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Life frightening illnesses relating to obesity

February 11, 2017

Life frightening illnesses relating to obesity can attack at any stage in life

Life frightening illnesses relating to obesity: Interventions to obesity

Because of the life frightening illnesses associated with being obese and overweight, experts at AWAREmed health and wellness resource center under the leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury MD are united in finding lasting solutions professionally. To that effect, the time for intervention is now and all of us including healthcare providers like nurses have a duty to help in edging obese people to adopt changes to promote a healthier lifestyle with the main objective being the sustainability of life changes through modification of diet, physical activities and use of community supports.

Life frightening illnesses relating to obesity: Safe weight loss strategies

Older persons present special challenges when making changes in diet and activity levels. In patients over 65, the increase in chronic diseases associated with aging reduces physical activity and exercise capacity, making it more difficult for elderly persons to lose weight.
Widowhood, loneliness, isolation, and depression are other factors that need to be addressed during weight-loss programs.
Participation in these programs by family members, as well as the caregiver(s), is especially important if the older person’s vision and hearing are impaired or if there is cognitive impairment.
Appropriate nutritional counseling through referral to a registered dietitian is necessary to ensure that the older adult’s daily nutritional requirements are met during weight-loss programs.
The benefits and risks of weight reduction in older adults should be carefully considered.
Loss of lean body mass, which is already diminished in older adults, may not be appropriate in persons over 65 years of age because the loss of fat-free mass in older adults is associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
A weight loss program that minimizes muscle and bone loss is necessary for the older adults who are obese and have functional impairments or metabolic complications that might be improved by weight loss.
Improving physical function and helping to preserve muscle and bone mass through regular physical exercise is important for older adults who are obese.
Increasing flexibility, endurance, and strength should be the objective of regular exercise in older adults who are obese.

Finally, to ensuring that the life of our old people well cares for the use of professionals who are well conversant with obesity is very important all the way. Together we have a duty to help patients and especially the older obese people to manage their weight along with general considerations to facilitate weight loss safely. Doctor Akoury is one of the most trusted and respected healthcare professionals who also the founded AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, she is committed to helping people globally in all matters of overweight and obesity in the most natural way and putting emphasis on Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE. It is, therefore, time for you to take the lead role in combating the obesity epidemic in our societies today and kick out this problem from our neighborhood by scheduling an appointment with her now for the commencement of your recovery process.

Life frightening illnesses relating to obesity: Interventions to obesity

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Old age obesity and overweight problems

February 11, 2017

Old age obesity and overweight problems can be challenging but must be dealt with all the same

Old age obesity and overweight problems: Environmental and social factors

When we talk about the environment we look at the wider spectrum to include the world around us, access to healthy food and safe sidewalk. All these in a way influences what we feed on, our engagement in physical activities and our general lifestyle. For instance, if you are residing in the unsecure neighborhood with lots of mugging and kidnapping you are likely not to take a walk along the path and use your car each time you want to leave the house for whatever reason. All these will reduce and limit your involvement in regular physical activities. In the same way, you may be from time to time take your meals from the restaurants possibly because of nature of your work. You report early and leave very late and in the process, you have very little time going to the groceries to buy your supply for home-made food. These are reasons that can cause you to have a very inactive kitchen in your home and we all know that foods from the restaurants are all junk full of calories. These high calorie processed food are less expensive and often easy to prepare. Them being readily available, makes them easy prey for low-income people who may not afford the more nutritious food stuff which is relatively costly. Because of these circumstances, the prevalence of old age obesity and weight gain in older people is likely to continue being on the rise.

Old age obesity and overweight problems: Other causes of obesity

Other conditions and illnesses that are associated with both weight gain and obesity include:

Hyperthyroidism
Cushing’s syndrome
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Depression

The older adults who are obese are more likely than those who are not obese to report symptoms of depression such as:

Feelings of sadness
Worthlessness
Hopelessness

The inadequacy of sleep may contribute to obesity, as well as certain drugs, such as steroids and some antidepressants that may stimulate the appetite, cause water retention, or slow the metabolism rate.

Finally, the complex relationship between functional ability and lifestyle patterns merits attention as a contributor to obesity. Joint pain decreased mobility, and activity intolerance may lead to weight gain because of decreased activity. Older people compared to young people may experience functional limitations associated with chronic illnesses that may trigger stress, pain, and depression cycle that can result in lifestyle patterns leading obesity necessitating the need to be in constant touch with an expert in matters of weight gain and obesity a service you will comfortably get at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under Doctor Dalal Akoury who has been helping people solve their weight-related problems for more than two decades now. The kind of treatment you will get from this facility is unique and natural since doctor Akoury’s practice focuses on personalized medicine through healthy lifestyle choices that deal with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of patching up symptoms. You can call her on telephone number 843 213 1480 to schedule an appointment now and experience the end result which is tailored to have complete oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE.

