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The Latest Breaking News from Obesity

Israeli Study Challenges BMI As Measure Of Obesity, Advocates For Body Fat Percentage

Researchers find one-third of normal-weight individuals are actually obese based on body fat percentage.

Zenger

How trauma can lead to weight issues

"Promoting a trauma-informed approach to both psychiatric and physical health care is vital"

Salon

Got milk in school? Farmers fight health advocates over the creamy ‘whole’ variety

Amanda Condo works at her family’s Pennsylvania dairy farm, but her son often won’t drink milk at school. He doesn’t like the flavor.

Tribune News Service

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How childhood trauma can lead to obesity in people with serious mental illness

People with a serious mental illness (SMI), like schizophrenia, often experience obesity. And in the UK, such people are almost twice as likely to be obese compared to those without a diagnosis.

The Conversation

Study finds how dietary restraint reduces effects of genetic risk of obesity

According to new research, persons with obesity risk genes tend to feel more hungry and lose control over their eating, but practising dietary restrictions may help to reverse this. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Did you know dietary restraint reduces effects of genetic risk of obesity? Study finds

Obesity-risk-genes">Obesity risk genes cause people to feel hungrier and lose control of their eating, although practising dietary constraints may help to reverse this. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Child obesity rates putting future of UK at risk, Tony Blair Institute warns

It has called for healthy food to be more readily available instead of unhealthy, cheaper options.

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Racial discrimination increases risk for childhood obesity: Study

According to a new study published in JAMA Network Open, children who suffer racial discrimination are more likely to have a higher BMI and a wider waistline later in life. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Prue Leith says the state must ‘sometimes’ step in to tackle child obesity

The ‘Great British Bake Off’ judge called on politicians to make a ‘really massive effort’ to deal with the issue

The Independent UK

What are weight loss injections and what’s the controversy?

Some celebrities are said to use the jabs.

The Independent UK

Midwife shortage and rising obesity levels straining maternity care – report

The NHS in England was short of the equivalent of 2,500 full-time midwives, the study suggested.

The Independent UK

Being overweight linked to 18 types of cancers in people under 40, study finds

New research has identified a link between a huge range of cancers and being overweight during early adulthood.

Daily Record

Research shows children from deprived areas much more likely to be hospitalised with covid

New research found that children with obesity were also more likely to need hospital treatment

Wales Online

Factors that are causing higher incidence of Diabetes type 2 in children

We are witnessing an increasing number of cases of type 2 diabetes in children, particularly among adolescents aged 12-18 years. Although type 2 diabetes has traditionally been more prevalent in older adults, there has been a concerning rise in its occurrence among children and adolescents in recent years. According to…

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UK’s soaring liver cancer death rate blamed on alcohol and obesity

Charity calls on government to do more to restrict unhealthy lifestyle choices

Zenger

Investors Seek Improved Weight-Loss Drugs With Focus On Nausea-Free Alternatives To Wegovy

Zenger

Global Pharma Has $700B For M&A And Investments – From AI To Obesity Drugs

Goldman Sachs research suggests the global pharmaceutical sector has approximately $700 billion available for M&A and investments

Daily Mirror

'New drugs could burn off excess fat and lead to obesity treatments to control diabetes'

Dr Miriam Stoppard shares groundbreaking work from the universities of East Anglia and Cambridge that could help develop medication to burn off excess calories from fat and sugar, which could combat obesity and related diseases

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Daily Mirror

Obesity is linked to FIVE new cancers - check to see if you are at risk

Researchers from the World Health Organisation discovered obese people aged between 18 and 40 were at risk of 18 different cancers, including leukaemia and non Hodgkin lymphoma

Dynamite News

Study reveals widely consumed vegetable oil leads to unhealthy gut

High use of soybean oil has been associated with obesity and diabetes, as well as autism, Alzheimer's disease, anxiety, and depression. Read further on Dynamite News:

Wales Online

Scientists find mistake in young life is linked to 40 cancers

There is a link to breast, bowel, kidney and pancreatic cancer as well as leukaemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and bladder, head and neck cancers

The Independent UK

Being overweight ‘linked to 18 cancers’ in under-40s

Adults are encouraged to keep their weight at normal levels to help ward off various different cancers

The Independent UK

Excess weight in under-40s ‘linked to 18 cancers’ – study

Adults are encouraged to keep their weight at normal levels to help ward off various different cancers.

The Guardian - UK

London theatre show’s cake poster falls foul of junk food ad rules

Theatre boss calls TfL decision ‘ridiculous’ after poster found to breach rules aimed at tackling obesity

Wales Online

'Why the Welsh Government is bang on to impose their restrictions on meal deals'

People have got very angry about it but it is a sensible policy to combat a real crisis

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