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Obesity: Encyclopedia - Obesity

Obesity is a condition where the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and mammals is increased to the point where it may impair health. Obesity in wild animals is relatively rare, but it is common in domestic animals like pigs and household pets who may be overfed and underexercised. In humans it is generally considered to be a leading cause of health problems. Excessive body weight has been shown to predispose to various forms of disease, particularly cardiovascular disease. Interventions, such as weigh ...

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Obesity - Causes

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Obesity: Encyclopedia II - Obesity - Causes Obesity - Causative factors. When energy intake exceeds energy expenditure, fat cells (and to a lesser extent muscle and liver cells) throughout the body take in the energy and store it as fat. In its simplest conception, therefore, obesity is only made possible when the lifetime energy intake exceeds lifetime energy expenditure by more than it does for individuals of "normal weight." In all individuals, the excess energy utilized to generate fat reserves is minute relative to the total number of calories ...

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Obesity: Encyclopedia - Underweight

Underweight refers to a human who is considered to be under a healthy weight. The definition is usually made with reference to the body mass index (BMI). Most consider individuals under 18.5 to be underweight - although some authorities use a higher value of 20. It is important to note that the BMI is a statistical estimate and some indivduals classified as underweight may be perfectly healthy. Underweight - Problems. Underweight individuals generally have poor physical stamina and a weak immune system - le ...

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Obesity: Encyclopedia - Weight loss

In the context of physical health, weight loss is the process of losing body weight, typically by losing fat. To achieve weight loss, more calories must be expended than taken in. This can be achieved by reducing the amount of food consumed, increasing physical activity or a combination of the two. For healthy weight loss, most experts recommend a combination of healthy eating patterns and regular physical exercise. Other methods of losing weight include use of prescribed or herbal drugs or chemicals that decrease appetite and/or incr ...

Obesity: Encyclopedia - Adipose tissue

Adipose tissue is an anatomical term for loose connective tissue composed of adipocytes. Its main role is to store energy in the form of fat, although it also cushions and insulates the body. It has an important endocrine function in producing recently-discovered hormones such as leptin, resistin and TNFα. Adipose tissue - Anatomical features. Adipose tissue is primarily located beneath the skin, but is also found around internal organs. In the skin, it accumulates in the deepest level, the subcutaneous la ...

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Obesity: Encyclopedia - Anti-obesity drug

Anti-obesity drugs include all pharmacological treatments intended to reduce or control weight. Because these drugs are intended to alter one of the fundamental processes of the human body, anti-obesity drugs are medically prescribed only in cases of morbid obesity, where weight loss is life-saving. Anti-obesity drug - Mechanisms of action. Anti-obesity drugs operate through one or more of the following mechanisms: Suppression of the appetite. Increase of the body's metabolism. Including:

Obesity: Encyclopedia - Beer belly

A beer belly or beer gut is a physical human trait characterised by a horizontal overhang of fat above the waist, with little apparent fat on the rest of the body. Although it is not solely caused by the consumption of beer, it is a contributing factor. The beer belly is usually associated with men (women tend to store excess fat in other areas such as the hips and buttocks). A lack of muscle tone in the abdominal muscles contributes to the appearance of the beer be ...

Obesity: Encyclopedia - Benzphetamine

Benzphetamine (brand name: Didrex) is an anti-obesity drug marketed under this brand in the USA by Pharmacia. Benzphetamine is used as a short term adjunct in management of exogenous obesity. It is closely related to amphetamine. 4-FMP Amphetamine Benzphetamine Dextroamphetamine dl-Amphetamine MDMA Methamphetamine Paramethoxyamphetamine Categories: Amphetamines | Anorectics | Obesity ...

Obesity: Encyclopedia - Agouti-related peptide

Agouti-related peptide (AgRP) is a neuropeptide created in the arcuate nucleus of the brain that increases appetite and decreases metabolism. It is one of the most potent and long-lasting of appetite stimulators. Understanding the role AgRP plays in weight gain may assist in developing pharmaceutical models for treating obesity. Categories: Biochemicals | Obesity Other related archivesBiochemicals, Obesity, appetite, arcuat

Obesity: Encyclopedia - FAT

FAT may mean: Factory acceptance test (see Acceptance test), a software engineering concept Far Eastern Air Transport, a Chinese airline File Allocation Table, a file system format used by Microsoft operating systems Forces Armées Tchadiennes, the Chad armed forces of the government of President Félix Malloum Fresno Yosemite International Airport (IATA airport code FAT) See also. Fat, a generic term for a class of lipids in biochemistry ...

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Obesity: Encyclopedia - Birth weight

Large for gestational age: Weight is above the 90th percentile at gestational age Macrosomia: Weight is above a defined limit at any gestational age Appropriate for gestational age: Normal birth weight Small for gestational age: Weight is below the 10th percentile at gestational age Low birth weight: Weight is below a defined limit at any gestational age Birth weight is the weight of a baby at its birth. It has direct links with the gest ...

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Obesity: Encyclopedia - Visfatin

Visfatin (also known as pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor or PBEF) is a cytokine that is highly expressed in visceral fat and whose blood levels correlate with obesity. It is considered a new member of the larger group of adipokines which also includes leptin and adiponectin. It is a natural insulin mimetic since it has been shown to bind to insulin receptors. Its existence was first described by Fukuhara et al in 2005. They discovered its production in a cDNA collection of an obese female. It was found to ...

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Obesity: Encyclopedia - Venus figurines

Venus figurines is an umbrella term for a number of prehistoric items, mostly in statuette form, of obese or heavily pregnant women from the Aurignacian or Gravettian period of the upper Palaeolithic, found in Europe. They are among the oldest ceramics known. Like many such artifacts, their true cultural meaning may never be known; however, given that at the time of their construction human society would not have the same tendency towards obesity as it has today (as foodstuffs, particularly those which are fattening, would have been s ...

Obesity: Encyclopedia - Bariatrics

Bariatrics is the specialty of medicine dealing with the medical and surgical treatment of obesity. Specialists in surgical bariatrics are bariatric surgeons. The term bariatrics was created around 1965 from the Greek root baro ("weight," as in barometer) and suffix -iatrics ("a branch of medicine," as in pediatrics). Bariatrics - Bariatric procedures. Adjustable gastric band ("Lap band") Duodenal switch ("Biliopancreatic Diversion")Including:

Bariatrics - Bariatric procedures

Obesity: Encyclopedia - Body weight

Body weight is simply the weight of any animal, including humans. The term is usually encountered in connection with: food and feeding behaviour normal and abnormal growth and development the physiological and hormonal control of ingestion and digestion foraging for food in non-human animals hunger and other motivations to eat problems in regulating body weight, often resulting in obesity eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and ...

Obesity: Encyclopedia - Varicose veins

Varicose veins are veins on the leg which are large, twisted, and ropelike, and can cause pain, swelling, or itching. They are an extreme form of telangiectasia, or spider veins. Varicose veins are more common in women than in men, and are linked with heredity. Other related factors are pregnancy, obesity, menopause, aging, prolonged standing and abdominal straining. Varicose veins are bulging veins that are larger t ...

Obesity: Encyclopedia - Adiponectin

Adiponectin (also referred to as Acrp30, apM1) is a protein hormone that modulates a number of metabolic processes, including glucose regulation and fatty acid catabolism. Adiponectin is exclusively secreted from adipose tissue into the bloodstream and is very abundant in plasma relative to many hormones. Levels of the hormone are inversely correlated with body mass index (BMI). The hormone plays a role in metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes, obesity and atherosclerosis. Adiponectin - History of Adi ...