Tuesday, 13 March 2012

March 13, 2012 Clippings


Women gain weight after marriage

A study reveals that beginning and ending your marriage can take a toll on your increasing waistline. Let's research a bit about the growing trend...

It 's a fact that women tend to gain weight after marriage, but researchers have found out recently that men are more likely to put on weight after divorce.

It is believed that whenever there is a big change in your life, it affects your weight first. Also, this weight gain may pose to be a health risk as well.

Changing waistlines

Simran Kohli, 25, media professional says, "I had gained immense weight after marriage and it was not an easy task to shed the extra kilos."

Health experts say that this sudden gain in weight after a marriage or divorce may be because as people age, they become more settled in certain eating and exercising habits.

In the case of men, it is believed that they get a health boost outside marriage, perhaps because their spouses monitor their behaviour and they lose this benefit after divorce.

Rishi Mehrotra, 34, businessman, says, "I started putting on weight after my wife and I parted ways. The reason is that I started socialising more to forget about the past and ate out almost every day. This has taken a toll on my increasing waistline."

The relationship between marriage and weight are complex and contingent upon many factor.


13.03.2012

Diabetes can make women deaf

A new study has found that having diabetes may cause women to experience a greater degree of hearing loss as they age, especially if the metabolic disorder is not well controlled with medication.

According to the study from
Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, women between the ages of 60 and 75 with well-controlled diabetes had better hearing than women with poorly controlled diabetes, with similar hearing levels to those of non-diabetic women of the same age.


The study also shows significantly worse hearing in all women younger than 60 with diabetes, even if it is well controlled.


Men, however, had worse hearing loss across the board compared to women in the study, regardless of their
age or whether or not they had diabetes.


"A certain degree of hearing loss is a normal part of the
aging process for all of us, but it is often accelerated in patients with diabetes, especially if blood-glucose levels are not being controlled with medication and diet," Derek J. Handzo, D.O., with the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Henry Ford said.


"Our study really points to importance of patients controlling their diabetes, especially as they age, based on the impact it may have on hearing loss."


American Diabetes Association said that nearly 26 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, and another 34.5 million have some degree of hearing loss.


Signs of hearing loss include difficulty hearing background noises or hearing conversations in large groups, as well as regularly needing to turn up the volume on a radio or TV. The study was presented on Jan 26 in
Miami Beach at the annual Triological Society's Combined Sections Meeting.




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