Obesity as an epidemic Obesity is considered a national epidemic.
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Among the babies of mothers in obesity class I, the rate was 3.8%; in obesity class II, 4.2%; and obesity class III, 4.7%.
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As an endocrinologist, I study obesity and treat people with obesity every day.
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"The prevalence of obesity has remained constant, but severe obesity is increasing," said Dietz.
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Childhood obesity has tripled, with obesity in teenagers quadrupling from 5 to 20 percent.
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"Surgery can reverse severe obesity and medical complications of the obesity," Inge said by email.
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Scholars who study childhood obesity disagree about whether childhood obesity has plateaued or is increasing.
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Obesity is a significant risk factor for diabetes, and childhood obesity is on the rise.
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"It's possible children with obesity have greater exposure to other people, such as family members, who have obesity; (they) may be more accepting of obesity; or healthy children may not see children with obesity as `like them,' which affects their preferences," Skinner said by email.
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Obesity Week, a major conference for obesity researchers, is being held this week in New Orleans.
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Obesity increases the risk, but sugar is an independent risk factor apart from calories or obesity.
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The researchers factored in other possible influences on obesity risk, including socioeconomic status and mothers' obesity.
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Susan Fried, a professor and director of translational adipose biology and obesity at the Diabetes Metabolism Obesity Institute, said the results are consistent with research associating high cortisol levels and obesity.
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Low-income groups already have the highest rates of obesity and, the new projections show, they are the groups most likely to experience a rising prevalence of obesity and severe obesity.
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Despite the recognition that almost no one decides to develop obesity, many blame people with obesity for their disease, and consider people with obesity as lazy, unmotivated, sloppy, gluttonous and undisciplined.
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"There's an attitude that people are at fault for their obesity, that it's failure or personal responsibility," said Joe Nadglowski of the Obesity Action Coalition, a membership organization for people with obesity.
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Other obesity-related conditions Other conditions associated with obesity also increased in claim lines among young people.
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"Childhood obesity increases the risk of adult obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease later in life," Breda said.
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Obesity. What single product, when used properly, contributes more to obesity than any other product in America?
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These foods contribute to obesity, and therefore, the resultant obesity constitutes a threat to our national security.
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Since the 1980s, the NHANES has been charting obesity rates — and extreme obesity rates — as they've soared.
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The association argues that beverages are not unique drivers of obesity rates and obesity-related diseases in the United States, as obesity rates have been rising while soda consumption rates have been declining.
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The risk of developing obesity-related cancer is increasing in successive generations, along with increasing rates of obesity.
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So targeted messages about the different ways obesity impacts one's health didn't really change how liberals viewed obesity.
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There are currently 158 million obese children around the world, according to the World Obesity Federation's first Atlas of Childhood Obesity, which calculated a risk score for obesity in the coming decade for 191 countries.
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While no country has managed to cut its obesity levels, there are some countries where obesity rates remain low.
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By reducing obesity, these transplants could also prevent metabolic diseases associated with obesity such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
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Obesity levels were higher among women than men across all age groups, which correlates with previous findings on obesity.
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Larger anti-obesity campaigns launched by government agencies have been similarly unsuccessful in reducing obesity rates across the country.
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A 2013 article in the International Journal of Obesity found lower obesity rates in those living at higher elevations.
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Continuing a month of major nutritional events, Obesity Week, the premiere conference on all aspects of obesity, starts Oct.
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A lack of understanding about obesity and obesity-related stigma may hold both doctors and patients back from considering surgery.
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Other research suggests IF can reduce the risk of obesity, and in turn all of the health risks obesity presents.
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Bessler's father had obesity, and died, at fifty-four, of colon cancer, which obesity is known to make more likely.
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Those states also tend to have lower rates of obesity, while states with lower exercise rates have higher rates of obesity.
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This week, North America's leading obesity researchers gathered in New Orleans for Obesity Week, their most important conference of the year.
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Obesity is also a risk factor for the onset of depression, while depression, in turn, contributes to the onset of obesity.
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"The obesity epidemic did not occur because we don't have enough surgery," said National Institutes of Health obesity researcher Kevin Hall.
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According to the European Association for the Study of Obesity, the adult obesity rate is among the lowest in Europe (about 10 percent of the population), but childhood overweight and obesity rates are among the highest in the world.
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"As these conditions worsen, they feed upon one another: obesity contributes to insulin resistance, which in turn worsens obesity; inflammation aggravates obesity, promoting more inflammation; insulin resistance causes more inflammation, which worsens insulin resistance," he writes in the book.
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The problem reflects the global increase in obesity and overweight rates across developing countries, surpassing the rate of obesity in developed states.
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While obesity is still rarer among children compared to adults, the rate of childhood obesity has surged much faster in many countries.
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"The obesity epidemic occurred because the food environment has changed remarkably," said obesity researcher Kevin Hall at the National Institutes of Health.
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Overall in 2011-14, there was a 17% prevalence of obesity and a 5.8% prevalence of extreme obesity among children and adolescents.
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"It's unclear if abnormalities in brain structure lead to obesity or if obesity leads to these changes in the brain," Hamer said.
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In addition, the rate of increase in childhood obesity in many countries has been greater than the equivalent figure for adult obesity.
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Yet the obesity picture is muddled because other studies have found that obesity in middle age increases dementia risk in old age.
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The Obesity E.T.F. (Ticker: SLIM) includes stocks of companies trying to address rising obesity rates, like drug companies that make diabetes drugs.
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For example, the prevalence of obesity has soared all across America since 1990, but obesity rates are significantly higher in red states.
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Although in 2013 the American Medical Association declared that obesity is a disease, obesity is still widely perceived as a personal failing.
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The brief included recommendations, from this year's State of Obesity report, for preventing obesity and promoting a healthy weight among children nationwide.
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"It is alarming that obesity could soon become the biggest preventable cause of cancer in women, but sadly not surprising," said Caroline Cerny of the Obesity Health Alliance, a coalition of over 40 organizations and charities working to reduce obesity.
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Other obesity experts agree that the improvement in heart health may be the most critical factor in the treatment of obesity with drugs.
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Obesity experts are getting behind the idea that obesity isn't one disease, but many different subtypes under one umbrella, kind of like cancer.
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TED MONIAKSt Louis, Missouri * Your map of obesity ("Mapping obesity", December 19th) shows a great irony in our financial access to healthy food.
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People with obesity were also most likely to have prediabetes: 26% of teens and 37% of young adults with obesity had this condition.
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He is also a member of The Obesity Society which curates Obesity Week along with the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
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Congress can start by passing the bipartisan 2019 Treat and Reduce Obesity Act, which will expand evidenced-based obesity coverage for Medicare beneficiaries.
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But preventing obesity in the future doesn't account for how to help young people like Jewel, who are suffering from severe obesity right now.
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"Kids with more severe forms of obesity are first developing obesity at younger ages and it gets worse and worse over time," said Skinner.
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There's a surprisingly big disconnect between how obesity researchers think about the causes of and treatments for obesity and how the American public does.
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The incidence of obesity, especially extreme obesity, was much lower among active people than the sedentary, whether their activity was aerobic or resistance-oriented.
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A wake-up call on obesity What this research shows, Berger said, is an association between cancer and obesity in younger and younger ages.
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They also have lower rates of obesity-related diseases, such as diabetes and cancer, compared to people with obesity who don't get the surgery.
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"Spoons are used to eat stuff to kill yourself with obesity, but we're not picking up spoons to get rid of obesity," Baxley added.
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But the impact of obesity on cancer risk is pretty hard to untangle from other behaviors or attributes of people with obesity, like diet.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Obesity worldwide is escalating and without urgent action to prevent and treat it, the annual medical bill for dealing with its consequences could reach $1.2 trillion by 2025, the World Obesity Federation said ahead of World Obesity Day on Wednesday.
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In December, Lee Kaplan, director of the obesity, metabolism, and nutrition institute at Massachusetts General Hospital told the New York Times that there are at least 59 distinct kinds of obesity, including at least 25 genes which seem to be directly related to obesity risk.
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County obesity rates ranged from 21 to 38 percent, and each 1 percentage point increase in obesity was associated with a 5 percent higher rate of obesity in military parents and a 4 percent higher rate in their 12- or 13-year-old child.
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With black participants, 45 percent had abdominal obesity and about 7 percent of these people had elevated albumin, compared to 5 percent without abdominal obesity.
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"Patients with severe obesity will experience that stigma inside and outside the health care system," said Dr. Scott Kahan, an obesity specialist at Georgetown University.
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The costs of obesity treatment and the low likelihood of success without surgery suggest that obesity prevention should be a major topic of political discussion.
