Some medications exist for weight loss. These medications are moderately effective, although they often have side effects that limit their widespread use. The history of diet medications has been plagued with adverse health outcomes, including valvular heart disease and heart arrhythmias. Many of these medications have focused on increasing the metabolic rate or suppressing appetite. Wieght loss with orlistat and sibultramine medications are gaining more popular among people looking to loss their weight trough medications (more…)

Adipose tissue fat is not simply a reservoir for excess nutrients, but rather an active and dynamic organ capable of expressing biologically active fat-derived peptides (FDPs). At times of acute injury, macrophages contribute to the release of these peptides and the term inflammatory markers is often applied, but in the basal state, adipose tissue is the predominant source of production. Some of these FDPs may have a role in the development of the obesity metabolic syndrome of aging and other obesity-related diseases. (more…)

Not all body fat is equally bad for your health. It is widely known that body fat distribution is extremely important. There is increasing evidence for the deleterious effects of Visceral Fat on aging. Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is an epidemiological tool that demonstrates a correlation between Visceral Fat and development of diabetes mellitus, stroke, coronary artery disease, and mortality. This ratio is easily determined by dividing the measurement of waist circumference by hip circumference. (more…)

Obesity in the elderly is a major health crisis facing our population that may predispose the elderly to the same adverse health outcomes facing the younger, obese population. However, several studies have suggested that the risk of obesity on life span is less in the elderly and may even become insignificant. However, these studies have found an increase in disability in older subjects with obesity. (more…)

Concomitant with the global increase in obesity is the increase in the metabolic syndrome. The metabolic syndrome, also known as the metabolic syndrome of aging, syndrome X, and the insulin resistance syndrome, is a constellation of abnormal metabolism including glucose intolerance (impaired glucose tolerance, impaired fasting glucose, and type 2 diabetes & diabetes in elderly), central (abdominal) obesity in genes, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. (more…)

Obesity results from an imbalance between caloric consumption and caloric expenditure over a prolonged period. Weight gain occurs when there is a greater consumption of calories than expenditure. The expenditure of calories is complex and results from likely combinations of metabolic, genetic, and individual factors. Genetics and environment may predispose to weight gain, but it is only the consumption of calories in excess of utilization that can cause weight gain. (more…)

Some researches on relation between exercise and body human health results indicate that in addition to increasing muscle capacity, physical activity can help improve strength, balance, joint mobility, flexibility, agility, the speed with which one walks and physical coordination as a whole. In addition, physical activity has effects favorably on metabolism, blood pressure regulation, and prevention of an excessive increase in weight. (more…)

Lifestyle and behavioral factors are responsible for a multiple chronic aging diseases and associated to morbidity and mortality tendencies. In the U.S., nearly 50 million adults are smoking. Annually, smoking alone is responsibility for about 400,000 deaths.

As you probably know, anyone who ever try to give up smoking is facing some difficulties most of the time. (more…)

As you probably know, sex hormone in women is declining with age. Men also experiencing the same, even though the declining rate is not as steep drop like women menopause. But the effect is substantial in well being and fertility. Until recent years, there has been a lot concern about the subject of testosterone levels in men. Andropause as the name suggest, is declining 1% per year of testosterone levels hormone for men age over 30 years. This significantly put those men group in risk of having disease-syndromes related to andropause. (more…)

Chronic diseases are not generally prevented by vaccines or cured by medication, nor do they just disappear. To a large degree, the major chronic disease killers—heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes—are an extension of what people do, or not do, as they go about their daily lives. (more…)