Slightly overweight adult seniors over 70 may live longer and were less likely to die in their 80s than those considered normal weight, Australian researchers have found.

Leon Flicker of the University of Western Australia, said in a release, “Our study suggests that those people who survive to age 70 in reasonable health have a different set of risks and benefits associated with the amount of body fat to younger people,”

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/01/28/overweight-longevity-seniors-australia.html#ixzz0dzlpgtDV

Doctors use the body mass index (BMI) as a simple way of assessing whether a patient needs to lose weight. So look at the chart above and find out if your weight is considered OK, Over Weight, Obese or even Clinically Obese.

The calculation is based on comparing a person’s weight with their body height. It applies equally to men and women.

You can quickly see the BMI assessment for your body on the chart above.

Alternatively, you can calculate your own BMI. Divide your weight in kilograms by the square of your height in metres, or divide your weight in pounds by the square of your height in inches, then multiply by 703.

A BMI of 25 to 29.9 is considered overweight and one of 30 or above is considered obese.

People with BMIs between 19 and 22 live longest. Death rates are noticeably higher for people with indexes 25 and above.

The BMI is not infallible. For instance, it is possible for a healthy, muscular athlete with very low body fat to be classified obese using the BMI formula.

If you are a trained athlete, your weight based on your measured percent body fat would be a better indicator of what you should weigh.

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This is an interesting discovery. It seems that weight loss surgery helps women rather then men reduce their risk of cancer.

The correlation between being obese and the increased risk of developing certain types of cancer has been documented before. However what was unclear was whether weight loss surgery would reduce that risk.

Well, a recent study by Swedish researchers published in Lancet Oncology shows that women who have had weight loss surgery reduced their risk of cancer by a 42%.

It must be noted here, that obesity is linked to 20% of all cancers in women and about 14% in men. So a 40 odd percentage reduction in risk is quite substantial.

Apparently, the believe is that the surgery has some impact on the hormone levels.

The research done by this team has been quite extensive stretching for a period of over 10 years involving over 4000 individuals, half of which who had bariatric surgery as against the other half or so who received other forms of weight loss treatment.

Over the period the study was conducted, those who had surgery lost about 20kg as compared to those who did not losing only an average of 1.3kg. Regretfully the surgery appeared to have no effect on men’s cancer risk.

The beneficial effect of weight-loss surgery on women seemed to apply to a wide range of cancers.

However, exactly why the surgery had a beneficial effect remains a mystery - analysis could find no direct link with losing weight, or reducing food intake.

[This Heath report was published in the online edition of BBC News..Read the full article here. Obesity ops 'may cut cancer risk' Image from the BBC]

Well that’s what the Londoners plan to do and it’s going to turn out to be a 75 million pound government campaign. Now these pounds are as in money, not fat and that’s how much the British feel about weight loss.

To be unveiled today under a campaign name ‘Change4Life’, Londoners will see posters and leaflets with images of clogged-up arteries, oozing fat and bloated bodies.

Their target are parents who do not realize that their kids are overweight and the National Obesity Forum hopes to get these parents to do something about it. All of this is part of a run up to a larger campaign drive which will encourage and educate Londoners about fitness ahead of the London Olympics in 2012.

So it looks like it’s going to a fit London come the next Olympics.

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