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  1. nutritionfacts.org

    TodayKey Takeaways. Rising obesity rates may lead to shorter life expectancy for future generations, reversing centuries of progress in longevity. Studies suggesting that being overweight might extend life were biased due to confounding factors like smoking and reverse causality (diseases causing weight loss), and later analysis disproved the so-called obesity paradox.
  2. 2 days agoThe lack of a clinical identity for obesity as a disease then delays interventions and perpetuates the misconception that weight loss is purely preventative. By reframing obesity as a disease, the commission seeks to shift perspectives among patients, healthcare professionals, and policymakers. Defining Clinical and Pre-Clinical Obesity
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  4. Jan 14, 2025A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for the disease caused by excess body fat.. Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other ...
  5. Sep 13, 2023That's one provocative conclusion of a study published today in Science Advances that purports to push the obesity epidemic's origin back to as early as the 1930s. Historical measurements from hundreds of thousands of Danish youth show that in the decades before the problem was officially recognized, the heaviest members of society were ...
  6. smithsonianmag.com

    Nov 20, 2024Fat cells have a "memory" of obesity, which may help explain why it's so difficult to maintain weight loss, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature.

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