifications to DNA in the sperm of
obese men, as well as differing amounts of short pieces of RNA, when compared
with lean
men's sperm.
However, the reduction of glycogen synthesis, glycolysis, and glucose oxidation was more pronounced within the group of
men,
with decreasing levels from normal - weight to
obese and T2DM group (296).
As demonstrated by a recent metaanalysis of prospective cohort studies even
obese men and women
with normal cardiometabolic clustering had a 4-fold higher relative risk of developing T2DM, although this risk was only half of that of metabolically unhealthy
obese patients regardless of sex differences in the progression toward T2DM (40).
Of the population, 82 · 7 % were overweight or
obese with a significantly different prevalence between overweight
men and women (43 · 4 v. 34 · 7 %, P = 0 · 002).
Among
men who received treatment for the potentially deadly cancer,
obese patients lived an average of 47 percent longer than those
with a healthy body weight, researchers found.
«The question is, what underlying mechanism causes this advantage in
obese men, and can we take advantage of it to improve outcomes in patients
with melanoma?»
Obese men — and
men with metabolic syndrome or type 2 diabetes — have lower total and free testosterone as well as low sex hormone - binding globulin (SHBG).
Overall,
obese men lived from about 27 to 37 months after treatment, depending on the treatment, compared
with 14 to 20 months for
men of normal weight.
In another study, supplementing
with probiotics was correlated
with weight loss in
obese men and women, suggesting improved digestion and cravings.
«If these trends continue, more than 86 % of adults will be overweight or
obese by 2030
with approximately 96 % of Mexican - American
men affected.
After about 15 years of being
obese and trying every diet and exercise known to
man I had the yo - yo effect perfected, so in one last ditched attempt I opted to have gastric sleeve surgery in 2012, this combined
with exercise and diet led to me losing 145 lb and all my friends and family saying that I am now too thin.
Men had an average weight of over 200 lbs
with 22 % body fat the women in the study total weight was over 150 lbs and body fat 26.6 % the average VO2 max for all in the study was only 39.82 ml / kg pre and 44.90 post 10 week testing period not
obese but IMO all fairly sad.
Weight loss is usually recommended for overweight or
obese people
with a waist circumference of more than 40 inches for
men and 35 inches for women), or two or more risk factors (such as type 2 diabetes or heart disease).
In one study, 13
obese men diagnosed
with metabolic syndrome and NAFLD showed significant improvement in their weight, blood pressure, liver enzymes and liver fat after four months on a ketogenic diet; 21 percent completely resolved their NAFLD.
A similar study
with similar results was performed on
obese Japanese
men.
In many Western countries, the prevalence of obesity is skyrocketing
with almost 55 % of
men and women currently overweight or
obese.
A study published in the International Journal of Obesity revealed that in just 12 weeks, 16
obese men and women on a calorie restricted diet that included three portions of yogurt a day lost an amazing 61 % more fat and 81 % more abdominal fat than 18
obese subjects assigned to a diet
with the same number of calories but who consumed little or no high fat and calcium dairy foods like yogurt.
A previous study in the Journal of Nutrition evaluated the effect of daily dietary supplementation
with bioactives in blueberries on whole - body insulin sensitivity in
obese, non-diabetic, and insulin - resistant
men and women and found that blueberries increased sensitivity to insulin, and may reduce the risk of developing diabetes in at - risk people
Support for the concept that fiber consumption helps
with weight maintenance is provided by studies showing that daily Dietary Fiber intake is lower for
obese men (20.9 Â ± 1.8 g)
Summary The strongest data supporting a relationship between fiber and weight maintenance come from the few epidemiological studies showing that Dietary Fiber intake is lower for
obese men and women than for lean
men and women and that BMI is lower
with higher fiber consumption for both
men and women.
By contrast, the corresponding figures among
obese men and women
with moderately large waists were just 4.9 % and 2.7 %.
Compared
with the overall analyses, associations were stronger in women, more specifically
obese women
with a BMI > 30 kg / m2 (per 10 g animal protein: 1.19 [1.09 — 1.32]-RRB-, and nonsignificant in
men.
It's the tale of two unlikely pen pals: Mary Dinkle (Toni Collette), a lonely eight - year - old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a forty - four - year - old, severely
obese Jewish
man living
with Asperger's syndrome in New York.
Amongst those who live through the crash are several prominent characters; Jack (Matthew Fox), a skilled surgeon who becomes the unofficial leader of the group; Kate (Evangeline Lilly), a beautiful, but tough woman
with a dark past; Sayid (Naveen Andrews), a former Iraqi soldier who is good
with electronics; Michael (Harold Perrineau), a head - strong
man who has just recently taken custody of his son, Walt (Malcom David Kelley); Claire (Emilie de Ravin), a young woman who is 8 - months pregnant; Charlie (Dominic Monaghan), a washed - up rock star who clings to his band's one hit; Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) and Sun (Yoon - jin Kin), a Korean couple who don't speak English; Hurley (Jorge Garcia), an
obese young
man who is very laid back; Locke (Terry O'Quinn), a
man who seems to know about hunting and weapons; Sawyer (Josh Holloway), a scoundrel who hordes items he finds in the wreckage; and Boone (Ian Somerhalder) and Shannon (Maggie Grace), spoiled rich - kids siblings.
Moore weaves the first - person narrative of a morbidly
obese man in Brooklyn
with the story of a poor baseball prodigy in Yonkers.
What really stood out to me about that night, though, was that one
man drove up in a Rascal (yeah, one of those electric scooters that are typically made for old people and morbidly
obese women) that was tricked out
with an HD TV and an Xbox 360.
But take a closer look and all does not seem right
with these individuals; the couple dining together seem completely disinterested in each other and the
obese man on the lawnmower ride looks lost in a daydream.
The association of dietary quality
with colorectal cancer among normal weight, overweight and
obese men and women: a prospective longitudinal study in the USA