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Obesity is considered a major risk factor for many chronic, debilitating and life-threatening diseases. Over the past two decades the prevalence of obesity has more than doubled in New Zealand... Read more

Obesity is considered a major risk factor for many chronic, debilitating and life-threatening diseases. Over the past two decades the prevalence of obesity has more than doubled in New Zealand adults. Obesity is more common in Māori, Pacific and South Asian populations compared with other New Zealanders.

Lifestyle approaches involve combined (eg, food, activity and behavioural based approaches – the FAB approach) rather than single factor approaches to weight loss.  The FAB approach should be the first treatment option for weight loss and sustained for weight maintenance.

Maintaining a healthy body weight requires an environment and society where individuals, families and whanau, and communities are supported to eat well and live physically active lives.

Later Diabetes Risk Rises With Midlife Weight Gain, Measures of Central Adiposity

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by corinne roberts • posted on 2 July 2010

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June 25, 2010 (Chicago, Illinois) — Weight gain as well as familiar, easily obtained measures of central adiposity in middle-aged and elderly adults can point to increased risk of developing diabetes in later years, both overall and in both women and men specifically, suggests a prospective analysis based on the participants in the Cardiovascular Health Study [1].

In a cohort of more than 4000 people drawn from four communities across the US who were followed for a median of about 12 years, body-mass index (BMI), weight, fat mass, and waist-to-hip ratio and waist-to-height ratio at age 65 were significant predictors of incident diabetes. "For each measure, there was a graded increase in the risk of diabetes, with increasing quintiles of adiposity," write the authors, led by Dr Mary L Biggs (University of Washington, Seattle), in the June 23/30, 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Read more: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/724194?sssdmh=dm1.623717&src=nldne&uac=145361HX

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