The World Health Organization has described obesity as a global epidemic and one of today's "most blatantly visible yet neglected public health problems." In the last few years reports on the rise of this life-threatening condition among children and adu
aAsk anyone why there is an obesity epidemic and they will tell you that it’s al down to eating too much and burning too few calories. That explanation appeals to common sense and has dominated efforts to get to the root of the obesity epidemic and reverse it. Yet obesity researchers ar...
000 unpartnered Americans, I could almost feel her nodding over the phone. “The data is that people are having less sex,” she said, with a hint of mischief. “I’m a Baby Boomer, and apparently in my day we were having
Yet obesity researchers are increasingly dissatisfied with it. Many now believe that something else must have changed in our environment to cause such dramatic rises in obesity over the past 40 years or so. Nobody is saying that the "big two"—reduced physical activity and increased availability...
Another potential avenue of investigation includes examining how proinflammatory fat tissue in people with obesity might contribute to activating fewer infection-fighting cells and why those cells die more quickly. More information:Candida J. Rebello et al, Obesity, the most common comorbidity in SARS...
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Experts wonder why the US government is not taking similarly strong actions against AIDS in this country... 专家们对为什么美国政府没在这个国家采取类似的强硬措施来对抗艾滋病而感到疑惑。 柯林斯高阶英语词典 There's a reason why women don't read this stuff; it's not funny... 女人不读这种东西...
The aims of this review is to provide a revision of the literature in order to define obesity as diseases, secondly to highlight the limits and the inaccuracy of common tools used for the diagnosis of obesity, and as a third thing to strengthen the concept of the complexity of obesity as...
Among the established individual-level risk factors for PRM are older maternal age, low educational attainment, obesity, and chronic health conditions (Callaghan, 2012; King, 2012). A recent study on population-level risk factors found that the increase in state-level maternal mortality could be ...
Obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and specific ethnicities (Black and Hispanic) have been reported to be common comorbidities and possible risk factors for the severity of both COVID and H1N1 influenza infections. Thus, it is important to understand why these four risk factors are common to both ...