Those chemicals constantly being "on" are bad for us, and they lead to anxiety and depression and to, I think, diabetes and being obese.
While obesity is a major risk factor for heart disease as well as other diseases like diabetes and even cancer, obese patients seem to have a survival benefit in certain situations.
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Many people with type 2 diabetes are also obese, and obesity is linked to a greater risk of some types of cancer.
Overall, the death rate in overweight and obese people with diabetes was 1.5% per year, compared with 2.8% in thin patients.
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To be sure, plenty of obese people never develop diabetes, and plenty of fit people do: the causes of the disease are not purely behavioural.
The safety and efficacy of Belviq were evaluated in three randomized, placebo-controlled trials that included nearly 8, 000 obese and overweight patients, with and without type 2 diabetes, treated for 52 to 104 weeks.
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Obese people are at greater risk of heart attacks, diabetes, strokes and a host of other ailments that not merely hurt them, but stretch America's already overtaxed health-care system.
Mathur and her colleagues are also working with the American Diabetes Association to test a group of people with prediabetes who are overweight or obese and have elevated levels of methane in their breath.
Most of these cases are Type 2 diabetes, caused by the UK's ageing population and rapidly rising numbers of overweight and obese people.
The findings raise the alarm that diabetes isn't just a disease of the overweight or obese, says Carnethon, and that physicians should be looking for signs even among their leaner patients, particularly those who are elderly.
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Type 2 diabetes, which is also called adult onset diabetes, is a growing problem in the Western world and is most common in the overweight and the obese.
Obese people are at a much higher risk for heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, arthritis and some cancers.
Being overweight or obese is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As a result, he was obese, he was binge-eating and was also taking the maximum medication to cope with his diabetes.
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