obesity (Page 16)

And fat because you’re depressed! – It turns out that if you’re depressed because you’re fat (no surprise there), you’re likely to get even FATTER, especially in the place you dread being fat the most: our stomach. But there ARE some surprises to be found out there. For instance, if you’re worried about your memory, a fat tummy HELPS that!

Sociologist Sociology Belinda Needham says, “We found that in a sample of young adults during a 15-year period, those who started out reporting high levels of depression gained weight at a faster rate than others in the study, but starting out overweight did not lead to changes in depression.
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It’s not a miracle, it’s just a fact: Raising prices by taxing cigarettes worked, because it caused a lot of people to stop smoking. Could it do the same thing for eating unhealthy foods? (And if you’re overweight, you’re more likely to get the flu!

A new study that followed participants for 20 years shows both weight and risk for diabetes decreased for people in communities where fast food prices increased. Adults tend to eat less pizza and drink less soda as the cost of these items increases.
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Scientists have identified cells in the stomach that time the release of a hormone that makes animals eat even when they are NOT hungry (like we humans sometimes do). But maybe that’s not always a bad thing: People with large thighs have fewer heart attacks.

Researcher Rae Silver has some diet advice for us: “It’s a good thing to eat meals at a regularly scheduled time of day.” Just don’t make one of those times of day late at night! On BBC News, Sudeep Chand quotes researcher Deanna Arble as saying, “One of our research interests is shift workers, who tend to be overweight. This got us thinking that eating at the wrong time of day might be contributing to weight gain.”
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Because there is a NEW WAY to count calories – Maybe one of the reasons some of us are so fat is because we measure calories the wrong way. Calorie counts are created by incinerating food, but we don’t burn food up, we digest it.

Nutritionists say that women should eat around 2,000 calories per day and men should eat 2,500, but how are those calories being measured? And it turns out that a calorie in one food isn’t the same as a calorie in another, because they are metabolized by the body in different ways. Some are used to produce energy, while others are just used to create fat.
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