RSS Feed This entry was posted on Monday, January 11th, 2010 at 4:30 pm and is filed under Obesity Update. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
 |
- At Other Sites
- Beam Me Up
- Book Review
- Breaking News
- CBO
- Discussion
- From the Trenches
- FYI
- Ground Control to Sen. Democrats
- Health Alert
- 2008 Election
- African AIDS
- Babies
- Bad Studies
- Book Reviews
- Bush Health Plan
- Diabetics
- Drugs
- Health Care Access
- Health Care Costs
- Health Reform
- HSAs
- International
- Malpractice
- Media Advisory
- Medicaid
- Medical Economics
- Medical Tourism
- Mental Health
- Minimum Wage
- Portability
- Racial Disparities
- RAND Studies
- Safety
- Scary Forecasts
- SCHIP
- Seniors/Medicare
- Socialized Medicine
- Supply Side
- Telemedicine
- Transparency
- Uninsured
- Vet Care
- Vision Thing
- Workers Comp
- Hits & Misses
- Holiday
- In Memoriam
- In the News
- Interesting Videos
- Memorial Day
- New Videos
- NHS Update
- Notable and Quotable
- Obesity Update
- On Capitol Hill
- Personal Testimony
- Petition
- Plans
- Policy Update
- Question of the Week
- Quote of the Day
- Season's Greetings
- Song of the Season
- The People Speak Out
- Updates
Categories
Contributors
- Ron Bachman
- Michael Bond
- John Goodman
- Linda Gorman
- Robert Graboyes
- John R. Graham
- Devon Herrick
- Regina Herzlinger
- Roy Ramthun
- Greg Scandlen
Recent Posts
- Quote of the Day
- The Obesity Paradox, MIT Scientists Beaming, and New York’s Life Expectancy Gap
- But Senator Baucus, Did the “Experts” Read the Bill?
- We-Have-to-Pass-It-to-See-What’s-In-It Fact of the Day
- Is the Federal Government Broke?
- Why Is the Economy Not Recovering?
- Federal Government to Pay Medical Bills for Fortune 500, Nebraska Gov. Urges Educators to Support Repeal of ObamaCare, and Unemployment Insurance
- Unintended Consequences of the Medicare Drug Benefit
- Mr. Language
- An Interesting Post
Blogroll
Jan 11, 2010
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.
7 Responses to “Smoking and Obesity, Dump Your Mate to Lose Weight, and the Fight Against Fat Goes High-Tech”
RSS
Twitter
YouTube
LinkedIn
Facebook
Flickr
Helium
January 11th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
I’m sure there is an important lesson in the post about women living with a man.I’m not sure what it is.
January 11th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Uri Gneezy and Jason Shafrin have a paper on why getting married makes you fat here:
http://jasonshafrin.com/papers/Marriage.pdf
January 11th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
The theory here must be that once you “capture” the mate the incentive to keep competing against rivals is reduced.
January 11th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Where are the one in seven whose weight is just right? Where I live it is one in twenty.
January 12th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
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.
January 16th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
[...] more from the original source: Smoking and Obesity, Dump Your Mate to Lose Weight, and the Fight … Categories: Uncategorized Tags: equally-unhealthy, not-greater, now-equal, years [...]
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:34 am
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.