Parents ignore the obesity of kids

A survey was conducted about obese kids and their parents. It was found that most parents whose kids are obese don't see them in that way.That is worrisome because obese children run the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol problems and other ailments more commonly found in adults. And overweight children are likely to grow up to be overweight adults.

Many parents think that their children will out of obesity as they grow or something will change in older age.Among parents with an obese, or extremely overweight, child ages 6 to 11, 43 percent said their child was "about the right weight," 37 percent responded "slightly overweight," and 13 percent said "very overweight." Others said "slightly underweight The Michigan researchers said that, too, suggests parents underestimate their children's weight. For that cause they take lightly the living style and eating habit of children. This assumption aggravate the problem.

Experts said doctors need to help parents better understand the health risks of childhood obesity.

Last 4 of the 7 tips to supercharge your health

4-Start yoga and pranayam{breathing exercise}
Yoga has been around in some form or other for thousands of years. This spiritual practice has many benefits and it has quickly become a popular choice to thousands of people strictly for health reasons. Not only does Yoga give your muscles and ligaments a good stretch, it also tones the body, and best of all it helps to relax. You could start by taking yoga classes at a local gym. Once you want to get really serious find a licensed yoga practitioner in your area and enroll in the more advanced classes. Oxygen through breathing does the miracle...

5-Graze don't binge
Eat smaller meals during the day (4 to 6). This will keep your blood-sugar levels stable throughout the day. Think quality not quantity. Eat more fruits, vegetables, lean meats. Great options include hard-boiled eggs, small broiled/baked chicken breast, and fresh vegetables such as carrots, celery sticks. If you have a craving for something sweet, many delicious options are available such as Yoplait yogurt or Weight Watchers. You don't have deprive yourself, simply consume these in moderation ...
6-Daily drink 8 glasses of water
It should be no mystery that adequate water consumption is indispensable for good health. Water helps flush out toxins and other wastes in our system. It replenishes keeps you hydrated, reduces hunger, which assists with weight loss, and keeps our skin healthy. Start by drinking 2 glasses of water first thing in the morning. After that, drink a glass at regular intervals including one with each meal. If you are not used to drinking water, it might be a little difficult at first, but very soon, you will get into the habit. Once you get used to general feeling of well-being you will never go back. So, remember - 8 glasses a day every day...
7-Take supplements
What do we need supplements do? Multiple vitamin-mineral supplements contain a variable number of essential and non-essential nutrients. Their primary purpose is to provide a convenient way to take a variety of supplemental nutrients from a single product. Otherwise, to fulfill our daily requirements for vitamins and minerals we will have to eat massively large quantities of food. Most of these multi-vitamin/multi-mineral supplements contain at least 100% of the U.S. Recommended Dietary Allowance (USRDA) of all vitamins. So, talk to your doctor and figure out what's the best route for you.

We will not be adhere to the above rules always but should follow as maximum as possible
Written by Mike Singh

3 0f the 7 Guaranteed ways to Supercharge your Health

1-Stop smoking
If you are a smoker, you have heard this enough number of times. Just in the United States alone 400,000 people die from smoking every year. So, people probably don't hear this enough. There is no other way to say it - smoking is not only bad for your health, it adversely affects everybody around you. Get help - join a support group, use nicotine substitutes, cut back slowly, begin by just taking one step ...
2-Add green tea to your daily diet
Results of several research studies clearly show that the addition of green tea to your daily diet provides a variety of health benefits. These range from regulating fat metabolism, reducing blood pressure (3) Fights cancer (4) Reduces blood pressure and many more. This is truly nature's wonder drug. Give it a try.

3-Exercise 180 minutes a week
That's 30 minutes a day, 6 days a week. Take a walk, go for a run, lift weights or a combination of these. Exercise helps burn fat and builds muscle. Simply walking 30 minutes a day will help burn an extra 175-225 calories! Choose whatever fits your style and schedule. The best time to exercise is in the morning because your body will be burning fat for energy due to the limited availability of carbs in your system. Get up in the morning and get moving ..

Other four tips will be in the next post.

Viewing TV boost bloodpressure risk for obese children

Obese children who watch a lot of television are more likely to have high blood pressure than heavy children who don't spend as much time in front of the tube, the results of a new study shows.

According to the researchers the psychological stress and eating junk food infront of television may be responsible for rise in blood pressure.

Obese children who watched 2 to 4 hours of TV each day were 2.5 times more likely than their peers who watched less TV to have high blood pressure,researchers found, while kids who watched more than 4 hours daily had more than triple the risk of having high blood pressure.

To investigate this relationship, researchers evaluated 546 children between 4 and 17 years old who were seeking treatment for obesity. Forty-three percent had high blood pressure.

The blood pressure of children is not generally measured but when the child is obese the parents should be careful and should check up the blood pressure to monitor the health regularly.

Weight gain affects breast cancer survival

New research suggests that for every 11 pounds a woman gains after being diagnosed with breast cancer, the chances of it proving fatal go up 14 percent. Controlling the weight is a good idea but its importance increases when woman is diagonosed with breast cancer. Diet control and exercise play an important role after a breast cancer diagonsis.

The chance of survival is more when a patient look for diet control and exercise to avoid the gaining of weight. From 1998 to 2001, all survivors were mailed surveys asking for updated information on these factors and lifestyle habits like exercise and diet.

After an average of six years of followup since their diagnoses, 121 breast cancer deaths and 428 non-breast cancer deaths had occurred. For every 11 pounds of weight gain after diagnosis, the risk of death from breast cancer or other causes increased by 14 percent.
Previous research found that women who exercised after being diagnosed with breast cancer cut their chance of dying by as much as one-half, depending on how much exercise they did.

Readers should advise any woman diagonosed with breast cancer to remain concious about their weight.

Source-www.news yahoo.com

Nanotechnology used to detect cancer

Nanotechnolgy has taken the place of big machines. A nano-scale tool that distinguishes soft cancerous cells from stiffer normal ones could save lives by making it easier to diagnose cancer.

Using atomic force microscopes, a team of US scientists showed for the first time that the surface of living cancer cells were more than 70 percent softer than their healthy counterparts.
This method was found successful in finding malignant cells in case of lung, breast and pancreatic cancers.

Currently, pathologists examine surgically-removed tissue by placing stained, thinly-sliced sections on a glass slide and looking at them under a microscope for signs of the disease.

Researchers should be able to diagnose cancerous cells perfectly using this method because sometimes normal cells seems to be malignant.