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Dr. Louis J. Aronne, an obesity specialist at Weill Cornell Medicine, helped found the American Board of Obesity Medicine to address this sort of issue.
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Battling obesity The UK has been battling the rising tide of childhood obesity, with almost a third of children aged 12-15 overweight or obese.
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It seems it's just as difficult for some folks to talk about obesity in cats as it is to talk about, well, obesity in general.
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Except for studies funded by the beverage industry, the evidence overwhelmingly shows a strong association between sugar-sweetened beverages and obesity and obesity-related diabetes.
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Perhaps just as terrifying from both a health and an economic perspective is a predicted continued rise in obesity, including severe obesity, among American adults.
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There is a considerable genetic component to obesity (estimates range from 30% to 70%), and dozens of genetic variants have been associated with obesity and metabolism.
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With a 26.5 percent adult obesity rate, obesity is the second cause of death in Argentina today, right after cigarettes, according to the World Health Organization.
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But instead of the prevalence of obesity leading to greater acceptance, the opposite is true: As obesity rates rise, research shows that discrimination has gotten worse.
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Prevalence of obesity was 22001 percent among men and 22016 percent among women, including severe obesity of 223.6 percent for men and 220.4 percent for women.
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Last fall, I was with Foster, Weight Watchers' chief science officer, as he walked the halls of Obesity Week, the annual conference of the Obesity Society.
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"Everyone (says) 'Oh obesity, obesity, we have to do something about the obesity epidemic,' and so it's like throwing spaghetti at a wall without any evidence behind it and then you see that these programs are actually backfiring," said Mysko, with the National Eating Disorders Association.
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In reality, these changes threaten to reverse the plateau in childhood obesity that we have achieved over the last 15 years, exacerbating the increasing prevalence of adult obesity in America, increase obesity-related health care costs beyond the current $300 billion per year and worsening school performance.
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Childhood obesity has reached such a catastrophic level that reports have suggested that Hispanic children in Los Angeles, suffering from chronic obesity, may not outlive their parents.
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Data pooled from 49 studies that examined the impact of obesity treatment programs on self-esteem showed the improvements were lasting, Gow's team reports in Pediatric Obesity.
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The Health Issue A mutation in some obesity-prone dog breeds might reveal new risk factors for obesity in humans — and perhaps give rise to new drugs.
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Our study presents new evidence that obesity and type 2 diabetes, as well as other obesity-related conditions, are rising among young people in the United States.
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A growing number of places have recently reported declines in childhood obesity rates, including 22019 states reporting declining obesity rates among young children from low-income families.
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The just-released 2017 State of Obesity report found that adult obesity rates declined in only one state in 2016, after declining in four states in 2015.
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Health care experts chimed in, saying the predicted rise in obesity would create untold strain on health care spending through the rise of obesity-related health consequences.
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While plenty of previous research has linked inadequate sleep to obesity in both children and adults, less is known about toddlers and young children with a high risk of obesity because of their own birth weight or parents' weight and income, researchers note in the International Journal of Obesity.
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In Egypt's class-segregated society, love of fast food transcends class boundaries, as does an obesity epidemic: Egypt has the highest rate of adult obesity in the world.
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We need a treatment that doesn't require a major operation, that can reliably get people with obesity and severe obesity back to a healthy weight they can maintain.
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While the condition has long been linked to obesity, which can put extra pressure on bones, research to date hasn't offered decisive evidence that obesity directly causes SCFE.
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The value of obesity Societal perceptions of being overweight or obese are also key in determining how effectively an obesity epidemic may surge and in turn be controlled.
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The global obesity picture The researchers analyzed data from 68.5 million people between 1980 and 2015 to explore trends as well as figures regarding overweight and obesity rates.
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The study's findings, to be published on Monday in the journal Obesity, are part of a scientific push to answer some of the most fundamental questions about obesity.
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In adult women, the highest rates of obesity are among African-American women, meaning many of the racial and ethnic disparities in childhood obesity carry on into adulthood.
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" That's because "Childhood obesity is a strong predictor of adult obesity, which has well-known health and economic consequences, both for individuals and for society as a whole.
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Dr. William Dietz, director of the Stop Obesity Alliance at George Washington University, said that it is premature to reach any conclusions about the trend in childhood obesity.
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In both rural and urban settings, rates of adult obesity, and especially severe obesity, increased significantly from 2001 to 2016, but that trend was not apparent in children.
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Then, to assess participants' genetic risk for obesity, the study team focused on 210 small variations in DNA that are associated with obesity in people of European descent.
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As childhood obesity is closely associated with obesity in adulthood, it would place a huge burden on health systems given the link with chronic diseases like diabetes, he warned.
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"A major finding that surprised us was this difference between obesity and severe obesity," said Cynthia Ogden of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Hyattsville, Maryland.
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Differences in education levels, smoking status, age, and racial demographics in rural versus urban communities didn't appear to explain the different rates of obesity and severe obesity among adults.
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A connection between obesity and the types of bacteria living in someone's gut is well established, and thus seems the likely explanation for the link between Caesareans and obesity.
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"Teens who are already struggling with obesity should focus on using diet and activity to maintain weight and prevent the severity of obesity from worsening," she said by email.
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SCIENCE TIMES The Personal Health column on Tuesday about childhood obesity misstated the results of a study of more than 2556,27652 people in Copenhagen investigating obesity and cancer risk.
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"They say it correctly in the summary, that obesity is associated with breast cancer, but more specifically, obesity around the abdomen is more specific for that association," she said.
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"[Surgery] is an incredibly valuable tool right now for treating adults with [severe] obesity," Hall added, "but we're not going to cut our way out of the obesity epidemic."
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The study said that efforts to prevent obesity should pay more attention to sleep as it appears to be involved in a family's vulnerability to the development of obesity.
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Her group is now looking at additional obesity-prone breeds that don't have the POMC mutation she found in Labradors but perhaps have other genetic variants that influence obesity.
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Even though obesity rates are rising, the magnitude of change during the study period was small and obesity is a weak risk factor for stroke, Burke said by email.
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Yet, as with climate change, the powers that be in this country are doing very little to head off the potentially disastrous results of expanding obesity, obesity specialists say.
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In the early 220s, obesity was a growing epidemic in the US. Adult obesity had nearly doubled since 1980, and children with an unhealthy bodyweight had more than tripled.
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According to their paper, physical activity levels began to decline before the global obesity rate started to surge — which means changes to the food environment are the prime obesity culprit.
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The latest data come from the WHO Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative, which has tracked obesity and overweight prevalence among European children ages 6 to 9 for the past 10 years.
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So, for the new study, which was published this month in Obesity, researchers in Australia decided to compare exercise habits and obesity numbers in an enormous group of American adults.
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If obesity is many diseases, said Dr. Lee Kaplan, director of the obesity, metabolism and nutrition institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, there can be many paths to the same outcome.
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Obesity doctors now consider bariatric surgery to be the most effective and durable treatment for obesity, a disease that's erupted into a full-blown epidemic in America since the 1970s.
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Amid the media hysteria surrounding the global obesity epidemic, few retailers dared wade into this cultural maelstrom, lest they be accused of glamorizing obesity by armchair "experts" and internet trolls.
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"This study is an important wake-up call for countries where childhood obesity if increasing rapidly, especially in parts of Asia where the economy is still developing quickly and the prevalence of childhood obesity is rising," said Hu whose own work has explored the rise in obesity rates in China and India.
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One way to show how powerful genetic essentialism is is doing experiments where they have people read about the causes of obesity: Some people will read an article that's talking about environmental influence on obesity—what happens if people exercise and diet and so on and how that can affect obesity rates.
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A huge majority of the mortality that we have in the US is directly linked to obesity, either from complications of obesity itself, or from associated complications—cardiovascular disease, cancer, etc.
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Most regimented weight loss plans focus on the obesity itself, which creates a negative feedback loop; the last thing an obese person wants to think about is his or her obesity.
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Fox said it has been difficult for obesity experts to gain acceptance for the idea that obesity is a disease and deserves to be treated as a disease on its own.
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So far, despite some minor successes in preventing child obesity among the very young, there's no indication that we're getting any better at tackling the obesity crisis as a whole.[CDC]
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"The number of cancers that are linked to obesity has increased a lot, which means a much higher proportion of cancer that occurs today is due to obesity," Lauby-Secretan said.
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According to government body Public Health England, obesity reduces life expectancy by an average of three years, or eight to ten years in the case of severe obesity (BMI over 40).
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But in the United States, obesity rates among dogs are swelling: Roughly half are either overweight or obese, according to research published this year from the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention.
