The significant association between fast food, obesity, and hypertension among restaurant workers points out that fast food consumption is related to high rates of developing obesity and hypertension among rest
fast foodpublic healthobesityoverweightMichael L. MarlowDepartment of EconomicsAlden F. ShiersDepartment of EconomicsApplied Economics Letters Marlow, Michael L. and Shiers, Alden F. (2012). The relationship between fast food and obesity. Applied Economics Letters. 19(16), 1633-1637....
In America, fast food has become such an easy way to eat meals without the hassle. With everyone in the working class working long days and hours, fast food is so convenient and inexpensive. Along with the popularity of fast food continuing to rise, so are diabetes and obesity. According ...
Nations undergoing a transition towards diets that are increasingly dominated by unhealthy foods and beverages, such as Mexico, also experience a similar high prevalence of overweight and obesity, contributing to growing health concerns [3]. Online food retail, including websites and smart phone ...
Fast food consumption has become a way of life for many in the United States as well as many other countries in the world. The author Eric Schlosser an investigative reporter whose impeccable researching and bold interviewing captures the true essence of the immense impact that fast food ...
All of these are variants on policies aimed at increasing healthy diets that either have already been introduced (for example, traffic light labelling, the UK Soft Drink Industry Levy) or have been proposed in the UK Childhood Obesity Plan22. The UK Government’s dietary policy is underpinned ...
by Kyung-A Sun 1 and Joonho Moon 2,* 1 Department of Tourism Management, Gachon University, Seongnam 13120, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Tourism Administration, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Republic of Korea * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. ...
Likewise, the relation between the two dominant phyla, expressed as the Firmicutes:Bacteroidetes ratio, has been associated with several pathological conditions (31, 32), although the association with obesity is still being debated (33). One factor that reflects the difficulties of defining a ...
China has seen rapid increase in obesity and hypertension prevalence and fast food consumption over the past decade. We examined status and risk factors for Western- and Chinese fast food consumption and their associations with health outcomes in Chinese children, and examined how maternal factors wer...
Hypothalamic inflammation is thought to contribute to obesity. One potential mechanism is via gut microbiota derived bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) entering into the circulation and activation of Toll-like receptor-4. This is called metabolic endotox