Obesity Crisis in America: Why Better Labels, Not Bans, Will Combat Obesity EpidemicIf we want to fight obesity while preserving personal choice, food labeling is the way to jump start the weight loss.
Obesity is a major public health concern and sometimes embarrassment about the condition can stop people looking for help. Obesity affects the ability of an individual to participate in everyday activities as well as having both short term and long term impacts on health. It can cause brea...
Obesity must be considered a real pathology. In the world wide, obesity represent one of the major public health issue associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Overweight or obesity, in fact, significantly increases the risk of contracting dise
When I called the anthropologist Helen Fisher, who studies love and sex and co-directs Match.com’sannual Singles in America surveyof more than 5,000 unpartnered Americans, I could almost feel her nodding over the phone. “The data is that people are having less sex,” she said, with a...
The problem is that just one fast food meal can pack 2 calories, sodium and fat for an 3 day or more! Eating fast food too often can 4 a variety of different health problems 5 obesity. A recent study from Reuters 6 that fast food companies are increasing 7 to market themselves to ...
It is obvious that doctors recognize obesity as a health problem.So why is it so hard for them to talk to their patients about it? The results of two surveys, one of primary care physicians and the other of patients, found that while most doctors want to help patients lose weight and ...
What's needed is a cultural change and a commitment to a healthier lifestyle. Obesity rises relentlessly because whole industries profit from it, he pointed out. "The problem worsens because far more resources are invested in propagating the problem than in fixing it," Katz added. "We know,...
Obesity and ethnicity The problem of underestimating obesity is even worse in some population groups. The extent to which the BMI misclassifies the body fatness of people depends on their ethnicity. It is well established, but not well known, that BMI misclassifies children and adults in south ...
Childhood obesity is a major problem. 2 According to Professor Norman Herr, the average child in America watches 1,680 minutes of television per week. The health risks are the same for adults. 3 Nowadays, we can see movies, series, and shows that present scenes of violence, sex, and ...
For people who have always lived in theU.S., the problem is even worse. There are a lot of reasons forAmerica's obesity epidemic--oversize portions, overprocessed foods, too little exercise. But nutritionists and anthropologists agree that the death of the official mealtime may play the bigg...