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Is Obesity the Chicken or the Egg for Disease Risk?

Novel mice experiments carried out by researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center are helping to clarify the relationship of fat and disease. Mice bred not to be able to store fat, which were then fed a high fat diet, became diabetic and diseased much faster than the mice who could store the surplus calories as fat.

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Liver Fat is a Super-Size Problem

The progressive and improper accumulation of fat in your liver is a key marker that accurately reflects obesity-related disease risk. This is true regardless of where you gain fat.

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Easy Ways to Calculate Your Goal Weight and Maximum Weight

Calculating your Body Mass Index (BMI) is seldom done due to the complexity of the formula. Yet, it is important for people to have a good idea when extra weight is heading in the direction of disease risk. Researchers are now proposing a simple way for individuals to understand their “Maximum Weight Limit.”

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