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This is your brain on food commercials… 
Gooey chocolate and scoops of mouth-watering chocolate ice cream. Steaming hot golden French fries. Children see thousands of commercials each year designed to increase their desire for foods high in sugar, fat, and salt like those mentioned above. Y...
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Socioeconomic inequalities in adult obesity risk in Canada: trends and decomposition analyses
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This study examines trends in socioeconomic-related inequalities in obesity risk among Canadian adults (aged 18-65 years) from 2000 to 2010 using five nationally representative Canadian Community Health Surveys (CCHSs). We employed t...
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Updating the Canadian Obesity Maps: An Epidemic in Progress
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OBJECTIVES: Obesity is a growing problem in Canada and worldwide. While obesity maps that convey changing rates over time and geography provide a useful way to convey such information, regional obesity surveillance maps for C...
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Being an Only or Last-Born Child Increases Later Risk of Obesity
Being an only or last-born child is associated with obesity. These associations may provide leads to targeted prevention of obesity in children. [Haugaard LK, Ajslev TA, Zimmermann E, Ängquist L, Sørensen TIA (2013) Being an Only or Last-...
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Study: Causal Relationship between Obesity and Vitamin D Status
Conclusions
Obesity—having an unhealthy amount of body fat—is increasing worldwide. In the US, for example, a third of the adult population is now obese. Obesity is defined as having a body mass index (BMI, an indicator of body fat calcu...
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Cost analyses of obesity in Canada: scope, quality, and implications
Conclusions
We observed high costs associated with overweight and obesity and modest costs for obesity prevention programs; however, no cost-effectiveness study of obesity interventions has been performed in Canada. Cost-effectiveness analyses of pr...
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Myths, Presumptions, and Facts about Obesity
RESULTS
We identified seven obesity-related myths concerning the effects of small sustained increases in energy intake or expenditure, establishment of realistic goals for weight loss, rapid weight loss, weight-loss readiness, physical-education cla...
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Traditional Chinese medicine studied as answer to obesity problem
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Nowadays, the occurrence of metabolic syndrome, which is characterized by obesity and clinical disorders, has been increasing rapidly over the world. It induces several serious chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia, ...
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Association of All-Cause Mortality With Overweight and Obesity Using Standard BMI Categories
Relative to normal weight, both obesity (all grades) and grades 2 and 3 obesity were associated with significantly higher all-cause mortality. Grade 1 obesity overall was not associated with higher mortality, and overweight was associated with signif...
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Exposing the Charade (junk food marketing in Australia)
The Obesity Policy Coalition has released one of the most comprehensive investigations into Australia's self-regulatory system for food marketing ever undertaken.
Detailed analysis illustrates how the advertising codes that claim to protect childr...
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Triflumizole is Obesogen in Mice that Acts thru Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor Gamma
TFZ acts through a PPARγ-dependent mechanism to induce adipogenic differentiation in MSCs and in preadipocytes at low nM concentrations. Prenatal TFZ exposure increases adipose depot weight and diverts MSC fate toward the adipocyte lineage; the...
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Globesity - the global fight against obesity
We believe that the global obesity epidemic may be the most pressing health challenge facing the world today because of both its direct impacts and ripple effects on chronic diseases, such as diabetes:
500mn obese and 1.4bn overweight Obesity ...
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Overweight & obesity in children & adolescents: Results from 2009-2011 Canada Health Survey
Since the late 1970s, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has risen among children and adolescents in Canada. Excess weight in childhood has been linked to insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, poor emotional health, and diminished ...
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Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism
Weighing In takes on the “obesity epidemic,” challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. Julie Guthman examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent “obesit...
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The weight of nations: an estimation of adult human biomass
Increasing population fatness could have the same implications for world food energy demands as an extra half a billion people living on the earth. [BMC Public Health 2012, 12:439 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-439]...
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The Weight of the Nation
An unprecedented collaboration with the Institute of Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health, and with funding from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, The Weight of ...
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Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation
Two-thirds of adults and one-third of children are overweight or obese. Left unchecked, obesity’s effects on health, health care costs, and our productivity as a nation could become catastrophic.
The staggering human toll of obesity-related ...
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Obesogens: An Environmental Link to Obesity
Many in the medical and exercise physiology communities remain wedded to poor diet and lack of exercise as the sole causes of obesity. However, researchers are gathering convincing evidence of chemical “obesogens”—dietary, pharmaceu...
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Unfit to Fight: A Report on California
Analysis of national surveys conducted for the military and by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that approximately one in four young Americans are unable to serve in the United States military due to being overweight. When w...
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The Global Obesity Pandemic
This four-part Series critically examines what we know about the global obesity pandemic: its drivers, its economic and health burden, the physiology behind weight control and maintenance, and what science tells us about the kind of actions that are ...
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