It's a new way of looking at the obesity epidemic that could help spur fledgling movements to reveal calories on restaurant menus or rein in portion sizes.
Although the news stories focused largely on reducing the obesity epidemic, the images that went with them had the opposite effect, the study's authors say.
They may offer hope in the battle to control the current obesity epidemic.
The promotion of healthy diets and regular, adequate physical activity are major factors in fighting the childhood obesity epidemic.
Anxiety and depression cannot be blamed for America's obesity epidemic, but the psychotropic medications used to treat anxiety and depression may be responsible for at least some obesity cases.
It examines the epidemiology of obesity, the role of behavioural factors, socio-cultural factors and environmental factors in the obesity epidemic.
The British govt has decided to wipe out the obesity epidemic through a novel strategy - by offering fat people cash incentives.
Several studies have called into question the effectiveness of birth control in obese and overweight women - results that are particularly concerning in light of the recent U.S. obesity epidemic.
This positive relationship between our happiness and other people's weight provides a good psychological explanation for the current obesity epidemic in the west.
The 'obesity epidemic' is largely ascribed to declines in physical activity and differences in food quality and eating habits.
Of course, how the obesity epidemic will eventually play out no one really knows — the population's weight changes happen slowly.
I believe that the obesity epidemic must be due in in part to the ignorance of many consumers, especially if they are poorly educated, of the causes and consequences of obesity.
All of this explains in part why heart experts are concerned that the nation's obesity epidemic and the surge in diabetes rates threaten to unravel decades of progress against heart disease.
And, though Wong agrees that stress from overfilled lives is contributing to the obesity epidemic, she doesn't think it's because people haven't adapted to having food readily available.
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