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Kids who develop obesity at an early age are more at risk of developing severe obesity over time, gaining weight as they grown into teenagers, study co-author Asheley Skinner says.
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Someone with moderate obesity, defined as a BMI between 35 to 39.9, who also has a serious obesity-related condition, such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, or obstructive sleep apnea.
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South Africa, Egypt and Mexico which had "very low levels of obesity four decades ago" now have among the high rates of obesity in girls, between 20-25 percent, Ezzati said.
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Childhood obesity — which releases estrogen — might also be contributing.
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Obesity up among women Relying on data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which cuts out the possibility of people self-reporting and lying about their weights or heights, scientists monitor obesity trends because of the real health consequences associated with obesity, explained Cynthia Ogden, one of the authors of the two studies.
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The study offers less information on the potential effects of paternal obesity on child development, but the authors cite previous research hypothesizing that obesity could affect the expression of genes in sperm.
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Severe obesity rates were higher in rural areas for youth as well as for men and women, while overall rates of obesity were higher only for rural women, researchers report in JAMA.
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Although the benefits of not smoking are calculated to offset damage from the increased risk of obesity, the obesity tide is eroding some of the gains in life expectancy from reduced smoking.
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"Physical inactivity is a serious global health problem and its associations with obesity or obesity-related diseases are well documented," said lead author Cindy Sit of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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"In this study, as well as previous studies, obesity may be linked to systemic inflammation that can worsen asthma as well as other obesity related conditions such a sleep apnea," he said.
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In fact, a recent cost/benefit analysis by experts in obesity epidemiology projected that provision of healthy school meals would prevent over 1.8 million cases of childhood obesity over the next decade.
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A study published earlier this month in the International Journal of Obesity has found that our common wisdom about the relationship between obesity and the risk for cardiovascular disease is possibly overstated.
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In the monogenic obesity syndromes, not only does the genetic defect result in obesity but it also causes additional abnormal features, including mental disability, characteristic facial features, kidney disease and heart malformation.
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I hope that this bravery will continue to form a part of this Government's attitude to dealing with obesity and will influence the Prime Minister's Childhood Obesity strategy later in the year.
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Obesity This global epidemic doesn't get as much coverage as the other three issues, and therefore there is less visibility on the effects obesity is having on culture, governments and the economy.
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In the US, obesity and its related diseases are responsible for about 400,000 deaths per year, about the same as smoking -- but while smoking rates are decreasing, obesity is on the rise.
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The bipartisan Treat and Reduce Obesity Act (introduced in 2013) would improve insurance coverage for obesity at an estimated Medicare cost saving of $19 bill to $21 billion over the next decade.
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Science tells us that obesity and obesity-related conditions such as diabetes have multiple risk factors that include genetics, a lack of physical activity and the overconsumption of calories from any source.
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Prevalence of Self-Reported Obesity Among Non-Hispanic Black Adults (2013-2015) Prevalence of Self-Reported Obesity Among Hispanic Adults (2013-2015) Prevalence of Self-Reported Obesity Among Non-Hispanic White Adults (2013-2015) Dr. Pan said a wide range of factors could account for the demographic differences, such as socioeconomic status, cultural norms and access to grocery stores.
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Indeed, as revealed in a new white paper from FAIR Health, Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes as Documented in Private Claims Data: Spotlight on This Growing Issue among the Nation's Youth, over the years from 2011 to 2015 obesity became a more serious problem for the nation's young people, as did type 85003 diabetes, to which obesity contributes.
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Individual tests also seemed to sometimes contradict themselves, as did the test that informed me I was both not at risk for obesity (hooray!) and prone to obesity (damn) based on different genes.
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The study is the largest systematic analysis of obesity data ever done, with researchers combing the medical literature and crunching thousands of data sets on obesity in adults and children covering 20133 countries.
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American adults and children are now the heaviest in the OECD, and while the rate of obesity in youth has stagnated in recent years, 17 percent of children and adolescents struggle with obesity.
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Doctors, he said, learn nothing about obesity in medical school, which might be why only 12 percent of those in the survey with severe obesity said a doctor had suggested surgery to them.
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"Obesity is a giant epidemic that plays a part into back pain," Yao said, explaining that a loss of core strength due to obesity can put someone at increased risk for back pain.
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To stave off obesity, we might want to both stride and lift, according to an important, large-scale new study of how different types of exercise affect the incidence of obesity in America.
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And almost none examined the potential role of weight training in obesity prevention, leaving many questions unexplored about just how much and what kinds of exercise might correlate with the likelihood of obesity.
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Heart disease, stroke, type 2202 diabetes, and some cancers are related to obesity, according to the CDC, which pegs the estimated annual medical costs associated with obesity at $2628 billion in 28500 dollars.
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But factors related to obesity probably aren't the only ones.
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Worldwide obesity has almost tripled since 1975, the organization says.
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Hawaii residents report low obesity rates and little daily stress.
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And right there, friends, is where the obesity epidemic began.
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It's a concern given problems with obesity and tooth decay.
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It may sound silly, but pet obesity is serious business.
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Since 1980, obesity has doubled in more than 70 countries.
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There's no one gene for schizophrenia, for obesity, for depression.
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Sugar is being blamed for the obesity and diabetes epidemics.
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But is it enough to combat the growing obesity crisis?
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Currently, Saudi women face higher levels of obesity than men.
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This is largely because of health problems related to obesity.
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Morbid obesity, for instance, is also among those common conditions.
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Researchers no longer think of obesity as a personal failing.
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He's especially concerned about lowering the levels of childhood obesity.
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Could these myths be keeping us from treating obesity effectively?
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In 1984, Felitti was conducting an obesity study at Kaiser.
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It may be related to genetics, obesity and some medications.
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Weight gain can lead to obesity and type 2 diabetes.
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"Other risk factors include older age and obesity," Brown added.
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This recent study strengthens the argument against the obesity penalty.
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And inflammation, Dr. Scherer adds, is a hallmark of obesity.
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Only seven states have a higher prevalence of adolescent obesity.
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This is the second of two columns on childhood obesity.
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Obesity, which can cause liver disease, works the same way.
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Obesity is a clear example of food linked to both.
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The study revealed that misconceptions about obesity treatment are pervasive.
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They have been linked to obesity, diabetes and tooth decay.
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If only it were only so simple, obesity experts say.
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Studies have shown that many insurers exclude treatments for obesity.
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It also considered obesity rates, income inequality and incarceration rates.
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The study was published on Tuesday in the journal Obesity.
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Obesity has at least doubled in 73 countries since 1980.
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Dietary caution against obesity from the very beginning is appropriate.
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Abdominal obesity, that's the machinery for inflammation for the heart.
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Experts fear the move will drive up diabetes and obesity.
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Obesity is almost certainly gonna be a mixture of phenomena.
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There's practically no obesity and very little poverty in Denmark.
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Some people complained Ms. Deydier was trying to normalize obesity.
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He had the familiar set of problems — obesity, diabetes, hypertension.
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Obesity is one of the world's most pressing health concerns.
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All are linked to obesity and lack of physical activity.
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It's like solving the obesity problem by loosening your belt.
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Creating and studying large obesity interventions is hard and expensive.
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Childhood obesity rates have stabilized nationwide over the past decade.
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Obesity is often complicated by diabetes and other health issues.
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Smoking, alcohol consumption and obesity likely all play a role.
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These are the health issues unrelated to obesity, of course.
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"This should be a red flag for fighting adolescent obesity."
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From chronic stress to obesity, to alcoholism, drug use, etc.
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Another instructor credits his method for liberating him from obesity.
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MYTH: Kids need to diet to curb the obesity epidemic.
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The current study also links obesity to a shorter life.
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Risk factors for sleep apnea include older age and obesity.
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The rise in diabetes and obesity is also a trigger.
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For obesity experts, bariatric surgery is at best a compromise.
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Tooth decay can contribute to obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
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It's been linked to depression, obesity and other physical conditions.
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So are its rates of domestic violence and childhood obesity.
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They include things like obesity or a history of diabetes.
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Fast fashion is like the sugar addiction that causes obesity.
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While it looks like the growing rates of obesity are driving up obesity-associated cancers, this study can't prove that, said Dr. Daniel Labow, chair of surgical oncology at the Mount Sinai Health System.
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"Metabolic disease associated with obesity increases the risk of lung disease, perhaps particularly lung disease related to poor air quality," said Dixon, who has researched the links between metabolic dysfunction, obesity and asthma severity.
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"This suggests that discovering the genetic basis of the remaining obesity syndromes will yield huge advances in our understanding of obesity, which could lead to new opportunities for its treatment and prevention," said Brunham.
