FratFiles

• Save Paper

Obese women also carry the risk of having syndromes. Harvard School of Public Health stated that abdominal obesity is related to metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is characterized by a group of metabolic risk factors in one person. This includes central obesity of excessive fat tissue in and around the abdomen. The underlying causes of this syndrome are overweight or obesity, physical inactivity and genetic factors. People with the metabolic syndrome are at increased risk of coronary heart disease, other diseases related to plaque buildups in artery walls. More studies are needed to understand the relationship between metabolic risk factors and the efficacy of drug therapy in women who have the metabolic syndrome. To gain the most benefit from modifying multiple metabolic risk factors, the underlying insulin-resistant sate must become a target of therapy. The safest, most effective and preferred way to reduce insulin resistance in overweight and obese people is weight......

View the rest of this paper...

Approximate Word Count: 253
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

Similar Essays

1. Obesity
   

   obesity. Today, approximately ... rise. Since the1960's childhood obesity has
   increased by 54 percent in children ages six to eleven. In ...

2. Obesity
   

   Obesity. Obesity 1 Research Paper Obesity David Fleming Block 1 Obesity 2 Obesity
   has become a very common thing these days in America. ...

3. Obesity
   

   Obesity. Background Obesity is caused from increased consumption of foods high in
   saturated fat and sugars combined with a reduction in physical activity. ...

4. Obesity
   

   Obesity. Obesity There is a disorder in the United States, as well as throughout
   the world, that has reached epidemic proportions. ... “Obesity” Online. ...

5. Obesity
   

   obesity. Saidah ... obese. Obesity is definitely becoming a serious epidemic in
   the United States, and has many public health implications. ...