Who Is at Risk for Overweight and Obesity? - NHLBI, NIH

• In women, overweight and obesity are highest among non-Hispanic Black women (about 82 percent), compared with about 76 percent for Hispanic women and 64 percent for non-Hispanic White women.
• In men, overweight and obesity are highest among Hispanic men (about 82 percent), compared with about 74 percent for non-Hispanic White men and about 70 percent for non-Hispanic Black men.

Who Is at Risk for Overweight and Obesity? - NHLBI, NIH

What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Overweight and Obesity? - NHLBI, NIH

• Clothes feeling tight and needing a larger size.
• The scale showing that you've gained weight.
• Having extra fat around the waist.
• A higher than normal body mass index and waist circumference. (For more information, go to "How Are Overweight and Obesity Diagnosed?")

What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Overweight and Obesity? - NHLBI, NIH

Are chromium supplements helpful in lowering blood sugar levels?

"chromium supplements are not effective at lowering fasting blood sugar in healthy individuals, or diabetics."

Are chromium supplements helpful in lowering blood sugar levels?

Green is good

Fried green tomatoes anyone?  Okay, well not fried, the tomatidine found in green tomatoes may be come a superfood for genetically engineered foods...

Green is good

Leisure-time physical activity from mid- to late life, body mass index, and risk of dementia

" physically active, or becoming more active, after midlife may also contribute to lowering dementia risk, especially in people who are overweight or obese at midlife."

Leisure-time physical activity from mid- to late life, body mass index, and risk of dementia

Patients Can Now Choose Not to Know Their Own DNA Secrets - Scientific American

How about addressing the obvious--Obesity, poor nutrition, lack of exercise--Exposing "genetic clues" might offer an incorrect cause for a preventable excuse?

"When doctors test for one reason, clues to an entirely different disease may emerge. Sometimes those genetic clues provide an early warning that will save a life, but they can also be wrong, leading to unnecessary stress and risky treatments."

Patients Can Now Choose Not to Know Their Own DNA Secrets - Scientific American

Out of Sync | The Scientist Magazine®

" it’s not just disrupted sleep that can lead to these myriad physiological symptoms; it’s also the altered patterns of food consumption that go along with keeping such strange hours."

"But humans, particularly those in developed countries with abundant artificial light, late-night TV, and 24-hour diners, have been putting themselves through an inadvertent experiment over the last few decades. No longer does daylight dictate the times when we eat. “That is the cycle that has gone wrong in the last 50 years,” says Panda.

With caution and caveats, one could speculate that this is, in part, why obesity and metabolic disorders have escalated to epidemic levels, particularly when mistimed eating is coupled with a high-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. It stands to reason that our metabolic functions, as controlled by the circadian clock, evolved to cycle in harmony with the Earth’s daily rhythms, to optimize processes such as energy use and storage. In doing so, we became adapted to eat during the daytime, and maladapted for eating at night. Opposing these rhythms, as many of us now do, may challenge our bodies’ normal cycles and set us up for disease. “Like many evolutionary arguments, it’s hard to prove,” says Lazar. “But otherwise it’s hard to imagine why else we would need things so tightly linked to the Earth’s rotation.”

Out of Sync | The Scientist Magazine®