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"It's a common characteristic of the way we observe obesity levels throughout the country," said John Auerbach, CEO of Trust for America's Health, a nonprofit that issues an annual state-by-state obesity report.
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Primary care physicians often speak with patients who have obesity and tell them to eat less and exercise more, then that fails, said Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity specialist, expert and Harvard University instructor.
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It is also possible that stress over the past few months may also be due to medical conditions caused by obesity, for example it may be difficult and painful for people with obesity to walk.
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The maps here visualize the steady rise in the prevalence of adult obesity by turning from green, used to indicate obesity rates of less than 20 percent, to purple, for rates higher than 20 percent.
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It's not that diet and exercise are useless, noted Penny Gordon-Larsen, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina and the president of the Obesity Society, which studies obesity and its treatment.
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The global cost of treating health issues linked to obesity — including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and some forms of cancer — would surpass $1.2 trillion every year from 2025, the World Obesity Federation warned Tuesday.
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"The prevalence of childhood obesity continues to rise globally," wrote Differding and Mueller, adding that it is "more important than ever" to identify obesity risk factors and ways to prevent high weight gains in children.
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What's missing from the equation of childhood obesity is parental responsibility.
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Instead, obesity is prevalent and evenly spread among all social classes.
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In midlife, those factors include hypertension, obesity, and surprisingly, hearing loss.
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"Diabetes follows obesity as a night follows a day," says Zhang.
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Of course, unhealthy eating has a lot to do with obesity.
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Obesity puts people at risk of diabetes, heart disease, even cancer.
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In other words, foods that only increase the risk of obesity.
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And yet we still have an obesity issue in the world.
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I also spoke to nine leading exercise, nutrition, and obesity researchers.
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Obesity raises the risk of esophageal, colon, pancreatic and other cancers.
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"Obesity does take away from our quality of life," he said.
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Alabama also has relatively high rates of obesity and premature death.
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They say I glorify obesity when I actually glorify self-love.
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We're willing to work with companies that contribute to obesity rates.
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The research was published in the journal Obesity Review on Tuesday.
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Obesity does not just hurt those who carry the extra pounds.
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Obesity leads to sickness—rates of diabetes are rising, for example.
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Alas, its obesity rate went from near zero to over 10%.
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Tess Holliday isn't "recruiting" anyone for some sort of obesity movement.
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Over time, obesity can damage every major system in the body.
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None of them believed surgery would stop the spread of obesity.
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Canada, where 26 percent of adults have obesity, has taken notice.
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I think we would curb the epidemics [of obesity and diabetes].
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For children ages 2 to 5, obesity prevalence was about 9%.
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A nightmare of obesity, a nightmare of cardiovascular disease, of diabetes.
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Novo launched its first obesity drug in 2015, marketed as Saxenda.
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Research has linked it to heart disease, obesity, diabetes, even cancer.
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It contributes to obesity and diseases like heart disease and cancer.
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A small cottage industry has developed to address the obesity epidemic.
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Previous studies in women have linked obesity to difficulties getting pregnant.
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People with obesity and those who smoked did not show improvement.
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Our theories of nutrition have resulted in a pandemic of obesity.
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Mr Stevens has described obesity, for example, as "the new smoking".
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And ever-rising obesity rates are the predictable and obvious result.
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The United States, Germany and 12 other countries have significant obesity.
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But our culture's view of obesity as uniquely deadly is mistaken.
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Youth obesity rates seem to be more stable in recent years.
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This is where the obesity penalty really fails the reality test.
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Risk factors for preeclampsia include race, low socioeconomic status and obesity.
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Obesity is more likely to cause heart deaths than cancer deaths.
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For too many patients with obesity, there is no Dr. Parks.
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Timur began to suffer from obesity due to the beneficial relationship.
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The epidemic of obesity is rising in children and rising fast.
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This paper opens the conversation on obesity as an unsustainable condition.
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Uterine cancer is growing as a result of the obesity epidemic.
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Major risk factors include smoking, obesity, old age and family history.
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The majority of American adults are considered overweight or have obesity.
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Risk factors like obesity and diabetes usually take decades to manifest.
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There's still a lot that scientists don't know about animal obesity.
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Childhood obesity, in my opinion, is public health enemy number one.
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In 2014, the global cost of obesity was $2 trillion dollars.
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Research from the chamber won't alleviate these socioeconomic drivers of obesity.
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No calories, no artificial sweeteners, no contributions to obesity or diabetes.
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No wonder we have the highest rates of obesity in Europe.
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Depression and obesity are also being attributed to immersion in screens.
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Sleeping with the lights on may increase the risk for obesity.
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Obesity is a predictor of complications from the flu, for instance.
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Meanwhile, the authors found that obesity rates among men had plateaued.
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"I don't really know about obesity in monks," Ms. Vilawan said.
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That doesn't mean it's the answer to the obesity epidemic, however.
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But there was no association of obesity with survival in women.
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They have higher rates of obesity, physical inactivity and tobacco use.
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Obesity places an incredibly heavy burden on our health care system.
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It is a challenge to illustrate a general problem like obesity.
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This trend has raised concern about the risk factors of obesity.
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I do not recommend being a fat person at Obesity Week.
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Obesity: It's as American as a double serving of apple pie.
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Dr. Jennifer Kerns is a Biggest Loser contestant turned obesity specialist.
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Is the use of antibiotics in infancy tied to childhood obesity?
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"You shouldn't avoid antibiotics because you are concerned about childhood obesity."
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"The diabetes got better, and so did the obesity," Chopra said.
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East Harlem has the fifth-highest obesity rate in the city.
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The study casts obesity as a social, rather than individual, issue.
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The state's high rates of smoking and obesity worsen those complications.
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He directs the FIT Program at Columbia for children with obesity.
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"Fifty years ago, obesity was a relatively rare condition," Must said.
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The measure is meant to fight childhood obesity and dental disease.
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That review paper was published in the journal Obesity in October.
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This time as a treatment for obesity and type 210 diabetes.
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That was long before the childhood obesity epidemic became big news.
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That led to the experiment with a new obesity drug, fatostatin.
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We're told he had a history of heart issues and obesity.
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I wish obesity didn't really happen for young people or anybody.
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Is Kuwait on the road to facing its own obesity crisis?
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The Trump administration has said childhood obesity is not a priority.
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These products promote obesity and malnutrition — sometimes in the same people.
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And in this same time period, the obesity rate has tripled.
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Attributing obesity to the environment, rather than willpower, also predicted acceptability.
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In a report published in "The Lancet" medical journal, the Lancet Commission on Obesity – comprised of 26 researchers from 14 countries – said there had been inadequate political leadership when it came to addressing the obesity crisis.
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The news comes just before the release of the government's Childhood Obesity Strategy, where David Cameron is expected to deliver a robust, evidence-based plan for the UK to prevent childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes.
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"It's frustrating to see doctors and the general public stigmatize patients with obesity and blame these patients, ascribing attributes of laziness or lack of willpower," Dr. Donna Ryan, an obesity researcher, told The New York Times.
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The Local Government Association said in a study on obesity last year that £5 billion ($6.57 billion) is spent each year in the U.K. on health problems associated with obesity although the indirect costs are higher.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk is looking to expand its obesity business in Latin America on the back of "phenomenal" performance by its new anti-obesity injection Saxenda, a senior company official said on Monday.
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"Bold action" needed on obesity Over a quarter of the UK's population is obese, and the country has the highest obesity rates in western Europe, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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"It has to do with obesity, a lack of a healthy lifestyle and really the increasing incidence and prevalence of hypertension," she said, adding that combating obesity and hypertension is a war that the country is losing.
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Obesity and severe obesity were more common among black and Hispanic youth than white children and teens, and also more likely to develop in older youth and children from households headed by an adult with limited education.
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And deaths from some cancers, mostly related to obesity, continue to rise.
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Sam Kass, who for five years drove Michelle Obama's obesity-fighting campaign.
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The CDC's results on adult obesity tended to vary along racial lines.
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The obesity measure was defined as a BMI of 30 or higher.
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Sugary drink consumption is directly linked to these obesity and diabetes epidemics.
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Should we blame fast foods for diabetes and obesity in this country?
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Once the perception of obesity is disease, everything will fall into place.
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West Virginia had the highest obesity rate among adults, at 38.1 percent.
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Obesity remains one of the paramount public health challenges for our country.
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The state's obesity and smoking rates are "off the charts," Witters said.
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As Vox notes, BMI is an imperfect measure of obesity and health.
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They might even expand it sometimes, to combat obesity or global warming.
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Obesity is a disease and it needs to be treated like that.
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Obesity is major public health problem in the United States and globally.
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If it's not overeating, then what is the underlying cause of obesity?
