Now there is another big reason to stay in shape as recent researches show that the risk of cancer increases when you are obese.

Too much body fat can easily get your system weak and lead you to the way of cancer.

This is one of the grave reasons why obesity control should be on primary focus in terms of health of a nation.

About 100,000 US cancer cases have been reported to be occurring due to obesity. Americans, if they keep getting fatter at this rate, will definitely end up getting obese.

The curse of body fat comes in many ways and excessive will definitely leads to some of the degenerative diseases like Cancer.

Treatments for cancer used until now are not suitable for directing drugs to specific area in a body. Current technique for chemotherapy involves high concentration of drugs to be sent throughout the body to destroy tumor cells.

In an effort to destroy cancerous cells using chemotherapy, healthy cells are also destroyed causing discomfort for the patients. Sometimes, destroying healthy cells leads to several side effects for the patients. Because of this reason, many cancer patients prefer to skip chemotherapy.

Now, nanoparticles were successfully tested to carry cancer drugs to specific areas. Nanoparticles are made from carefully tested biodegradable polymer.

A new study has warned obese people about the danger of taking off years from life due to obesity. The researchers said being obese could be as harmful in some cases as smoking so, this is the call of time to make conscious the people about the underlying dangers undergoing weight gain. It may be a reasonable thought to lose weight, if someone is following obesity, one of the researchers suggests.

To measure the level of obesity, the studies used (BMI)-Body Mass Index. It was found that death ratio was lowest in those who were on the high part of obesity on the normal range and had a BMI from 23 to 24.

Overweight people are generally defined as those having BMI of 25 to 29, and the level of obesity is to have above 30 BMI.

Studies have already found that, cancer rate among vegetarian people is low. Now recent studies have shown that almost all types of barriers have potential to fight against cancer. Researchers are now implicating berry use with various health benefits.

Researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center investigated the effect of black raspberries on genes mutated by carcinogen in an animal specimen of esophageal cancer.

The Chemical carcinogen affects the function of 2,200 genes in esophagus of animals, within a week, but with the use of the black raspberry powder, 460 of those affected genes were repaired.

One small study, conducted on the human, was involving patient with a genetic disease known as adenomatous polyposis that elevates the risk of colon cancer. The reduction in rectal polyps was 59 percent less in the patients treated with extract of black raspberry than the patients treated with placebo. Another study suggests that black raspberry powder makes patient asymptomatic from precancerous conditions.

Berries contain a vast verity of vital compounds such as phytochemicals that work as antioxidant, anticancer, anti-neurodegenerative and anti-inflammatory. Moreover raspberries contain vitamin A, C, E, calcium, selenium and folic acid in significant amount.

The phenomena ‘whether smoking cause wrinkles’ is very old. After the vast research work, scientifically, it has been proven that smoking does cause skin wrinkles. It speeds up the natural aging process of skin that is why wrinkles start to appear at relatively younger age.

Smoking doesn’t cause acute effects on the skin but you can see a significant difference, after ten year between the skin of smokers and non smokers. Another adverse effect of smoking generated wrinkles, these are irreversible.

Smoking is the second most leading cause of wrinkles after sun exposure. It inhibits the take up of Vitamin A and C which are essential for skin protection. It occurs because the nicotine of cigarettes promotes dehydration.

Nicotine limits the blood supply to the outermost layer of the skin by narrowing it. This obstacle creates the deficiency of oxygen and outer essential nutrients such as Vitamin A. It also harms collagen and elastin fibers of skin which gives the elasticity to the skin.

Heat generated from cigarette burning cause skin irritation around the eyes and put more strains on the eyes of the smoker. This strain increases the wrinkles on face especially around the eyes. Smokers also develop hollow cheeks with the extensive smoking.

The affects of smoking on skin make doctors to believe that there is a relation between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and wrinkles in mouth. If you have spent fifteen to twenty years with smoking you may feel that in your late 30’s your skin resemble to the nonsmoker who is in 50’s.

Remember! No cream or treatment have developed, till-to-date that can remove wrinkle caused by cigarette smoking, but the situation may get better is you quit smoking. If you are not going to quit and trying to get smoother skin through, you are just wasting your time and money as no cream, moisturizer or even surgical procedure can restore your smooth skin.

If you left your habit, it also has some additional benefits such as it improve the both quality and quantity of life and also prevent the risk of lung diseases and heart related issues, cancer etc.

After quitting smoking, you should concentrate on a healthy diet and regular physical workout. This intervention will make the blood circulation fast and will replenish the skin with more nutrition and oxygen. You should also limit the use of alcohol as it dehydrates skin too. Add a good supplement of Vitamin A and C as key ingredient to your diet as this will fill up the deficiency of elastin and collagen fiber. and avoid drinking alcohol or caffeine as this also dehydrates the skin.

Obesity is considered the basic cause of various diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancer etc. For a considerable number of people it has become a real serious health issue because of higher health risks. It has been observed that obese people often have to become the victim of their fellows’ critical remarks and bullying and perhaps this is a bigger reason that most of people want to shed their extra pounds in the twinkling of an eye. They seem to look for best weight loss pills, diet programs and various exercises. They often experience that most of these weight loss pills and other programs prove good for nothing and sometimes even put them in new troubles.

Before choosing any weight loss pill or other product, people need to be a lot more attentive, as it’s a real serious issue and you shouldn’t allow others to play with your health only for minting some money.

It is stated in ScienceDaily, Dec 31 2008 issue, it is stated: ‘Indulgence in a high-fat diet can not only lead to overweight because of excessive calorie intake, but also can affect the balance of circadian rhythms – everyone’s 24-hour biological clock, Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers have shown’.

At Hebrew University’s Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment in Rehovot, Dr. Oren Froy and his colleagues of the Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition have done research work using  lab mice to establish the effects of diet on circadian. Circadian- every one’s biological clock is responsible to control body metabolism and functions of enzymes and hormones.

To become a vegetarian is, indeed, a life changing decision, as it’s not just a matter of deciding which dress you will wear today. It’s a decision that has immediate as well as long term effects in your lifestyle. Do you like to make other changing decisions in your life without serious consideration?

If you don’t eat meat, it’s good for you but if you, there is nothing wrong with it. However, the thing you must keep in mind that excess of any thing is bad and if you make meat your only diet and don’t include vegetables or fruits in your daily diet, you may put your health in a serious threat. A good diet is one that is balance and has all the ingredients in a right proportion. So far advantages and disadvantages of being a vegetarian are concerned; let’s talk about the advantages first.

Nicotine use will develop a tolerance in the body. So the addict needs more and more drugs to get the same effect. There comes smoking addiction which is extremely difficult to quit. Anyway if you quit from smoking addiction, your body undergoes the health problems like headache, hunger, depression etc. It is known as “withdrawal symptoms”. This is because of withdrawal of nicotine from the body.

Smokeless tobacco:

Harmful effects are produced in taking smokeless tobacco. Chewing tobacco will damage the gum tissue. The taste and smell sensitivity is reduced. They contain chemicals which cause cancer. The cancer may be in the mouth, larynx, esophagus etc.

According to a new study, excessive consumption of meat and dairy products may increase the risk of developing prostrate cancer.

The researchers from University of Oxford say that these foods increase the levels of a hormone known as Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) and it helps to promote cell growth.

In their study, the researchers looked at the results of 12 different studies which comprised around 9,000 men.

The researchers noted that those men who had high blood levels of iGF-1 were 40% more likely to have the disease than the men who had low levels of the hormone.

The study will be published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.