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2. Social determinants of obesity - Wikipedia

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   Social context associated with meal-time plays a key role in factors involved with obesity. Studies have shown the effects of family meal- time in relation to childhood obesity. A study done by Jerica Berge [16] looked only that the interactions at meal times with families and neglected the types of foods they were eating. The results showed ...

3. Social stigma of obesity - Wikipedia

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   [29] [92] [72] In a 2010 review examining whether weight stigma is an appropriate public health tool for treating and preventing overweight and obesity, Puhl and Heuer concluded that stigmatizing individuals with obesity is detrimental in three important ways: (1) it threatens actual physical health, (2) it perpetuates health disparities, and ...

4. Obesity - Wikipedia

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   Obesity is a major cause of disability and is correlated with various diseases and conditions, particularly cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis. [2] [12] [13] Obesity has individual, socioeconomic, and environmental causes.

5. Why BMI is not the obesity measurement we need - AOL

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   This evidence-based framework, developed by 56 experts in collaboration with individuals living with obesity, also addresses the societal impact of obesity and the harmful effects of weight stigma.

6. BMI is wrong way to measure obesity, researchers say - AOL

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   Potential effects of clinical obesity may include heart attack, stroke and kidney failure. "As these categories of obesity are entirely new, we can’t measure their relative prevalence in the ...

7. Radical new proposal from 58 medical experts would decenter ...

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   Breathlessness caused by effects of obesity on the lungs. Obesity-induced heart failure. Knee or hip pain, with joint stiffness and reduced range of motion as a direct effect of excess body fat on ...

8. Social influences on fitness behavior - Wikipedia

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   Obesity is a physical marker of poor health, increasing the likelihood of various diseases. [2] Due to social constructs surrounding health, the belief that being skinny is healthy and discrimination against those perceived to be 'unhealthy', [3] people who are considered overweight or obese on the BMI scale face many social challenges.

9. New report proposes redefining obesity by adding body fat and ...

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   Pre-clinical obesity refers to excess fat without organ dysfunction but increased risk of developing clinical obesity and other long-term health problems such as cardiovascular disease, and Type 2 ...