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Jun 23

One more reason to lose weight – KOMO News

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There are lots of reasons to lose weight. It helps lower blood pressure and reduces the risk of heart attack, diabetes, dementia and cancer.

Here's another one: It can help people with psoriasis.

The skin disease has long been associated with obesity. Weight gain tends to make it worse.

A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition last year confirms that losing weight may help reduce the symptoms of psoriasis.

"Psoriasis and obesity are both accompanied by low-grade systemic inflammation. This is the chronic inflammation that we're starting to hear more and more about in research and that's being tied to all kinds of health conditions, said Jamie Kopf, a senior editor for the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter.

"The theory is that pro-inflammatory effects that are related to being obese might worsen the severity of psoriases and that could account for why people who have psoriasis tend to get worse symptoms if they gain weight or if they are obese, Kopf explained.

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