3 out of 4 British adults 'are too fat' but with unerring precision, obesity experts target the wrong problem yet again.

Three out of four British adults 'are too fat'
Article in the Telegraph

Extracts:

"Dr Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, the Harvard-trained associate professor of Medicine at America's Mayo Clinic, told delegates at the National Obesity Forum conference in London: "I believe that the UK's obesity problem is significantly worse than we thought.

"Our research has proved that one out of every five subjects with normal BMI has excess body fat, and that these people are at risk from metabolic abnormalities that lead to diabetes and eventually, to heart disease.

"Therefore, it is important to correctly identify these patients from a public health standpoint and be more precise about the changing conceptualisation of obesity."

He went on: "It is currently reported that 66 per cent of UK adults are either overweight or obese but based on our research, it is more likely to be at least 75 per cent. This clearly highlights that health care professionals must adopt body composition monitoring at an individual level to avoid mis-classifying patients with excess body fat as non-obese. If we do, we miss the opportunity to intervene and reduce the health risk in such individuals.""

"Dr Lopez-Jimenez concluded that doctors should use a technique called Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis to work out how fat their patients are, rather than BMI. By sending an electric current through the body, this allows experts to detect when it encounters fat tissue and so calculate their body fat percentage."

Fluid retention in people who have become sensitive to salt is the cause of obesity, and it is fluid retention that needs to be addressed, yet it is rarely if ever mentioned or considered by these highly-paid clueless, useless experts...)o:

Pretty obvious really, isn't it? - If you are suffering from fluid retention/water retention, you must be overweight. - Right? - It is salt/sodium that holds that excess liquid in your body. - Cut down on salt and the fluid retention will get less - and so, just like magic, you will lose some of your excess weight...(o: - without drugs, without hunger, without dieting, without endangering your health, without counting calories...

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Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, heart attack, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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A Small Amount of Weight Gain Adds Up to a Big Risk for Patients With Uncontrolled Asthma

Medscape article - Small Amount of Weight Gain Adds Up to Big Risk for Patients With Uncontrolled Asthma

Extract:

"November 15, 2007 (Dallas) — Gaining just 5 pounds during 1 year resulted in an exacerbation of asthma, particularly in those with poorly controlled asthma, researchers reported here at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) 65th Annual Meeting.

Female and black patients who have asthma were at elevated risk of controlling asthma in the study, reported Bradley Chipps, MD, allergist, Capital Allergy and Respiratory Disease Center, Sacramento, California, during his presentation.

A total of 2396 adult patients (aged ≥18 years) with baseline and 12-month follow-up visits from The Epidemiology and Natural history of asthma: Outcomes and treatment Regimens (TENOR) 3-year observational study were categorized into weight loss, stable weight, and weight gain using a 5-pound or more difference from baseline to determine whether 1-year weight changes predicted the following asthma-related health outcomes: asthma control (as measured by the Asthma Therapy Assessment Questionnaire), asthma-related quality of life (Mini Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire), steroid bursts in the previous 3 months, and exacerbations (overnight hospital stay or emergency department visit during the previous 3 months).

The study found that patients who gained weight were 22% more likely to have poorly controlled asthma after 1 year (odds ratio [OR], 1.22; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.01 - 1.49) compared with patients who had stable weight during this period, after adjusting for demographics, body mass index (BMI) at baseline, duration of asthma, asthma severity, specialty of the treating physician, total immunoglobulin E, skin test result, lung function, and oral steroid use.

"The results of the study suggest that the problems of uncontrolled asthma will continue into adulthood and reconfirm that obesity should be considered a risk factor for asthma," Dr. Chipps told Medscape Allergy & Clinical Immunology.

Other independent risk characteristics were a higher BMI at baseline, older age, and being female."

Since steroids are often used in the treatment of asthma, and since steroids frequently cause sodium retention/salt sensitivity leading to fluid retention/weight gain/obesity, it would be advisable for people with asthma to be informed that reducing intake of salt/sodium reduces the fluid retention and therefore reduces or prevents this sort of weight gain.

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Obese women and fertility treatment

'Deny obese women fertility treatment'

Extract from the Telegraph article:


"Obese women should be refused fertility treatment and instead told to take more exercise, says a leading advisory organisation.

Overweight mothers-to-be must also lose weight so they are of a healthy size to enable them to give birth safely, the British Fertility Society has said in new guidelines issued today.

The NHS should not fund treatment to obese women who have a body mass index of more than 35 — the equivalent of a 5ft 6in tall woman weighing 15 and a half stone, they said."

It is tragic that obese people are still given advice such as the above advice to take more exercise, because, while exercise can bring lots of benefits, it does not reduce obesity and is often hazardous for people who are obese.

Obesity is not caused by too many calories or too little exercise. It is caused by fluid retention in people sensitive to salt, and it can easily be reduced by giving up eating salt and salty food.

Lose weight and improve your health in many ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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vulnerable groups

How to Lose weight!

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Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

See Sodium in foods and

Associated health conditions and

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