“And news stories about weight often feature pictures of severely obese people, which are unrepresentative of the majority of overweight people.” ‘Sugar tax’ Dame Sally also reiterated her belief that a sugar tax may be necessary to combat obesity. At the start of March she told the Health...
In low income countries, the coexistence of obesity and underweight makes the situation more grievous. The priority is to explore the overall pictures of body weight status in low income countries and countries that are in transitional phase. Through this country wide cross sectional study we would...
While the most studied type of double burden is that of stunting and obesity, it is mostly applicable at the individual level among overweight adults who were previously stunted from chronic undernutrition during childhood. Wasting is associated with high rate of child mortality, whereas stunting has...
YHC is committed to counsel parents regarding parenting competence, and to promote healthy development and growth for all children [2]. YHC can also support public health strategies that are needed to tackle the problem of the increasing prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity [3, 4]. In...
In many countries the prevalence of overweight and obesity is at or above 60%, and within those countries overweight and obesity tend to be higher in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas [38]. This suggests the possibility of visual normalisation patterned geographically within countries. Recent ...
obesity plays a significant role in promoting the onset and development of malignant tumors, poor prognosis, and drug resistance to anticancer therapy.15,16 The production of insulin and insulin-like growth factors, adipocy tokines, the inflammatory response, hypoxia, and oxidative stress are ...
According to the Report on the Nutrition and Chronic Disease Status of Chinese Residents (2020), more than 50% of adult residents in China are overweight or obese, and the rates of overweight or obesity among children aged 6-17 and children under the age of 6 have reached 19% and 10.4%...
Video: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Joins Ad Council and Warner Bros. Pictures to Combat Childhood Overweight and ObesityWASHINGTON, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Ad Council today launched a new series of...
Although the WHO defines overweight as a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 25 kg/m2 and obesity as a BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2, for Asians in the Asia-Pacific region, overweight is defined as a BMI ≥ 23 kg/m2 and obesity as a BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 owing to their increased risk of chronic diseases,...
摘要: (2017). Emotional expression and eating in overweight and obesity. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 337-357. doi: 10.1080/21642850.2017.1378580关键词: Emotional eating;obesity;weight management;affect phobia;mindfulness; ...