obesity

"In March 2021, the European Commission issued a brief in which it defined obesity as a “chronic relapsing disease, which in turn acts as a gateway to a range of other non-communicable diseases”. The brief provides obesity with the formal and bind categorisation status of a non-communicable...

Dang it! I just lost 35 pounds... Now what do I do?

The 1994 discovery of the hormone Leptin has led to exponential incremental scientific discoveries and now its role (in obesity in particular) is becoming more widely known. https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/26554-jeffrey-m-friedman-to-receive-2020-breakthrough-prize-in-life-sciences/ "Jeffrey...

Gary Taubes at Low Carb Houston, 2018 A long presentation, but very thought provoking IMO The global obesity epidemic: Is dietary and animal fat the culprit? Evidence based on 20 years of investigative journalism. cm5Cdy4-KtU The World Health Organization contends " The fundamental cause of...

Link And still people normalise obesity. We even have a "Fat Studies" course running as a legitimate qualification at a university here. Typically, it is being run and promoted by an American. A very large American ... woman?.. The CEO of Britain's NHS has already claimed obesity threatens to...

I apologize ahead of time, as I cannot provide a link (haven't found it so far) but I had heard a study on the radio where rats were fed a little too much food, and some were kept cool and others in warmer temperatures. The thought was obviously the cooler ones would gain weight more slowly...

From "Time" magazine: I don't see how it's even possible either. Burning 700 calories less a day means adding a pound a week. This wasn't particularly healthy weight loss as it encourages crash dieting and muscle mass may be loss. The person also doesn't have to lug that weight around but this...

Sorry, I heard about this on a podcast and I'm not sure where the original study is but apparently it was a meta-analysis. But what it found was that drinking milk was actually associated with lower, not higher rates of obesity in children, for example. None of the studies found it associated...

Right here (the horse's mouth) in today's In the Pipeline: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/11/04/novo_nordisk_braves_the_obesity_market.php

Dear friends, I haven´t been able to find an answer to this by looking at the many articles that have been published about the sugar issue lately. From what I understand excess sugar is the cause of obesity and obesity the cause of many illnesses, but how about someone who has normal weight...

I was just reading this article which asserts, among other things: Seems surprising, but on the other hand both groups -- fatties and smokers -- have a harder time buying life insurance. I would guess it's harder for a morbidly obese person to buy life insurance than a chain smoker.

This link is to a study done that reports that the overweight live the longest, BMI up to 34? http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/9196911/56873634/name/oby2009191a.pdf And my understanding of the BMI system is that it is merely a modernized formula for the Met Life Tables. Said tables had a simple...

I know early settlers seemed to resort to eating all sorts of inedible things due to their starvation, which would support physical and not metabolic satiation. That is an extreme case, but the idea could translate to the opposite condition of surplus. That is, eating high volume, low calorie...

Hi. This is a sort of spin-off from the thread "Is Obesity Incurable?", here: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=239190 If the obesity is so hard to "cure", I then mentioned about whether it could be prevented, such as in children, so they don't grow up to be obese...

...over the long term? I started doing research on the effectiveness of various diet plans five or more years down the road (for a Cracked article) and what I found floored me. The studies boasting of long-term success of structured diets are talking about incredibly modest weight losses...

I searched and didn't find a thread about this. What does "fat acceptance" mean to you? I'm curious about responses from both fat and non-fat people about the validity or dangers of the movement.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-554870/A-role-model-ordinary-women-No-Miss-England-finalist-fat-lazy-poster-girl-ill-health.html She isn't 'curvy' she is just plain fat, you can see her fat folds. Who is she trying to kid?

So, I decided to do something about my expanding gut and for the first time in my life started looking into methods of weight loss. Came across this presentation: Sugar, the bitter truth. For a short summary, try this one. And holy crap, was that an eye-opener. It makes a very compelling case...

NEW DELHI — Obese people now outnumber the hungry globally, but hardship for the undernourished is increasing amid a growing food crisis, the International Federation of the Red Cross warned Thursday. The Geneva-based humanitarian group focused on nutrition in its annual World Disasters Report...

Link Sounds to me like her 4 year old daughter is being abused ...

It appears that prolonged sitting is about as dangerous as smoking is for your health. When I first stumbled upon the headlines for such studies, I thought they only meant people who sat in chairs for long periods of time at work or at leisure and became overweight as a result. What I found...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42256829/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/ What's in those communion wafers anyway?

I stumbled across this MSN article today: "Are the Religious Prone to Obesity?" A buncha people sitting in one place for hours when they could be out protesting against gay veterans or barbecuing copies of the Koran... ;)

Glenn Beck talks about overweight people and how they should die... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/39221625#39221625 Mr. Beck, if you feel this way about fat people I think you and I will have to step outside!

So, the latest advertising campaign from Kellogs features little animated children running around doing kiddie things while their mothers stuff them full of Pop-Tarts. "Keeps them full and focused", says the voice-over. Evidently, if the tykes are suffering the pangs of imminent...

'... Rising rates of obesity among young Americans could undermine the future of the US military, two retired generals have warned. More than a quarter of young Americans are now too fat to fight, they said. ...' from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8655651.stm Maybe in future they...

Says this article. I don't know what to make of it. What are your opinions and personal experiences?

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

Story America has a "food system"? We have health classes, cooking shows, and gymnasiums. Lots and lots of them. I'm sure the vast overwhelming majority of them can. And in any case, what's that going to accomplish? In home economics, I learned how to make low mein from scratch, and...

I've heard that sweating and shivering burn [a significant amount of]calories. I looked it up, and confirmed it's true. Shivering is particularly effective. I wonder, could this be an overlooked factor for obesity? Could it be that widespread availability of climate control is a significant...