obesity

The Lancet’s year-long reports on non-communicable diseases continue with a long piece on obesity, undernutrition and climate change as synergistic drivers of poor health. Before the critique, let's start with a summary.

Gestational diabetes (GD) is the development of diabetes during pregnancy. For those afflicted, it is a significant problem for these women and the children they carry.

A recent study in the Journal of Experimental Biology looked at food choices by dogs and cats [1] when foods were equally palatable, a term we will return to momentarily.

Anyone not living under a rock is aware that the prevalence of obesity in this country (and indeed around the world) has been increasing for decades.

Parasitic worms aren't all bad.

Twenty years ago an expert panel at the NIH created a furor among obesity researchers by suggesting that the BMI cutoff point for a person to be considered overwe

In addition to the numerous metabolic problems (e.g. diabetes) associated with obesity, we can add problems with lung function.

Noting that about 30 percent of obese individuals are metabolically healthy (1), Dr.

Severe obesity (BMI = or > 40, or 35 if there are coincident health conditions) carries with it a variety of increased health risks, such as for type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart problems.

Weight stigma is real. Overweight and obese people are the targets of bias at work, school, at the doctor's office, within personal relationships and in the media.