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The bottom line: Obesity is more complicated than eating habits or exercise.
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Both obesity and malnutrition can be exacerbated by the wrong gut bacteria.
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This was not always such a fit nation, current obesity levels notwithstanding.
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Obesity, which has been sharply rising since the 19713s, is more ambiguous.
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He previously criticized Holliday's Cosmopolitan U.K. cover, saying that it glamorized obesity.
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Kerala has the second-highest rate of child obesity among Indian states.
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"The epidemic of obesity has become a global concern," Lauby-Secretan said.
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Her dad, who had struggled with obesity, was just 48-years-old.
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Jewel would also recommend the surgery to other teens with severe obesity.
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They do want to address issues related to obesity or other issues.
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But the underlying causes of childhood obesity are fiendishly tricky to fix.
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Pretty much every country in the world now has an obesity crisis.
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But worldwide, we have not yet seen any turn in obesity rates.
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You see these dramatic generation-to-generation changes [in diabetes and obesity].
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"Therefore, the obesity epidemic cannot fully explain the observed patterns," Clarke says.
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Notably, obesity-related illnesses now make up about 21% of these costs.
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Similarly, research around obesity must influence the making and marketing of food.
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I'm pointing out that our current understanding of obesity is totally wrong.
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Obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's: These are gigantic problems that there are solutions for.
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Technology will continue to improve the treatment of both diabetes and obesity.
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Changing these systemic factors would, many argue, turn the obesity epidemic around.
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FOX NEWS: Why is pet obesity such a prevalent issue in America?
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"I was at an obesity clinic when I was 8," she says.
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The lowest obesity rates were seen in Bangladesh and Vietnam, at 1%.
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That was true even after taking obesity into account, the authors say.
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She was going to start talking about nutrition and fight childhood obesity.
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Some even suggested Pokémon could be the solution to the obesity crisis.
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It is linked to older age, obesity, family history and ethnic background.
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Among the more than 6 million cases, 43.6% were obesity-associated cancers.
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The term first popped up in 2012 and was linked to obesity.
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The traditional approach is that it's overweight or obesity that causes diabetes.
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It could also help scientists get a handle on depression and obesity.
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Programs like the Stop Subsidizing Childhood Obesity Act, introduced by then-Sen.
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Meanwhile, Haile learned a lot about health and the childhood obesity epidemic.
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And like her, they developed all of the conditions associated with obesity.
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So let's start using honest language: Smoking and obesity are health problems.
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Rates of heroin overdoses and obesity are among the highest in America.
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Fortunately, the converse of the diabetes and obesity story is also true.
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"The overall prevalence of obesity has increased steadily since 2014," it said.
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Overeating is an addiction that leads to obesity, that leads to death.
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The U.S. had the highest level of childhood obesity, at 12.7 percent.
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Do studies show that soft drinks promote obesity and Type 2 diabetes?
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Oviva raised $12 million to fight diabetes and obesity with an app.
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The company has lobbied against public health legislation targeting the obesity epidemic.
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Dietz said there are significant ethnic differences in the prevalence of obesity.
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"For the study, we focused on monogenic forms of obesity," said Meyre.
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The prevalence of obesity doubled in more than 70 countries since 1980.
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According to the World Health Organization, obesity has doubled worldwide since 28503.
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Obesity is a subject of poverty, you know, because of bad food.
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We need to talk about Labrador retriever obesity, the world's cuddliest epidemic.
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For starters, our political leaders should make combating obesity a top priority.
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Researchers followed 263 patients who had obesity surgery between 220 and 230.
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The party also wants to introduce a strategy to tackle childhood obesity.
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"I think in general this is good news for obesity," Klein said.
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It's much easier to prevent obesity than it is to reverse it.
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Each explores how as these countries prosper, the incidence of obesity increases.
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And in 2009, it was written into the national obesity prevention law.
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What does correlate is smoking, obesity, rates of exercise, and so forth.
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Commuting has been linked to higher rates of obesity, stress, and depression.
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Obesity may be an especially tough battle in Africa for other reasons.
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Obesity now spans across races, but minorities are more overweight and obese.
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Another 22025 million are overweight but fall short of the obesity threshold.
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Another 213 million are overweight but fall short of the obesity threshold.
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The result is often malnutrition and, paradoxically, obesity, according to the report.
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One researcher called the loneliness epidemic a greater health threat than obesity.
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What might a multivariate solution to a problem like obesity look like?
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Some major health problems, like diabetes and obesity, have become more common.
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But veterinarians single out overfeeding as the greatest contributor to pet obesity.
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And researchers and obesity experts think there are several reasons for that.
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But in rural areas, the obesity rate for women was 47.2 percent.
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The rise in childhood obesity in China roughly paralleled that overall change.
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They're not having an epidemic of obesity and diabetes and lung cancer.
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Then they compared exercise habits and obesity and noted an interesting pattern.
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It is still unclear exactly what role genetics plays in human obesity.
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In 221, Anvisa hosted a traveling anti-obesity exhibit at its offices.
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Obama's initiative to combat childhood obesity by overhauling the nation's school menus.
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Observational data show that eating spicier foods is associated with less obesity.
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Rising obesity rates will translate into Type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
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There is a clear correlation between poverty and obesity, the WHO says.
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Higher cortisol levels were also associated with persistence of obesity over time.
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Like other epidemics, obesity affects a large and growing number of people.
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Obesity is a hormonal/regulatory disorder just like any other growth defect.
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This is important because obesity and diabetes often go hand in hand.
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No Balthus canvas or Woody Allen film ever cured arthritis or obesity.
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Rates of some cancers are increasing, including those often associated with obesity.
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"Everyone knows you get more traction talking about childhood obesity," he said.
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MYTH: The carnivore diet can cure health woes like fatigue and obesity.
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Drug overdoses, suicides, alcohol-related illnesses and obesity are largely to blame.
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However, new social pathologies have sprung up: obesity, joblessness, disability and addiction.
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The study doesn't prove obesity causes difficulties with breastfeeding, the authors caution.
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Having a BMI at or above 35 is regarded as severe obesity.
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Before her operation, she could blame her stalled life on her obesity.
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"Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with obesity," St-Onge said by email.
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"Obesity in itself is not something that should be glamorized," she said.
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These factors include tobacco use, obesity and infection with human papillomavirus (HPV).
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Poor nutrition and obesity are also a major threat to military readiness.
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Rural Americans have higher rates of obesity, diabetes, cancer and traumatic injuries.
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Professors' penchant for using obesity as a metaphor for capitalism and excess.
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"In 2000, obesity wasn't part of the public health agenda," said Gollust.
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For now, obesity doctor Yoni Freedhoff says he's keeping an open mind.
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A recent report on the obesity drug market from GlobalData estimated that there are more than 97 million people with obesity in the U.S., and that number is set to increase by nearly 63 percent annually on average.
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Many of the places where obesity is climbing the fastest — such as Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea-Bissau — have health care systems that "are not equipped to deal with this tsunami of [obesity-related] chronic conditions", Stokes added.
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The CDC says nearly 1 in 195.63 children in school (ages 6 to 19 years) in the U.S. has obesity and a separate recent study suggests children ages 2–5 have experienced a sharp increase in severe obesity.
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He added that there are prescriptions every day for anti-obesity medications that go through all major insurance companies in the U.S., but it is the employer who decides whether to make these medications available to their employees, and even as surveys show two-thirds of employers recognizing obesity as a disease, that has not led to a significant increase in coverage for obesity treatments.
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Aside from the known health risks associated with obesity, which include type 2 diabetes and certain cancers, the report estimates that obesity costs an extra $149 billion annually in direct healthcare spending, and another $66 billion in lost productivity.
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But the Trump administration has reportedly decided childhood obesity is not a priority, and White House officials have been trying to reverse the small policy gains to address childhood obesity made by previous administrations, including healthy school lunch regulations.
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The World Health Organisation held the first meeting of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity in 2014, recognising the link between obesity while young and non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders and cardiovascular disease in adult life.
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When the researchers analyzed their data, they found a greater increase in the odds for an obesity-associated cancer compared to non-obesity associated cancers in the 50- to 64-year age group, but a decrease for older individuals.
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Childhood obesity was over twice as prevalent in southern European countries than in northern European countries such as Denmark, Ireland and Norway, where rates of obesity in boys and girls ranged between 25% and 9%, according to the report.
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Erik Lewis, Brooklyn TO THE EDITOR: Re "The Fight Against Obesity Begins Early" (Personal Health, July 5): The importance of preventing and reversing obesity in children and teenagers is clear from the preponderance of research that Jane Brody cites.
