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The United States spends $1.5 billion on nutrition research every year compared to around $60 billion on drug research. Just 4 percent of agricultural subsidies go to fruits and vegetables. No wonder that the healthiest foods can cost up to eight times more, calorie for calorie, than the unhealthiest—or that the gap gets wider every year.
Share of adults that are obese, 1975 to 2016. Obesity is common in the United States and is a major health issue associated with numerous diseases, specifically an increased risk of certain types of cancer, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and cardiovascular disease, as well as significant increases in early mortality and economic costs. [1]
Recent research, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by over 75 medical organisations worldwide, introduces an innovative and refined approach to diagnosing obesity.
With the American Medical Association's 2013 classification of obesity as a chronic disease, [23] it is thought that health insurance companies will more likely pay for obesity treatment, counseling and surgery, and the cost of research and development of adipose treatment pills or gene therapy treatments should be more affordable if insurers ...
"Obesity is a health risk - the difference is it's also an illness for some," Prof Rubino said. ... Prof Sir Jim Mann, co-director of the Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre, in Otago, New ...
The results of this research article highlighted the importance of needing to increase research and policy attention to addressing weight and health-related stigma as an issue regarding prevention and treatment for obesity in order to consequently decrease weight-driven inequalities in communities and differing groups, primarily focused on race ...
It's not news that Americans have a reputation for unhealthy eating habits that have caused an obesity epidemic, but have you taken a closer look at what Americans are actually eating as part of ...
Obesity has been observed throughout human history. Many early depictions of the human form in art and sculpture appear obese. [2] However, it was not until the 20th century that obesity became common — so much so that, in 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally recognized obesity as a global epidemic [3] and estimated that the worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly tripled ...