Smoking and Obesity, Dump Your Mate to Lose Weight, and the Fight Against Fat Goes High-Tech
Smoking and obesity equally unhealthy: The Quality-Adjusted Life Years (Qalys) lost as a result of obesity is now equal to, if not greater than, those lost from smoking.
One in seven content with current weight. Everyone else thinks he/she weighs too much.
Do you tend to burn more fat exercising outdoors in colder weather? No.
Women who live with a mate put on more pounds than those who live without one: The 10-year weight gain for an average 140-pound woman was 20 pounds if she had a baby and a partner, 15 if she had a partner but no baby, and only 11 pounds if she was childless with no partner.
Wearable wireless sensors can monitor overweight and obese people as they go about their daily lives: how many minutes they work out, how much food they consume and even whether they are at a fast-food joint when they should be in the park.
I’m sure there is an important lesson in the post about women living with a man.I’m not sure what it is.
Uri Gneezy and Jason Shafrin have a paper on why getting married makes you fat here:
http://jasonshafrin.com/papers/Marriage.pdf
The theory here must be that once you “capture” the mate the incentive to keep competing against rivals is reduced.
Where are the one in seven whose weight is just right? Where I live it is one in twenty.
Obesity and diabetes is a growing problems nowadays. It is caused by todays lifestyle which does not involve lots amount of exercise. Most people are just happy sitting in their office chair and they do not even want to sweat.
Obesity is a growing health problem these days because people are too lazy to do some extra exercise and they eat too much. i always exercise and do cardio regularly to maintain a healthy weight.