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"Our previous reports had garnered little interest, so we had no way of knowing this one would go interplanetary," David Haslam, chair of the National Obesity Forum and a professor of obesity sciences at Robert Gordon University, told VICE.
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"Our previous reports had garnered little interest, so we had no way of knowing this one would go interplanetary," David Haslam, chair of the National Obesity Forum and a professor of obesity sciences at Robert Gordon University, told Tonic.
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There was no significant difference in obesity rates in children living in urban or rural regions, but severe obesity was significantly higher in rural areas — 9.4 percent, compared with 5.1 percent in cities with populations greater than a million.
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In the United States, the death rates associated with obesity fell from 63 per 100,000 in 1990 (the baseline year for this measure) to 61 per 100,000 people, reflecting medications that deal with the effects of obesity, like hypertension.
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She emphasized that obesity is not well understood by scientists; many researchers believed that childhood obesity could be prevented by breast-feeding, or by changing strategies for introducing solid foods, but that has not been borne out in studies.
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The review, published in 2015 in Current Obesity Reports, was prepared by Gregory Traversy and Jean-Philippe Chaput of the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Thankfully, another obesity doctor, Yoni Freedhoff, MD, was there to set things straight.
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Obesity brings with it a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
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In a study of which he was lead author in the journal Obesity
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Dietz, one of the country's authorities on obesity, for 15 years the director
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The researchers calculate that 14% of prescription opioid use is attributable to obesity.
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Another, more rigorous government study has also found adult obesity is inching up.
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Lifestyle factors influenced by our diet, like obesity, can raise cancer risk too.
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"When you get to treat obesity, you're one day too late," he said.
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Or what about Obama's "Let's Move" program, an effort to end childhood obesity?
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In adults, they've been associated with obesity, certain cancers, and possibly even dementia.
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They also experienced lower rates of obesity, heart disease, and hypertension as adults.
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He believes that dairy contributes to obesity, diabetes and the risk of osteoporosis.
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The physical activity of play also helps keep kids healthy and fight obesity.
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Among other diseases, food insecurity has been linked to the growing obesity epidemic.
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One sneaky sign of obesity in pets is a matted or messy coat.
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Cures you of all kinds of illnesses: diabetes, obesity, sinusitis, cancer, and witchcraft.
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But obesity rates are even higher in big cities, particularly in the north.
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But we've all been told that obesity is caused by eating too much.
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Studies suggest it prevents everything from diarrhea to pneumonia to diabetes to obesity.
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The two things should never be given equal weight in the obesity debate.
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Thailand currently has the second-highest obesity rate of all of Southeast Asia.
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"It's not only American fast food that will raise obesity levels," Kyaw explains.
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Pet obesity is an unfortunate epidemic that is affecting animals across the country.
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The study wasn't designed to prove whether or how obesity directly causes cardiomyopathy.
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The disease, affecting more than 15 million Americans, is closely linked to obesity.
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"Diabetes is just one chronic disease that is associated with obesity," Lee said.
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Obesity is associated with insulin resistance, which can turn into Type 2 diabetes.
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Rising obesity and diabetes rates is taking a toll on the human body.
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Other risk factors include obesity, weight gain during pregnancy or in between pregnancies.
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Just look at how obesity has risen since 1995, when Epicurious went online.
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These findings open new opportunities for treating overeating and the development of obesity.
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The rise of obesity within our society has only added to the burden.
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Poor nutrition and obesity continue to be a problem in the United States.
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That's the conclusion of a new analysis, published in the journal Obesity Reviews.
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"Exercise is truly a wondrous thing for health," said obesity physician Yoni Freedhoff.
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The sugar contributes to the rise in obesity rates and gives children cavities.
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On its website, the company lists a study published in the journal Obesity.
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Their research proves the following contention: Where meat is prevalent, so is obesity.
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In the Pacific, where obesity rates are highest, processed foods hold high stakes.
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High diversity is associated with a low risk of obesity and many diseases.
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In 1985, the US National Institutes of Health recommended BMI to measure obesity.
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That is the fact that scientists interested in preventing obesity should be researching.
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Most important, bariatric surgery seems to work well for adolescents with severe obesity.
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The newer model also showed a complex relationship between obesity and old age.
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The U.S. spent an estimated $190 billion treating obesity-related conditions in 2012.
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A chubby animal may be cute, but obesity can compromise a pet's health.
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But he made a diagnosis, "obesity pain," and relayed it to her internist.
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All these circumstances may give obesity genes a greater chance to express themselves.
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Rising obesity rates in the military come amid rising rates in civilian society.
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Obesity is on the rise across the services, The New York Times reported.
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Heavy drinking, type two diabetes, obesity and family history are other related factors.
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Several health problems, including drug use and obesity complications, have become more common.
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What's more, there is a well-established link between obesity and economic inequality.
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Thirty-one percent of current recruits are ineligible for service due to obesity.
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And out of thousands of comments, only five said I was promoting obesity.
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Obesity brings with it a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
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NIH's three chambers opened in 2007 to focus on the growing obesity epidemic.
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She added that obesity and drug use are not as common in China.
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Americans have a serious habit of overeating, leading to a nationwide obesity epidemic.
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It's no secret that obesity has reached epidemic levels in the United States.
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Nutritionists have said obesity figures are likely to have increased further since then.
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Now, we are anticipating a big crisis due to the rise of obesity.
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Two corporate-caused US epidemics -- obesity and opioid addictions -- add to the misery.
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Nighttime shift work is linked to obesity, diabetes, some cancers and heart disease.
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The obesity epidemic affects every region of the country and every demographic group.
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Obesity doesn't just hurt individuals' pocketbooks; it also affects the national budget deficit.
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Economic fears over Turkey, a possible Taliban milestone and obesity among Thailand's monks.
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JOHANNA RALSTON, LONDON The writer is chief executive of the World Obesity Federation.
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Public health advocates now fear another effect: an increase in diabetes and obesity.
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Girls in the U.S. had the 15th highest obesity rate in the world.
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Obesity has always been with us, but never has it been so common.
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Mutations in the gene account for 6 percent of children with severe obesity.
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A new study suggests intervening early in cases of extreme obesity may help.
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"We are being decimated by cancer, obesity, heart disease, and diabetes," Katso says.
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They also experienced higher rates of such conditions as obesity, diabetes and schizophrenia.
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Ms. Trump said there was a reason obesity has become a national problem.
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Lots of patients have the same combination of hypertension, diabetes, obesity and arthritis.
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At least 103 percent of childhood asthma cases may be attributable to obesity.
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The obesity crisis in America really began to take off in the 1970s.
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Out of those total costs, about a third are associated with their obesity.
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Yet obesity is rising - standing at nearly 40% of adults in 2015-16.
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John Hickenlooper set a goal of reducing obesity rates by 10% by 2020.
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None have found it to be a factor in weight gain or obesity.
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It may also increase the risk for childhood obesity, a new study reports.
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Obesity rates among children are rising faster in many countries than among adults.
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Before he left me, I told Foster that Obesity Week made me sad.
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Obesity, in other words, may simply be a natural consequence of global modernity.
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So, it cannot show whether exercising now necessarily thwarts obesity in the future.
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Better-trained aides could help patients manage chronic conditions like obesity and diabetes.
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Go deeper: Study: Millennials face greater risk of some cancers due to obesity
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Obesity, type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure are taking a growing toll.
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Obesity is a major societal problem that probably requires a major societal response.
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Furthermore, the causal mechanisms linking obesity to chronic illnesses aren't always well understood.
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Obesity increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes, joint disorders and certain cancers.
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However, it&aposs not clear whether obesity causes the changes, or vice versa.
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Dr. Sacks's challenge is a question at the center of obesity research today.
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And more weight-loss services like those so vividly described at Obesity Week.
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The first hopes to fight obesity by tricking the stomach into feeling full.
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According to the World Health Organization, obesity has nearly tripled globally since 1975.
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Obesity is a grave health concern, largely because it rarely occurs in isolation.
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Obesity and poor fitness are even threats to military readiness and national security.
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Why has the obesity epidemic not inspired more action to reverse its course?
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First, obesity is so common that we tend to perceive it as normal.
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G.T.: The conventional wisdom is that obesity is a problem of energy imbalance.
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Obesity-related infertility or mobility issues were no longer a problem for them.
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While eating less does temporarily treat obesity, it doesn't change the body's physiology.
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So with heart disease it's obesity, smoking, exercise, cholesterol, family history, and age.
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France has banned soda refills in an effort to combat obesity and diabetes.
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Worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975, according to the World Health Organization.
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At the same time, prepregnancy diabetes rose 22020 percent and obesity 22 percent.
