The men who are fighting against the prostate cancer are twice as likely to die by the disease if they are obese, according to a new study.
Michel Pollak one of the oncologists of McGill University that next to the Harvard University conducted the study declare: “If we were detectives could say that we have a suspected very serious”
The study found that obese men who suffer from prostate cancer are twice as likely to die as men who carried a healthy weight. The high levels of insulin (which is linked to obesity) are related to the possibilities of dying in cancer patients.
This new study linking the prostate cancer to obesity is important not only for having confirmed the link between these factors, but also spoke of the possibility of a new line of studies in relation to the treatment of prostate cancer.
The relationship between the secretion of insulin and the risk of dying of prostate cancer gives rise to more research to develop strategies to prevent and treat this type of cancer. Read the rest of this entry »

We have seen many times the amount of negative consequences that entails the obesity. However, and to counter a little, a recent study has linked the disease with a low rate of suicide consummated.
Specialists of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston studied the rates of suicide and obesity in the United States during the years 2004 and 2005. On average, a quarter of the people studied were described as obese based on her body mass index. This index is the result of the relationship height and weight (to learn more about this click here). In addition, there were on average about 12 suicides per 100,000 people. Read the rest of this entry »

Progress in decades in the U.S. in lowering cholesterol, blood pressure and snuff consumption stagnated over the increasing rate of obesity and heart diseases cause 400,000 deaths in the country this year, experts said on Monday.

A study by British scientists found that about half of those deaths could be prevented if people ate healthier foods and stop smoking.

Experts warned that there is no room for complacency when it comes to the risks to heart health.

Simon Capewell from the University of Liverpool said that recent trends in weight were “alarming”, with an estimated 1,500 million adults worldwide are overweight by 2015.

“Although the number of deaths from heart disease fell in the U.S. in the last four decades, now is leveling off among men and women,” she wrote in a study published in the weekly magazine of the World Health Organization (WHO).

“The reduction in total cholesterol in blood has been modest, blood pressure is rising among women and obesity and diabetes is increasing in both sexes,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »