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Teenage Obesity Linked To Increased Risk Of MS

sciencedaily.com — Teenage women who are obese may be more than twice as likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS) as adults compared to female teens who are not obese, according to a new study.

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  • BossKey, on 11/15/2009, -2/+36Did anybody else read it as "Teenage Obesity Linked to Increased Risk of Microsoft"
  • michaelpinto, on 11/15/2009, -3/+21A small minority of folks (mostly middle to upper class) get the concept that diet and exercise = health. But we need to make a national effort to make it easier for people to eat better and get exercise. I live in urban neighborhood and it's a real healthy food desert. For example you can walk into any bodega and find over twenty brands of beer, but if you're looking for something as exotic as skim milk you're out of luck. And sadly in a recession people eat worse.
  • GrammerPants, on 11/15/2009, -1/+18Wow who would have thought being obese is bad for you.
  • stonecircle, on 11/15/2009, -0/+13Meanwhile, you can live in my community, and defy all those pesky statistics linking weight to MS. The place I live has one of the highest rates of MS and Lou Gehrig's disease in the country. There's more to this MS 'epidemic' than meets the eye. None of us are immune.
  • bob1029, on 11/15/2009, -0/+7Off to the gym...
  • Trancers, on 11/15/2009, -3/+10teenage obesity linked to not getting off your fat ass and jogging

    people who hide behind the "genetic predisposition" ***** make me laugh. you were dealt a ***** hand, join the club. deal with it instead of wallowing in self pity.
  • bmiller949, on 11/15/2009, -0/+7Buried for my having MS and knowing that I could kick the ass of a stupid ***** like TheGrandCanyon. Pussy *****.
  • Idiggapony, on 11/15/2009, -0/+6I know a few things about human biology, and it was not intuitive to me that obesity during adolescence, but not during childhood or adulthood, would be associated with an increased likelihood of developing MS. After reading that short article, I still don't really understand the putative mechanism supposedly underlying this association. Could you please explain the connections between obesity and the immune system that led you to find this association to be intuitively obvious?
  • openbah, on 11/15/2009, -2/+8Obesity puts you at risk of yet another disease? Shocking...
  • DaDrake, on 11/15/2009, -1/+7I seriously doubt finding skim milk anywhere would be much of a challenge.

    Stores carry unhealthy products because customers demand it. And while healthy/organic foods can cost much more... there are certainly plenty of options just as cheap (or cheaper) than the more unhealthy options. But for the most part, people don't want to put in the time to cook healthier meals.

    The only way to "solve" this problem is by creating a culture that DEMANDS healthy food. Now try convincing 30-40 year olds with no health problems that they may regret those krispy cream donuts. It seems people only care to eat healthy if they have been indoctrinated from a young age or if they just came back from the doctors... and didn't receive good news.
  • Khirzask, on 11/15/2009, -0/+4Increased risk of smugness.
  • csueiras, on 11/15/2009, -0/+4And I guess that Teenage Thinness [is] Linked to Increased Risk of Apple ?
  • Snipz, on 11/15/2009, -1/+5I always thought the fat kids liked linux
  • elliotys, on 11/15/2009, -0/+3Good point, and anyone with half a brain would realize that while fat may increase the risk, it is not the only way to get MS. Some of these comments seem to have missed the point.
  • Kinneas12, on 11/15/2009, -4/+7Obesity is a bad thing. People who want to just say that it's who they are or it's in their genes are just making poor excuses.

    Yes, maybe you're genetically predisposed to becoming fat. That's not your fault, but it's your responsibility to work extra hard at preventing.
  • Idiggapony, on 11/15/2009, -4/+7Gosh, TheGrandCanyon, you really are just a raging inferno of hostility, aren't you?

    All of us non-perfect folks out here join together in wishing you a big hearty "***** you."
  • guyincognitoo, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3No one knows why people get MS or even what causes it, so this may be another clue.
  • pinchduck, on 11/15/2009, -0/+3Thank you for that cogent response. I was wondering exactly the same thing.
  • evileddy60, on 11/15/2009, -0/+3Teenage obesity linked to teens eating too much crappy food and not moving around.

  • geenope, on 11/15/2009, -2/+4you don't say
  • laurenkim6, on 11/15/2009, -2/+4let me guess... you're fat?
  • Hrodrik, on 11/15/2009, -0/+1Especially because it's like saying "***** stinks!".
  • fragMasterFlash, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1When are these unmotivated teens going to get off their fat, lazy asses and score some decent ADD medication?
  • Idiggapony, on 11/15/2009, -1/+2I guess this is a new meme. I'm not really enjoying it very much.
  • iheartbakon, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Yup!
  • notaku, on 11/15/2009, -2/+3Burried for my wife having MS.
  • laurenkim6, on 11/15/2009, -0/+1you beat me to it
  • Idiggapony, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Well, no, but I'm not perfect. And I don't think I deserve to get MS because of that.
  • Nudar, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Another reason for the obese to pay higher health insurance premiums.
  • libbb, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Exact thoughts here. I wish I could get paid to come up with these endless "no *****?" studies and articles.
  • libbb, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Milk isn't even all that healthy..
  • inactive, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1I just fear this is going to bridge the gap to where the government can start mandating what type of foods we eat. Especially if the government passes health care reform, more people will be using tax money for health care treatment so the government will say it needs to regulate what they eat and their level of activity as to not increase costs.
  • scboi, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1It's still mainly caused by unmyelinated axons.
  • homer524, on 11/15/2009, -1/+1So.... fatties use windows?
  • candorny, on 11/15/2009, -0/+0IT is not a small number of folks that get it. MOST people know that. It is just that a lot of people (in all classes) do not take hte time to do something about it.
  • merlin99, on 11/17/2009, -1/+1I've got an idea for a scientific test. If you wake up one day and only a crane will do to get you out of bed, stop eating.
  • tokomini, on 11/16/2009, -1/+1All I can think of when MS is mentioned is The West Wing and President Bartlett. If I'm the only one, please bury.
  • Wilddigi, on 11/15/2009, -1/+1Who does all these research? Most of them just *****
  • Idiggapony, on 11/16/2009, -1/+1Well, all these research was most of them done by a large team of clinicians, epidemiologists, and statisticians at various institutions affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, organized by the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital. They funded by National Institutes of Health grants, and also private donations. Enrolled hundreds of thousands of women, and is one of the largest and most comprehensive prospective epidemiological studies ever attempted, yielding over 100 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals!

    http://www.channing.harvard.edu/nhs/index.php/hist ...

    But yeah, most of them just *****.
  • Jinkley, on 11/15/2009, -2/+1Look at this guy. He's got a Monkey Scrotum and he's BRAGGING about it.
  • AdamWest2122, on 11/15/2009, -2/+1Cue the comments about fatties having yet another excuse not to exercise without actually RTFA...
  • Kinneas12, on 11/15/2009, -8/+2I love how these stories are written like some discovery, yet the findings are pretty intuitive to begin with.

    This just in: being a rapist makes you more likely to end up in prison one day. News alert: we now have learned that being an axe murderer will make you more likely to end up in prison one day. News flash: studies have found that being an arsonist will significantly increase your chances of ending up in prison one day.
  • geckron2, on 11/15/2009, -9/+1Nickelback sucks!
  • inactive, on 11/15/2009, -23/+9Tough *****. Fat people know that being fat isn't healthy so they should get up off their couches, stop watching America's Got Talent, stop eating Twinkies and do something with their ***** lives.

    Let them have MS I really don't care.

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