Old age obesity and overweight problems: Environmental and social factors

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Toxic surrounding and obesity vice

February 2, 2017

Toxic surrounding and obesity vice can be fought effectively by healthy living

Toxic surrounding and obesity vice: Is the environmental toxic to blame

Truth be told, the world around us is not the way it was some four or five decades ago thanks to technology that has made industrialization to take root in all the states across the globe. One of the measures used to establish the economy of any given nation is how well she is able to add value to her natural resources like agricultural produce and mineral deposits. The process of adding value to this natural produce has been one of the sources of pollution of the environment in all dimensions. The air, water, and the land are all victims of pollution ingredients emanating from the various industries processing different products we consume today. Because of this, we are forced to live in the toxic surrounding which is not healthy for habitation. It is on this background that we want to engage the expert opinion from the professionals at AWAREmed health and wellness resource center under the able leadership f doctor Dalal Akoury MD in discussing the effects of our toxic surrounding and the vice of obesity as a health condition. And even as we get to the discussion, you are free to call on doctor Akoury anytime in case you are having any burning concern.

Are we surrounded by toxins?

First thing first, are we surrounded by toxins? In response to this, let me as a question “What is in that fat when you lose it? Interesting indeed, because we are rapidly being exposed to both internal and external toxins.

External toxins – are those elements derived from the environment and may enter the body when it’s being subjected to an overwhelming array of chemicals, pesticides, and herbicides that contaminate practically everything we come into contact with like the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat while Internal toxins arises from the gut as breakdown products of our own metabolism.

Under normal circumstances, in the past, our ancestors were able to stay healthy by detoxifying their bodies using the endogenous detoxification mechanisms something we find very difficult doing today. What we would call our endogenous detoxification mechanisms are so much overloaded that the excess toxins are stored in our fat depots.

When a person loses weight (fat) these stored toxins (e.g. bisphenol, DDT etc.) are released back into the body where further interfering with normal metabolism. It has even been suggested that the release of toxins during fat loss may be responsible for slowing down weight loss and even stopping it altogether in some cases. Looking at the increase of toxins we often released into our body systems when losing weight it is necessary that our mothers and ladies, in general, should embrace weight loss before they can plan to have children i.e. getting pregnant. This will prevent the possible damage to the unborn child’s brain.

Toxic surroundings and obesity vice: Effects of toxins

The presence of toxins in our may change our metabolism in many ways like:

Disrupt the function of hormones
Damage the mitochondria in our cells
Increase inflammation and oxidative stress
Lower the levels of the thyroid hormones we produce
Change our circadian rhythms and the autonomic nervous system

All of these changes can eventually hamper the most important weight control mechanisms in the human body. According to researchers, writing in the Italian Journal of Pediatrics, recent accumulating evidence indicates that obesity may present an adverse health consequence of exposure during the critical developmental window to environmental chemicals disrupting endocrine function. The critical developmental window is the period from conception through fetal development in the mother’s womb until the end of the first two years of life. Infants and young children are probably the most vulnerable group when it comes to exposure to harmful chemicals and endocrine disrupters.

Toxic surroundings and obesity vice: Is the environmental toxic to blame

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Environmental toxic nature and obesity

February 2, 2017

Environmental toxic nature and obesity can be very cruel to children

Environmental toxic nature and obesity: Chemicals contaminants

Knowing what being obese can do to one’s life is reason enough to be careful in all that we do that might trigger weight gain. The life we live needs to demonstrate that despite the environmental toxic nature we live in, our actions doesn’t contribute to the cause of obesity and being overweight. It is true that many experts have described the many potentially obesogenic actions of a variety of chemicals that contaminate our environment like the so-called organotins which interfere with normal fat metabolism and can be found in marine paints, wood catalysts and plasticizers, slime-preventing chemicals in industrial water systems and fungicides in foods. It is believed that the major environmental sources of organotins are contaminated seafood, agricultural products, drinking water and leaching from plastics. Having said that doctor Dalal Akoury MD and founder of AWAREmed health and wellness resource center reiterates that we have a duty of cleaning up our surrounding if we want to make any meaningful progress in this journey of controlling weight gain objectively.

Environmental toxic nature and obesity: What can be done to clear the contaminants?

