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In a new study researchers have found that women who have bigger waist have high risk of developing asthma though their body weigh is normal. The study suggests that the amount of weight which women carry around their abdomen is particularly important. The researchers analyzed the date of 88304 women. [Photo Credit] They found that women with overweight are 40% more likely to have asthma than woman having normal weight. Asthma is three times likely to attack women which are extremely overweight than normal weight women. More surprisingly they also found that women with normal weight but whose waist is more than 35 inches are also at increased risk around one third higher than women with smaller waist. Body mass index (BMI) has been widely used as a standard measure of obesity. Many researchers consider that waist circumference can be used because it reflects levels of visceral fat deposits which are found around the organs of body more closely. These fat deposits are different that fr...

In a new study scientists have found that people who are obese have smaller brain & they are more at risk of Alzheimer’s. They found that brain in the obese people had an average of 8 % less tissue & had aged prematurely by sixteen years. On the other hand people who are overweight had an average of 4 % less tissue & appeared eight years older. [Photo Credit] They compared the brain scan of 94 people in their 70s who were obese & overweight. They found that the obese had lost tissue in the frontal & temporal lobes areas critical for planning & memory. Declines were also seen in areas used for attention & executive functions, long term memory & movement A neurologist Professor Paul Thompson said, “That's a big loss of tissue and it depletes your cognitive reserves, putting you at much greater risk of Alzheimer's and other diseases that attack the brain. But you can greatly reduce your risk for Alzheimer's if you can eat healthily and keep you...

New research has claimed that obese mothers are ten times more likely to have fat daughters than those of healthy weight. Overweight fathers are also six times more likely to have obese sons. The findings, which suggest children are picking up bad eating & exercise habits from their parents, have serious implications for the childhood obesity epidemic. It is usually seen that one in ten children is obese by the age of five years. The children who are overweight are at greater risk of diabetes, cancer & heart disease later in life. Weight has become a major health problem in children. Thee is a link between obese parents & their offspring is behavioral & that youngsters learn unhealthy behavior from role models at home. The connection is very unlikely to be genetic because inherited traits such as obesity are rarely passed down on gender lines. The scientists found that just 3 % of boys with fathers of normal weight were obese, compared to 18 % with fat fathers. On the o...