Shermunda Lawrence
January 29th, 2009
7:20pm

New study has shown that obese women who lose weight reduce urine incontinence, an involuntary leakage of urine. The study consists of 338 obese women who leak urine ten times per week. For six months, they were randomly assigned to be on a diet and exercise plan or be taught a plan, but had no additional information afterwards. The women on the plan lost eight percent of their body weight and the urine incontinence reduced by forty-seven percent, compared to the other group who lost 1.6% of body weight and reduced twenty-eight percent of urine incontinence. I think this is global issues and very important globally, especially in the U.S. because the percentage of obesity has risen to an all-time high. Thirty-one percent of the U.S. population are obese, which is roughly 60 million people. (http://www.annecollins.com/weight_health/obesity-rate.htm). Not only losing weight will decrease urine incontinence, but it will decrease other risks such as diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol, and heart disease. By solving this one simple issue can increase our life expectancy among other things that have dropped. So this article was not only written to inform women about the study, but to also motivate them into trying to lose weight. I think women should take this information in consideration and watch everything they do. Not only women, now I know men may be effected by this study as well by the researchers doing studies on them to better their lives.

by Mary Brophy Marcus, USA Today
http://blogs.usatoday.com/betterlife/2009/01/losing-weight-c.html