At the moment there are no general solutions to this problem. Faced with ever increasing contamination of our water supplies, foods, and the atmosphere, many nations and the entire global population seem to be helpless to stop this attack on our fat-regulation systems. Until more research is done to pinpoint the most dangerous chemicals and ways are found to reduce their presence in our water, food, and air, the human race appears to be defenseless but to continue gaining weight under these circumstances. Take, for instance, if we had to remove the hundreds of chemicals found in the water supply, water would become so expensive that most of us could not afford it. Many years ago I attended a congress dedicated to water purification. As delegates, we were taken on a visit to a local water purification plant. The engineer in charge showed us the various processes that were then used to remove undesirable solid waste from the water and to disinfect it against the majority of pathogens. He then smilingly presented us with a glass of clear recycled water and asked who would like a drink! No one volunteered, so he downed the glass of water himself.

When I asked this same engineer what processes were available to remove chemicals and contaminants such as estrogens derivatives from the water before it was recycled, he said that although such processes existed, they were prohibitively expensive as they required the water to be passed through resin columns. Such processes (reverse osmosis filtration, Nanofiltration or granular activated carbon filtration), are probably even more expensive nowadays, so most people will continue to be exposed to organotins and other obesogenic compounds.

Let’s support actions to keep our precious water supply as clean as we can because once a nation’s water supply becomes toxic, the food supply also becomes contaminated and toxic. With acid drainage from the mines, millions of women using hormones and collapsing waste purification systems in many municipalities across nations we appear to be helpless to avoid the effects of obesogens in our environment. It is painful to know that in some nations and majority for that matter, things are coming to the point of helplessness. What then can you do on your part? If you know of any of your friends or family members struggling with obesity irrespective of how they became obese you can schedule an appointment with doctor Akoury and she will help you professionally in all your weight loss concerns.

Environmental toxic nature and obesity: Chemicals contaminants

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Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis

January 23, 2017

Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis a weight loss motivating factor

Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis: Upper body obesity

The HPA (Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal axis) axis is one of two major neuroendocrine systems associated with the stress response. Corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH), secreted from the Para-ventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus, stimulates the synthesis of adrenocorticotropic (ACTH) from the anterior pituitary gland. Other hypothalamic ACTH secretagogues are arginine vasopressin and oxytocin, also produced in the PVN. Physical stressors such as hypoglycemia, hemorrhage, and immune stimuli activate PVN neurons expressing arginine vasopressin and CRH. ACTH stimulates cortisol production from the adrenal cortex. And according to the experts at AWAREmed health and wellness resource center under the leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury MD, There is clear evidence that cortisol levels may be related to obesity and metabolic disease and that is based on clinical observations of Cushing’s syndrome; the pathological hypercortisolemia in Cushing’s syndrome is associated with UBO, glucose intolerance [impaired glucose tolerance (IGT)], and hypertension. Adrenalectomy in Cushing’s syndrome patients reverses IGT and obesity. Research findings in the last decade has demonstrated that obesity and metabolic syndrome are characterized by chronic inflammation.

Fetal programming, stress, and obesity

Stress experienced in early life may also be a risk factor in the development of obesity and metabolic syndrome. A study on nonhuman primates reported that juvenile bonnet macaque monkeys exhibit greater weight, BMI, waist circumference, and insulin resistance if their mothers are exposed to food insecurity when the monkeys are young (age 3–5 months) further explaining why stress is a serious factor.

Sleep deprivation and obesity

In the past 30 years, the average nightly sleep duration has decreased from 8–9 to 7 h per night. Currently, 30% of all adults in the USA sleep less than 6 h per night. Sleep deprivation has been linked to both increased risk for obesity. Epidemiological studies have reported a negative association between BMI and sleep duration in adults and, children. Sleep deprivation is suggested to be a chronic stressor that may contribute to increased risk for obesity and metabolic diseases, possibly in part through HPA axis dysregulation, although the data are inconsistent. Sleep deprivation resulted in decreased night-time and morning plasma cortisol levels, or increased night-time plasma cortisol levels in other studies.

Finally, from the professional desk at AWAREmed health center, the current review provides basic support for the relationship between chronic stress, alterations in HPA activity, and obesity. Although animal models provide evidence of the association of stress, HPA axis, and metabolic diseases, human studies have proven to be more challenging, with more understated changes in the HPA axis. Therefore, for us to be safe from all these research findings, we have a duty to place both individually and collectively. And because of this, doctor Akoury established this health center to help in the transformation of people’s lives through increasing awareness about health and wellness and by empowering individuals to find their own inner healing power. Besides that, it will interest you to note that doctor Akoury’s practice focuses on personalized medicine through healthy lifestyle choices that deal with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of patching up symptoms making her the best for you and your loved ones. You can schedule an appointment with her on telephone number 843 213 1480 for the commencement of your recovery process.