The best way to minimise risk is to take regular exercise and to lose excess weight.
But generally it appears men are less aware of the connection between excess weight and poorer health.
He grew up self-conscious about excess weight and felt like he couldn't keep up with the other kids.
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Carrying excess weight around the abdomen is linked to an increased risk of kidney disease, a study suggests.
After suffering a heart attack, doctors felt his excess weight of two stone could trigger other life threatening diseases.
Researchers also investigated how smoking influenced this relationship and how excess weight affected death risk from specific causes.
According to the OECD, for every 15 kilograms of excess weight, the risk of death increases by about 30%.
Dr Linne said many women expected to lose their excess weight after giving birth, particularly as a result of breastfeeding.
And let's make sure that what we're cutting is really excess weight.
At 23 years old and a muscular 204 pounds, he has kept his excess weight off for five years and sports a rippling six-pack.
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Ultra-slim at one-inch thin and just 3 pounds light, the TravelMate B113 is extremely manageable and easily fits students' backpacks without adding excess weight.
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However, the survival rate did not seem to be due to the delivery of cancer care or surgical complications related to excess weight, says Fleming.
The reasons why people gain excess weight vary -- and one drug isn't likely to address all these factors including lifestyle, food access and environment.
If these people have excess weight from belly fat but are still just normal weight (instead of overweight as you would expect) what does that mean?
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In 2003, the issue of passenger weight surfaced when a commuter plane crashed on takeoff from Charlotte, North Carolina, because of excess weight and a maintenance error.
Excess weight can convey weakness or a "lack of control, " says Amanda Sanders, a New York-based image consultant who has worked with senior executives at Fortune 500 firms.
And trimming excess weight can have a dramatic effect: every 100lb (about 45kg) removed from a Ford Focus, for example, improves its fuel-economy by a full mile a gallon.
When you do that you find about four in 10 children from the most deprived backgrounds are carrying excess weight, compared to nearly three in 10 from the richest.
Though intended only for the morbidly obese (those with 45 kilos or more of excess weight), the surgery is attracting the attention of thinner patients who want a quick fix.
People who carry excess weight, especially in their midsection, are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes because the fat in their tissues causes an imbalance of insulin in the body.
I'm not out of breath when I walk up and down the halls at work, and even sleeping is easier since I don't have all that excess weight pressing down on me.
"I think the two biggest public health messages are to supplement calcium with diet and keep your weight down, " said Dr. Rosen, explaining that excess weight can drive down vitamin D levels.
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About 24 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, and 90 percent of those cases are type 2 diabetes, which is more likely to occur with aging, excess weight and a sedentary lifestyle.
While the majority of experts and scientists believe that excess weight is unhealthy, Dr. Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, professor of medicine and public health at the University of California, Irvine, takes a different stance.
There are helpful primers on the role of different fats, the importance of protein and how excess weight plays into harmful inflammation in the body, which is linked to heart disease and other chronic conditions.
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That said, the ride is extremely smooth and comfortable (likely helped by that excess weight), and it's obvious by the design that the bike has an eye on casual cruising -- and it definitely delivers that.
While friends and family may be afraid to comment on a child's physique or put the excess weight down to "puppy fat", a doctor should not ignore tackling the issue openly with parents who may be in denial.
They will be re-supplied every 20 to 25 days on their mission but have had to put on excess weight because, although they will be taking in 6, 000 calories a day, they will be using up around 7, 500.
Secondly, there is a strong genetic component to weight and metabolism (studies suggest that this can be anywhere from 30 to 70 percent) so you may be genetically programmed to carry a bit more weight or have more difficulty losing excess weight.
Conversely, BMI may underestimate body fat in a very small-framed person, someone who has very little muscle mass, or a person who carries his or her excess weight mainly around the midsection and has very thin arms and legs (the so called apple shaped body type).
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