Blog about weight loss and obesity
Obesity is bad news for both body and mind. Not only can it make someone feel tired and uncomfortable, carrying extra weight puts added stress on the body, especially the bones and joints of the legs. Kids and teens who are overweight are more likely to develop diabetes and other health problems. Does being obese …
Obesity levels in Scotland are among the highest of the OECD countries. Being overweight or obese is defined in adults as having a body mass index ( BMI ) of 25 kg/m² or greater and evidence shows that this may impair health. Is Scotland the fattest country in the UK? SCOTLAND is set to shed …
Women with obesity and primary hypothyroidism prescribed levothyroxine continued to have a lower resting energy expenditure, a measurement of whole-body metabolism, when compared with similar women who were euthyroid, according to findings published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. How much does levothyroxine increase metabolism? Resting metabolic rate increased by 60±109 kcal/day from …
Adipose tissue is mainly composed of adipocytes and a stromal vascular fraction (SVF) consisting of pericytes, endothelial cells, monocytes, macrophages, and ASCs [61]. What cells are in adipose tissue? Although the characteristic cell of adipose tissue is the adipocyte, this is not the only cell type present in adipose tissue, neither the most abundant. Other …
BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters. … If your BMI is 18.5 to