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Want to fix obesity and climate change at the same time? Make Big Food companies pay.
A new report says food companies are pursuing profit at the expense of public and environmental health. That has to change. Obesity, climate change, and malnutrition are among the greatest global crises facing our world today. Wouldn’t it be great if there were solutions to tackle all three problems at once? That might sound far-fetched. But a new report, published Sunday in the Lancet, implores us to think about the possibility of big, systemic fixes for these interrelated scourges.
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Genetic Basis of Obesity Carries Weight
There are, undoubtedly, many factors that go into a person’s weight. A new report from the lab of Sekar Kathiresan, M.D., director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, documents a clear biologic basis for the predisposition of obesity. More specifically, that genetics play a role in how heavy a person gets.
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Children in U.S. don't drink enough water, opt for sugary juice instead
On any given day, 1 in 5 American youngsters don't drink any water at all, a new survey shows -- and those who don't end up consuming almost twice as many calories from sugar-sweetened beverages.
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Obesity poised to overtake smoking as leading preventable cause of cancer
You probably don't know second leading cause of cancer, because the scientists have only recently made the connection. It's obesity.
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Stop Celebrating Obesity: Fat Acceptance Does More Harm Than Good
Growing up, I was never happy with my body. While I can look back and say I was a completely normal, healthy girl; young peers are unforgiving, and the social stigma of poverty conspired with my rapidly developing body to make me a perfect target for cruel bullying. I remember starting my first diet when I was 12.
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Obesity rising faster in rural areas than cities
Obesity is increasing more rapidly in the world’s rural areas than in cities, according to a new study of global trends in body-mass index (BMI). The research, led by Imperial College London and published in Nature, analysed the height and weight data of more than 112 million adults across urban and rural areas of 200 countries and territories between 1985 and 2017.
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Dietary fat is not a major determinant of body fat.
The percentage of energy from fat in diets has been thought to be an important determinant of body fat, and several mechanisms have been proposed. Comparisons of diets and the prevalence of obesity between affluent and poor countries have been used to support this relationship, but these contrasts are seriously confounded by differences in physical activity and food availability.
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Obesity set to cause 100 cancers a day by end of next decade, NHS warns
The UK’s obesity crisis is set to trigger a massive rise in weight related cancers with 360,000 people expected to be diagnosed with the disease by 2030, the head of the NHS in England has said. Drastic action is needed now if the UK, already the most obese nation in western Europe, is to avoid a weight-related crisis on the scale as is being experienced in the US, Simon Stevens, said.
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Lifelong obesity linked to physical difficulties aged 50
People who are obese from childhood through to middle age are more than twice as likely to have difficulty with daily tasks such as lifting, climbing stairs and carrying shopping by the time they are 50, a new UCL study has found.
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New research uncovers compelling link between gut bacteria, obesity and the immune system
An impressive new study from scientists at the University of Utah has described how an impaired immune system can alter the composition of the gut microbiome resulting in metabolic disease and obesity. Demonstrated in mouse experiments, the research suggests certain species of gut bacteria can prevent the gut from absorbing fat, pointing to exciting potential future anti-obesity therapies.
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Could gene therapy be the solution to obesity and diabetes?
Researchers in South Korea the gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 to inhibit the gene FABP4 in white adipose tissue. When they tried it in mice, the animals lost 20% of their body weight and showed reductions in inflammation and insulin resistance.
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A New Theory of Obesity
Nutrition researcher Kevin Hall strives to project a Zen-like state of equanimity. In his often contentious field, he says he is more bemused than frustrated by the tendency of other scientists to “cling to pet theories despite overwhelming evidence that they are mistaken.” Some of these experts, he tells me with a sly smile, “have a fascinating ability to rationalize away studies that don’t support their views.”
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Study finds Americans can't lose weight, even though they try
More and more Americans are trying to lose weight, but few are finding success, according to a new study showing that increases in weight and weight gain are matching increases in adherence to weight loss regimens.
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Exercise advice on food labels could help to tackle the obesity crisis
Labelling food and drinks with how much walking or running is needed to burn them off could help tackle the obesity crisis, researchers say. While all packaged food must display certain nutritional information, such as calorie content, there is limited evidence that the approach changes what people buy or eat. Meanwhile, waistlines continue to expand.
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Study identifies top strategies for successful weight loss maintenance
Just in time for the New Year, a new Cal Poly study shows that if you want to lose weight and keep it off, building healthy dietary, self-monitoring and psychological coping strategies may be the keys to success.
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About 40% of US adults are obese, government survey finds
About 4 in 10 American adults are obese, and nearly 1 in 10 is severely so, government researchers said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention findings come from a 2017-18 health survey that measures height and weight. More than 5,000 U.S. adults took part.
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Being overweight is associated with more frequent sexual activity in men but lower frequency in women, study finds
For men, being overweight is linked to increased odds of sexual activity. But the opposite is true for women, according to new research published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine. The study examined the relationships between body weight, physical activity, and sexual behavior.
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Removing belly fat before it sticks to you
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine are producing a fat busting protein normally maed in the liver in a laboratory. Their hope is that this protein will help advance of understanding of triglycerides. That knowledge may someday help in the development of a better treatment for heart disease, obesity and diabetes.
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Obesity Linked to Severe Coronavirus Disease, Especially for Younger Patients
Obesity may be one of the most important predictors of severe coronavirus illness, new studies say. It’s an alarming finding for the United States, which has one of the highest obesity rates in the world. Though people with obesity frequently have other medical problems, the new studies point to the condition in and of itself as the most significant risk factor, after only older age, for being hospitalized with Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. Young adults with obesity appear to be at particular risk, studies show.
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The British are fatter than the rest of Europe, says PM Johnson
The British are far fatter than any other nation in Europe bar the Maltese so there needs to be a debate about how to tackle soaring rates of obesity which cost the country dearly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday. Johnson, who said at the start of the year that he needed to lose weight, was hospitalised in April with coronavirus and treated in intensive care with oxygen. He later said doctors in the National Health Service (NHS) had saved his life.
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