A hormone that connects the body's metabolism and immune response system may explain why COVID-19 is so dangerous for people with obesity. "The problem for people with obesity is that their leptin levels are always high, and that can affect the response to a COVID-19 infection," said Can...
Obesity is far more common than it seems, and it requires much greater effort and more urgent attention than it is currently receiving. As we enter a new decade it is time for national resolutions that are more ambitious. The main drivers of the global obesity epidemic are well known: ...
Today, masturbation is even more common, andfears about its effects—now paired with concerns about digital porn’s ubiquity—are being raised anew by a strange assortment of people, including the psychologist Philip Zimbardo, the director of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, who is enjoying a...
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...
If breakfast alone isn't a guarantee of weight loss, why is there a link between obesity and breakfastskipping? 2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings 瘾 and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit...
Obesity may be viewed as a multifactorial pathology and chronic low-grade inflammatory disease. In fact, people affected by obesity have greater risk of developing comorbility and morbility, respect to healthy. Hence, the absolute therapeutic benefit is directly proportional to the basic risk. So, ...
We’ll let you know how you can promote better (and longer) sleep in your teens, but first, let’s take a look at why it’s so important. Why Is Sleep Important for Teens? You may be watching your teen grow an inch a month, but their brains are developing just as fast. When te...
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...
The observation that obesity, insulin resistance, dys- lipidemia, and arterial hypertension often occur in the same patient is not new. The clustering of these risk factors in epidemiological studies and in clinical practice is so obvious that the combination received a name. Now, the risk-factor...
tried to lose weight and may have been successful in the past — and many are still trying, the survey found. And many understand that losing even a small amount of weight can have a positive impact on their health and reduce their risk of obesity-related diseases like hypertension and ...