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Malta has the highest share of adult obesity of European nations, 26 percent.
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SUGAR The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity By James Walvin 325 pp.
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We learned about the causes and consequences of rising obesity around the world.
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The first generation born in the obesity epidemic is just reaching middle age.
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He has spent over 25 years studying the obesity in children and adults.
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Obesity is linked to prostate cancer, scientists know, but it's not clear why.
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This means they are getting less exercise, which leads to higher obesity rates.
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One of the well-appreciated contributors to childhood obesity globally is food marketing.
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Chart of the Day Medicine's best obesity treatment is also its most misunderstood.
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Yet Americans weren't all that concerned or interested in policies to fight obesity.
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"Obesity is a complex and often intractable problem and America's obesity epidemic continues to have serious health and cost consequences for individuals, their families and our nation," said John Auerbach, president and CEO of Trust for America's Health, in a statement.
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Childhood obesity rates Youth obesity rates in the United States have steadily risen over the few decades past, nearly tripling in the past 30 years -- a trend first lady Michelle Obama worked to reverse during her time in the White House.
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In a telephone briefing about their work, professors Eran Segal and Eran Elinav of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said that while there has been good progress in studying obesity and its causes, relapsing obesity is poorly understood.
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A new Stanford University study has found an "activity inequality" around the world — in countries with high rates of obesity, there is greater variation in the number of steps people walk each day compared to populations with lower rates of obesity.
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"Obesity is the most important risk factor for type 2 diabetes and our attempts to control rising rates of obesity have so far not proved successful," said Majid Ezzati, a professor at Imperial College London who led the WHO research.
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Working in gastric science, tackling obesity and weight loss, I'm sure my company has done studies and experiments to solve problems and investigate questions that others have already solved — perhaps many times, because obesity and weight loss are fairly well-studied.
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"Pharmacy benefit managers rank the disease areas after what is the cost for insurance, and obesity still comes quite low, so what drives uptake is employers who have employees who want access to obesity medication," Chief Executive Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen said.
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The new WHO report, presented Wednesday at the European Congress on Obesity in Vienna, indicated that of 34 countries in the European region, the countries of Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, San Marino and Spain had the highest rates of childhood obesity.
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While excessive screen time and insufficient sleep have long been linked to obesity in adults, the current study offers fresh insight into why these connections may hold true even in early childhood, researchers note in the International Journal of Obesity.
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Brian Elbel, a professor in population health and health policy at the NYU School of Medicine, said the obesity-in-women puzzle underscores the fact that as a society, we simply haven't figured out how to address or combat obesity.
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Likewise, the team projected, in 25 states the prevalence of severe obesity will be higher than one adult in four, and severe obesity will become the most common weight category among women, non-Hispanic black adults and low-income adults nationally.
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Among adolescents, ages 215 to 2200, about 230 in 5 are considered to have obesity, and about 1 in 11 (9.1 percent) are considered to have extreme obesity, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
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High-quality studies on the long-term health outcomes of people with obesity who got surgery show, on average, that they're able to lose dramatic amounts of weight, and even reverse their obesity-related health conditions, like diabetes and high cholesterol.
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Let's also not forget the bipartisan Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2013 that recognizes obesity as a disease in accordance with the American Medical Association and mandates Medicare part D reimbursement for multiple resources including dietitians, lifestyle counselors, and pharmacotherapy to prevent the complications of obesity rather than waiting for them to develop (and accounting for approximately 200 billion dollars of direct health care costs per year).
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" Andrew YangAndrew YangBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity Yang says he would decriminalize opiates, as well as marijuana MORE has linked obesity to mental health by stating on his website "if someone comes to the hospital suffering from diabetes, obesity, or substance abuse, there is often a link to their holistic mental health.
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" To the Editor: I agree with Sarai Walker that "Americans are obsessed with obesity.
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Risk factors linked to the mother include high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes and obesity.
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"Diversifying diets" to counteract rising obesity rates -- a separate cause for concern -- is another.
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The cost of lifestyle diseases, such as obesity, is staggering in the United States.
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Obesity, diabetes, heart disease, all manner of infirmities result from over consumption of sugar.
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The CDC defines obesity as having a body mass index of 30 or higher.
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More than a third of Americans are obese, and with obesity comes health problems.
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Both exercise and obesity are rising, according to a new study in the U.S.
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New York and Chicago are two large cities that struggle with high obesity rates.
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The Imperial study lauds South Korea's efforts to check hypertension, obesity and chronic diseases.
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It took into account child mortality rates, obesity rates, health care, diets, cultural lifestyles.
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But there have seemingly been minor victories in lowering childhood obesity in some groups.
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German shepherds are disproportionately prone to musculoskeletal disorders, arthritis, diarrhea, obesity, and behavioral problems.
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Common health issues for this breed included hip dysplasia, epilepsy, obesity and eye diseases.
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"Upsets, they're as American as apple pie and obesity," he said in a voiceover.
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Hosea pointed out that she's Polynesian, an ethnic group that is vulnerable to obesity.
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According to the CDC, obesity is higher among women than men in the country.
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And we might also be able refocus our efforts on solving problems like obesity.
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As a result, some chronic diseases, including obesity and diabetes can be better treated.
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But food is the key problem when it comes to obesity, according to Afshin.
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Well known causes of NAFLD include obesity, diabetes, lipid disorders, and inflammatory bowel disease.
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It now covers 118 health behaviors, as well as statistics on obesity and asthma.
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From a physical standpoint, it can lead to obesity, diabetes, heart disease and hypertension.
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Mississippi is America's unhealthiest state, with high rates of obesity, diabetes and infant mortality.
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Adults between the ages of 40 and 59 bore the highest burden of obesity.
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This is now in committee as the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2017.
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Unfortunately, we are losing the obesity battle because we are eating more than ever.
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"I would never recommend it," said Yoni Freedhoff, an obesity doctor based in Ottawa.
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Their obesity also appears to put them at increased risk of a nonviable pregnancy.
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America is plagued by an obesity crisis that is getting worse, especially among children.
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The causes of liver disease can vary, from genetics to alcohol consumption and obesity.
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Since the 1990s the public has become more aware of the risks of obesity.
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Remember, what we need to explain is what caused the obesity and diabetes epidemics.
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Every southern state except Florida has an adult obesity rate higher than 30 percent.
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We talk a lot about high caloric intake, obesity and lack of physical activity.
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San Antonio's obesity rate fell below the state average under his leadership as mayor.
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But now one of the more urgent health problems is obesity and, relatedly, overnutrition.
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So what was it about the obesity-associated microbes that was promoting weight gain?
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That are preventable and lifestyle based, like diabetes, obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure.
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Consuming caffeine during pregnancy may increase the risk for obesity in childhood, researchers report.
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Technological advancements in the treatment of obesity have provided numerous treatment options for individuals.
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"This reinforces the fact that obesity in itself is a risk factor," Lassale said.
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Obesity then becomes an inter-generational problem, one that is "grossly neglected," said Artal.
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Canine and feline obesity exacerbates and accelerates almost every process that I'm aware of.
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Yes, the total weight gain of 582 million pounds includes more than just obesity.
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Given the ringmaster microbiota's location, it is thought to play a role in obesity.
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Research shows that breastfeeding babies can reduce their risk of obesity, diabetes and asthma.
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For years, we've known that soda is a major contributor to the obesity epidemic.
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The bottom line is that the availability of meat correlates with high obesity rates.
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What is behind the obesity problem among countries at the top of the table?
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From autism to obesity, the potential also exists for FMT to treat other conditions.
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" It also said that Garner's asthma, obesity and high blood pressure were "contributing conditions.
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We're told other contributing factors to her death include high blood pressure and obesity.
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These bacteria are believed to play a role in everything from obesity to depression.
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"Obesity medications added to behavioral treatment can be helpful for some patients," Yanovski added.
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And while obesity is a growing concern, malnourishment has not vanished from the planet.
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Racial and ethnic minority communities experience higher rates of obesity, cancer, diabetes, and AIDS.
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The study can't prove that television or time on smaller screens causes obesity, however.
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He once described his obesity as feeling like a prisoner of his own body.
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TMI misclassified obesity only 8% of the time (versus more than 19% with BMI).
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A rise in obesity is believed to be the main driver behind the rise.
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Roughly four in five people with both obesity and type 2 diabetes had NAFLD.
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You need to get out of denial and do something about your extreme obesity.
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In addition, methamphetamine is approved to treat obesity and d-amphetamine to treat narcolepsy.
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By lowering the sodium levels in food, you run the risk of increasing obesity.
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"This is a meaningful, incremental step in addressing" the country's obesity epidemic, he says.
