There are now more than 2 billion people worldwide who are overweight or obese, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. So, to put that in a different sort of light, there are now roughly the same number of people in the world who are overweight or obese as […]
Reposted from Examiner.com: Most of us have never heard of ghrelin (pronounced GRELL-in). The hormone has made headline news because a study published [this week] has explained how it interacts with FTO (fat mass and obesity-associated protein), the gene that researchers first linked to obesity in 2007. Here’s a closer look at the details of the new discovery. While only […]
It’s time for us to start changing the way we think about “fatties” — especially because so many of us now fit into that category. At its recent annual meeting in Chicago (June 16-19, 2013), the nation’s largest physician group, the American Medical Association, officially recognized obesity as a disease — in fact, as a […]
The world population is now approaching 8 billion, all of whom need to eat. However, how much someone eats varies of course, depending to a large degree on mass. New research just published in the journal BMC Public Health “has estimated the total mass of the human population, defined its distribution by region, and […]
New research has shown that exposure to commonly used chemicals causes changes in rats that are passed down through multiple generations. “We are now in the third human generation since the start of the chemical revolution, since humans have been exposed to these kinds of toxins,” says David Crews, co-author of the study and […]
The link between highly sedentary lifestyles and obesity is obvious. When we sit at a desk, on a couch, and in a car all day, it’s pretty darn hard not to get obese! In these maps and a graph above from researchers Anne Price and Ariel Godwin, you can pretty clearly see the correlation. […]
Chemicals in food and obesity are causing babies to grow breasts. Great cartoon on this matter from Joe Mohr.
National Bike Month is here and there are a lot of reasons to participate! It’s that time of year again. The sun is shining more and more (in most places in the Northern Hemisphere), the birds are chirping, and you can see more and more people on the streets riding their bikes. If you aren’t […]