According to EurekAlert:
Doctors have less respect for their obese patients than they do for patients of normal weight, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests. The findings raise questions about whether negative physician attitudes about obesity could be affecting the long-term health of their heavier patients.
As patients had higher body mass index (BMI), physicians reported lower respect for them, according to the study, being published in the November issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. In a group of 238 patients, each 10-unit increase in BMI was associated with a 14 percent higher prevalence of low patient respect. BMI, calculated from a person’s weight and height, is a shorthand used to determine whether someone is a healthy weight. A person whose BMI is 25 to 29.9 is considered overweight; a BMI over 30 is considered obese.
Mary Margaret Huizinga, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor of general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says the idea for the research came from her experiences working in a weight loss clinic. Patients would come in and “by the end of the visit would be in tears, saying no other physician talked with me like this before. No one listened to me,” says Huizinga, the study’s leader and director of the Johns Hopkins Digestive Weight Loss Center.
“Many patients felt like because they were overweight, they weren’t receiving the type of care other patients received,” she says.”
Hey, all you smug skinny people, guess what? A new study has found that the people who are most likely to live longest are… drum roll please… People who are carrying a few extra pounds.As we know, extreme obesity or being underweight is unhealthy. This study is the first to realize that people of a “normal” weight are not the luckiest. This does not mean that people of a normal weight should add extra weight.
It was found that underweight people are 70 per cent more likely to die than normal weight, extremely obese people 36 per cent more likely. Overweight individuals, however, are 17 per cent LESS likely to die. Read more…
Sore after your workout? Maybe you should have downed a cup of joe to avoid that feeling. A small study suggests that caffeine may be used as a natural way to preemptively avoid muscle soreness. Read more…
New research suggest that the active ingredient in marijuana, THC, prompts the death of brain cancer cells. The study is out of Spain, where researchers were working with patients suffering from an aggressive form of brain cancer. Read more…
Researchers are saying that eating too much red meat and processed meat causes people to die earlier due to pretty much everything, including heart disease and cancer. The study took into account other factors, such as smoking, exercise and how many vegetables the respondents ate, and still found that red meat eaters caused the risk. Read more…
A new study shows that relaxing may be the key to slimming down!
Apparently, participants who took part in activities designed to help them unwind, including meditation and yoga, could lose weight without going on a diet. Scientists believe that feelings of stress and anxiety can help to increase the desire for surgery and fatty foods, which can lead to a high calorie intake.
A new study suggests that some breast cancer, if left untreated, could regress on their own. Unfortunately, this question will never be definitively answered because it’s considered unethical not to treat breast cancer.
The study looked at two groups of women: One group of women aged 50-64 had a mammogram once every two years between 1996 and 2001 (Meaning three mammograms). The other group of women in the same age range only had one mammogram in 1997. The women who had more mammograms had more cancer, even at the end of the study. This suggests that left undetected, some cancers may spontaneously regress. Read more…
A new study suggest that most cancers are preventable. The study says that 80 per cent of cancers are diagnosed in the elderly. And, apparently, 80 per cent of risk factors are potentially preventable. For example, they connected smoking and lung cancer. (They need a study for that?) Read more…
According to research by two British economists, obesity may be linked to the subconscious belief that “if my neighbor is fat, I can be fat too.” Apparently, people gauge their weight and BMI not only based on their own numbers, but also on the numbers of others around them. Read more…
A new study has found that even if you have low cholesterol and are at a low risk for heart disease, you may still benefit from taking some sort of cholesterol pill - such as Crestor, Lipitor or Zocor. This result is “hailed as a watershed event in heart disease prevention,” as half of heart attacks occur in people who don’t seem to be at risk. However, to treat everyone in the United States in this manner could cost upwards of $9 billion annually.
The study also looks at ways to predict who will be at risk for heart attacks. Read more…
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