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By maintaining or improving your fitness level, you can reduce your risk of death from heart disease and stroke—even if your weight hasn’t changed or increases, according to a new study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. This is good news for people who are physically fit but can’t seem to lose [...] Older overweight adults with knee osteoarthritis can greatly reduce pain and improve function in their knees with a program of intensive diet and moderate exercise, researchers reported Nov. 6, 2011 at the American College of Rheumatology annual meeting in Chicago. [...] A study following men from early adulthood to middle age found that men who were obese at 18.5 to 28 years of age were twice as likely to die from coronary disease as men who at those ages were of normal weight. The researchers found this likelihood to be true regardless the whether the men smoked or engaged in physical activity. The researchers even took into consideration whether the men had type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. But there was one thing that changed the outcome for men who in their young adult years were obese: to lose the weight later in life. [...] |
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