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Similar to what we've seen in New York City, national obesity rates are climbing.
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Obesity, inactivity and a history of smoking appear to make these problems more likely.
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Ms. Newsome decided she wanted to go into obesity-related work as a profession.
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However, it is "too early to tell" what direction youth obesity prevalence will take.
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Moreover, obesity is much more likely the lower one lives on the socioeconomic ladder.
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Treatments for obesity are improving, but many are often either minimally effective or draconian.
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He has spent over 30 years studying obesity and nutrition in adults and children.
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Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), would prevent almost 600,000 cases of childhood obesity by 2025.
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Those changes were projected to prevent over 2900,220006 cases of childhood obesity by 2202.
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People who walk more and drive less tend to have lower rates of obesity.
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In 2004, he formed a nonprofit organization, the Jared Foundation, to fight childhood obesity.
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Those of us who have read the evidence will see obesity is extremely complex.
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Obesity now goes to the top of the list of things to focus on.
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And postmenopausal breast cancer is also connected to obesity, especially estrogen receptor positive cancer.
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Poverty makes both obesity and the negative health effects of this condition more likely.
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The Marines were by far the leanest, with an obesity rate of only 313%.
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Once obesity sets in, it's akin to a switch that turns the disease on.
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"The take-home point here is that obesity really is a disease," she said.
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Yet three-quarters of survey participants said obesity resulted from a lack of willpower.
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Obesity specialists said there were several reasons for obese people to seek medical help.
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That would advance the fight against obesity, which has more than doubled since 483.
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They've connected them to childhood obesity, asthma, neurological problems, cardiovascular issues and even cancer.
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This is caused predominantly by obesity, which is rampant in more and more countries.
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Farooqi adds that finding similar results in humans could have implications for tackling obesity.
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We know obesity is disproportionately caused by overeating rather than a lack of exercise.
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"Don't expect small taxes to make a big splash in reducing obesity," he said.
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"The prevalence of obesity started to rise quite sharply in the 1980s," says Nestle.
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Childbirth is a common reason for weak pelvic muscles, and obesity worsens the problem.
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About 1 in 5 health care dollars are spent to treat obesity-related illness.
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Studies show obesity appears to be plateauing in Caucasians, though not in ethnic minorities.
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And this understanding may pave the way to new, and better, treatments for obesity.
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That overuse is also associated with a higher risk of obesity and food allergies.
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I.V., malaria, childhood obesity and climate change, and promotes women's rights and other causes.
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Health advocates say the label requirements help fight obesity, but manufacturers fear losing profits.
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Drinking diet soda was associated with an almost doubled risk of overweight and obesity.
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We often think about obesity as being related to having too much to eat.
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What is usually a dark joke—We're Number One (In Gun Deaths and Obesity)!
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Obesity is associated with insulin resistance, which increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes.
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Even as the obesity problem worsens, Africa's older problem of malnutrition has hardly vanished.
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For Nadolsky's obesity clients, this amount of exercise is unrealistic when they're starting out.
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We just don't know to what extent added sugar contributes to the obesity epidemic.
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Obesity, rather than racial factors, is to blame, a new study in JAMA reports.
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And the new pathway provides an obvious target for drugs to protect against obesity.
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Those at high risk for obesity "may be more easily seduced," Dr. Loos said.
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We looked closely at Ghana, where obesity rates have expanded more than 650 percent.
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And these have two main causes, both of which are preventable: tobacco and obesity.
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The impact: Light pollution is associated with sleep deprivation, impaired daytime functioning and obesity.
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CDC officials say they target limited resources to areas where obesity rates are highest.
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He's also come across cheetahs with stress-related diseases and obesity due to confinement.
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Remove it and wait for the obesity epidemic and associated health risks to increase.
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Max Barry's death was complicated in part by morbid obesity, according to an autopsy.
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The way we see and treat people with obesity is very personal for me.
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I watched my single, working-class mother deal with lifelong problems associated with obesity.
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Also, obesity is related to systemic inflammation, which increases physical pain in our bodies.
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Broadly, obesity was found to be spreading fastest in Latin America, Africa and China.
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Childhood obesity is a big public health challenge, and has been for some time.
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A recent paper in Pediatric Obesity provided a guide on how to do better.
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For most obesity studies, that's going to be a decrease in body mass index.
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"We know in animal models that obesity accelerates the onset of cancer," said Berger.
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"The definition of obesity for children is not universal like the adults'," Barreira said.
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If rising obesity rates offer any clue, these trends don't show signs of improving.
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"For childhood obesity, there are many risk factors that happen during pregnancy," Li added.
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Obama's initiatives while first lady, especially her work to understand and prevent child obesity.
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The measure seeks to use state taxes on the drinks to fight childhood obesity.
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Second, strengthen SNAP-Education, which is the program's nutrition promotion and obesity-prevention component.
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Past research has connected it to factors including age, high blood pressure, and obesity.
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Many see public policy as the key to addressing obesity on a broad scale.
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Asian participants reported the lowest adult obesity rate with 17.4 percent, U.S. News writes.
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Finally, people in the U.S. tend to eat foods that contribute to obesity; i.
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We don't know if the fat is partially genetic or partially related to obesity.
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Obesity is a key risk factor for diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses.
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A large new study found no link between the method of birth and obesity.
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An initial assessment of the data found that obesity did vary by birth method.
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"Women don't need to be alarmed about C-section causing obesity in their children."
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In many areas, such as obesity and I.Q., Oster argues that it's the latter.
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Nearly 1 in 5 deaths in the US come as a result of obesity.
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Researchers have studied brown fat for years as a possible target for obesity treatments.
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And despite high cholesterol and borderline obesity, he declared Trump is in "excellent" health.
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Passage of the bill would signal that Congress has begun to take obesity seriously.
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Too much juice can contribute to problems like poor nutrition, obesity and tooth decay.
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Obesity, high blood pressure and smoking are known risk factors for having a stroke.
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Claim lines with several other obesity-related diagnoses also increased from 22019 to 2015.
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WHAT HAPPENS TO SOME OF THE HEALTH CONDITIONS RELATED TO OBESITY AFTER BARIATRIC SURGERY?
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Maybe both should join forces to fight against the increasingly deadly epidemic of obesity.
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They have higher rates of unaddressed cardiovascular risk factors like obesity, smoking and hypertension.
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Obesity, metabolic syndrome, autoimmune disease, Alzheimer's, even aging differs by sex, Dr. Arnold noted.
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I mentioned Tommy Tomlinson's new memoir about obesity the other day in this space.
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Some of the most important aspects of Michelle Obama's childhood obesity efforts were symbolic.
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But soda taxes have real limitations in fixing a problem as complex as obesity.
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In fact, studies suggest that regular smokers have a slightly reduced risk of obesity.
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I understand where obesity comes from, that it's a key problem for youth now.
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"Don't expect small taxes to make a big splash in reducing obesity," Sturm said.
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We've had good data conveying the severity of the childhood obesity crisis for years.
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Conditions like asthma, obesity, juvenile diabetes, and food allergies are all on the rise.
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Take Arkansas, a poor, largely rural state undergoing an epidemic of obesity and diabetes.
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The maps show the prevalence of obesity among U.S. adults remains relatively high, despite nationwide efforts in recent years to boost families' access to healthier foods and encourage exercise, Dr. Liping Pan, an epidemiologist in CDC's Obesity Prevention and Control program, told Mashable.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released two reports in 2016 suggesting the so-called obesity epidemic in the United States had hit a new high, and the World Health Organization also noted that global obesity rates have doubled since 1980.
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While the rates of obesity have leveled off in some countries where it's already a public health concern, other places are seeing their obesity rates increase, helping to prop up the global average, according to a study published in The Lancet late Thursday.
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High-quality studies on the long-term health outcomes of people with obesity who got surgery show, on average, that they're able to lose dramatic amounts of weight, and even reverse or prevent their obesity-related health conditions, like diabetes and high cholesterol.
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"The important thing to focus on is that there's increasing obesity which leads to a variety of obesity-related conditions, but labeling them with these pseudomedical terms like prediabetes isn't particularly helpful," said Dr. Rita F. Redberg, the editor of JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Hyper-partisanship and the culture wars can make reducing gun violence or obesity seem hopeless.
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The agency first published activity guidelines in 2008 to help control the U.S. obesity epidemic.
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It's where she supported the issues she cared about as first lady, especially childhood obesity.
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A lack of proper sleep also increases the risk of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.
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At different doses, GLP-2200R receptor drugs can be used to treat diabetes or obesity.
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For obesity to be treated as a chronic disease, new approaches to management are critical.
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But hardly any of the included studies accounted for obesity, a major cause of diabetes.
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