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Adolescents who are obese do not have enough fresh produce, dairy, or fiber in their diet and may be more likely than normal weight adolescents in the development of heart and other health problems, according to a new study.

This does not mean you do not feel well as young people, but that their diets are not good for long-term good health.
The researchers analyzed blood tests of 33 young obese between 11 and 19 and compared the results with those of 19 normal-weight young in the same age group.

Diet quality is considered poor in all study participants. The obese adolescents had about the same daily intake of calories, protein, grain, and lots of fat, but significantly fewer servings of dairy products, fruits and vegetables.

Among the key findings:
Metabolic abnormalities suggest that the process of developing heart disease has already begun in these children [obese], so it is essential to make the ultimate lifestyle and diet changes, says lead study author Ashutosh Lal, MD, Children’s Hospital and Research Center in Oakland, California
In the study, obesity was defined as body mass index (BMI) greater than 95 percent of children of the same age. Normal weight was defined as having a BMI below the 85th percentile.
In terms of numbers than you might think that these children may feel sick, but did not, “said Lal. They are apparently feels good, but there are many things under the surface.

In all young people to test, obese and normal weight children alike, quality is considered poor diet – low in fruits and vegetables, fiber and dairy products. Children of obese and normal weight reported in questionnaires that ate similar amounts of grains, protein, fat and total calories.

However, portions obese youth reported significantly fewer dairy products and fruit tended to lots less. Their diet also was lower in vitamin C, vitamin D, potassium and vitamin A, found in fortified dairy products and brightly colored fruits and vegetables.
Researchers say that doctors should pay more attention to what young patients are eating, because the quality of the diet was low in normal weight youth and those who were obese.

Obese adolescents consume very few natural sources of antioxidants, fruits and vegetables and may have increased the needs of antioxidants on the basis of the inflammation associated with the [fat] additional adiposity, Lal said. For your heart health, obese adolescents need to eat better, not just eating less.

The research is presented in Atlanta on Nutrition of the American Heart Association, Physical Activity and Metabolism and Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Scientific Sessions 2011.

Drugs for osteoporosis may reduce by up to 40 percent the risk of breast cancer, according to a study by the Cancer Research Center Fred Hutchinson in Seattle (United States) that is published in the journal British Journal of Cancer.

The research found that women using bisphosphonate drugs for more than two years had nearly 40 percent lower risk compared with those not taking them.

New evidence against cancer

As explained Polly Newcomb, director of the study, “this large study provides new evidence that bisphosphonate use is associated with a significant reduction in risk of breast cancer.

The protective effect was observed only among women who were not obese. “Obese women may have elevated estrogen levels and therefore the underlying hormones could influence the ability of bisphosphonates to reduce the risk of breast cancer,” says Newcomb. Read the rest of this entry »