Obesity
High quality essays written by experts on health and nutrition are presented. Essays discuss the rise of obesity in the U.S., the problem of childhood obesity, and solutions for obesity such as physical education, nutrition education, and changes to restaurant and school lunch menus.
Obesity Trends in the U.S.
Obesity itself has existed for as long as people have existed, though the stigma attached to it is a fairly recent phenomenon. In many cultures, both ancient and modern, obesity is seen...
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Current Obesity Statistics in the U.S.
In 2003, medical costs related to obesity totaled $92.6 billion, almost ten percent of America's total health costs. Most of this cost was paid for by raising health insurance premiums.
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An Overview of Obesity in the U.S.
Obesity is a medical condition usually defined by a person's body mass index (BMI), but also used as a general term for people with an excessive amount of body fat. In recent years...
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Editor's Choice
Are the Fat More Jolly?
Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Investigates the association of obesity and mental health. Ratio of mental health by obesity status; Obesity status predicting mental health...
Today's kids are no worse for weight.
Education Digest
Discusses various aspects of obesity among children. Defining overweight; Causes of obesity in children; The issue of fat and cholesterol; Ways in...
OUR FEAR OF OBESITY.
Town & Country
Presents stories that give some perspective on obesity.
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Obesity in America: Inevitable?
Nutrition Action Health Letter
Discusses the inevitability of obesity in the United States. Information on obesity; Efforts to prevent obesity.
Obesity in children
Pulse
Focuses on obesity in children. Information on obesity; Risk of obesity in adults; Causes of obesity; Syndromes that are associated with obesity;...
Public Policy Statement on Obesity and Health
Nutrition in Clinical Care
Presents the public policy statement on obesity and health in the United States. Prevalence of obesity in the country; Description of obesity;...
Fat chance
New Orleans Magazine
Discusses the health risks of obesity. Causes of obesity; Attributes of obese people; Treatments for obesity; Effect of the condition to a person's...
Untitled
New Statesman
Discusses various aspects of obesity in Great Britain. Causes of obesity; Social aspects of obesity; Economic aspects of obesity.
Further Reading
Too Big to Fit? Social Discrimination & Body Size
This section presents a bibliography on obesity.
FAT AMERICA
BusinessWest
Reports on the obesity problems in the U.S. Statistics of obese persons in the country; Health risks of obesity; Factors that contribute to obesity.
CHILDHOOD OBESITY: A 'BIG' PROBLEM
Medical Update
Addresses the incidence of obesity in children.
Mangia meno (eat less)
BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition)
Opinion. Discusses ethical issues about obesity. Discrimination against obese people; Health concerns in obesity; Treatment of obesity.
Obesity Articles A-Z
- A Call to Pediatric Nurse Practitioners in Battling the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
- A healthy weight is a family affair
- A pharmacologic approach to obesity
- A weighty issue
- ABC of Nutrition: OBESTITY: DIAGNOSIS AND RISKS
- Abdominal obesity
- Acting on Australia's health: A study in obesity
- Advances and retreats in the pharmacotherapy of obesity
- America Suffers from an Epidemic of Obesity
- America's Fattest Cities 2003
- American Workers: 1 in 5 Grossly Obese, Smokes, Drinks Heavily, Is Couch Potato
- Appetite Suppressants as Adjuncts in the Treatment of Obesity
- Are the Fat More Jolly?
- As the U.S. wins die war against hunger, it's losing the battle against weight gain
- Asia Fattens
- ask Doctor Cory
- Baby fat
- Baby's weight unrelated to mother's obesity
- Big as life: Obesity in America
- Breaking New Ground in Obesity Prevention
- Breastfeeding Reduces Risk of Obesity
- Can Being Overweight Cause Cancer?
- Can genes be blamed for obesity?
- Cancer and Obesity Clearly Linked
- Caring for obese obstetric patients
- CHEWING THE FAT
- Childhood obesity and consumption of fizzy drinks
- Childhood Obesity and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Review of the Science
- CHILDHOOD OBESITY ON THE RISE
- Childhood Obesity
- CHILDHOOD OBESITY: A 'BIG' PROBLEM
- Childhood obesity: a public health threat
- Childhood obesity: time for action, not complacency
- Childhood Obesity: Time for Action, Not Complacency
- Children and choice
- Children and obesity
- Children in Hospitals
- Commentary
- COUCH-POTATO PETS
- Countertransference and the Obese Patient
- CPD quiz: Obesity
- Dispelling the myths and learning some truths about childhood obesity
- Does adipocyte hypercellularity in obesity exist?
- downsize not supersize
- Drug Therapy for Obesity
- easing the pain
- EAT LESS, LIVE LONGER
- England confronts 'globesity'
- European plan to put obesity on governments' health agenda
- Every Body Is Beautiful
- Examination Questions
- FAT AMERICA
- Fat Cats, Plump Pups
- Fat chance
- Fat is a moral issue
- Fat
- Fatties are green
- Fight the fat
- Fighting obesity
- Fixing a Fat Nation
- For More Information
- Further Reading
- Gastric Bypass Improves Diabetes and Hypertension
- Get FIT, Not FAT
- Getting to grips with OBESITY
- Glossary
- go ask your mother
- Halting the Obesity Epidemic: A Public Health Policy Approach
- HEADLINE FROM THE FUTURE
- Healthy People 2010: Overweight and Obesity
- How I ensure my patients are well-motivated to lose weight
- Human Culture and the Global Epidemic of Obesity
- Index
- Introduction
- It Can Happen to You
- Letters: How to lose weight: stop eating
- LETTERS: Stop blaming GPs for the nation's obesity
- Like mother like daughter
- Managing obesity
- Mangia meno (eat less)
- Medical Care for Obese Patients: Advice for Health Care Professionals
- More employers see risks, costs of obesity
- Nature and Nurture in Childhood Obesity
- New-found gene may shed light on obesity
- NIH Clinical Guidelines on Obesity: A Summary
- NO BELLY LAUGHS
- No fat-for-all
- Notebook
- NY can't find diet for obese kids
- Obesity and Hypertension
- Obesity and Your Pet: a Natural Approach
- Obesity as a Risk Factor for Heart Disease: An Overview
- Obesity Discrimination/The Mental and Physical Effects of Obesity/Obesity and Self-Image
- Obesity Has Become An Epidemic Among Our Children
- Obesity impacts life insurance
- Obesity in African American Women
- Obesity in America
- Obesity in America: Heavy news
- Obesity in America: Inevitable?
- Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence: Epidemiology, Etiology, Clinical Diagnosis and Management
- Obesity in children
- Obesity share by nation
- Obesity Threatens Health in Exercise-Deprived Societies
- Obesity � part one
- Obesity's Health Risks
- Obesity--time to wake up
- Obesity-prostate Ca link is multifactorial, complex
- Obesity
- Obesity: it is up to us
- Obesity: Myths and realities
- Oh, my aching bones!
- On the scale of it
- Onset of obesity in a 36 year birth cohort study
- OUR FEAR OF OBESITY
- Our kids & the BIG FAT PROBLEM
- Overweight and obesity in European children and adolescents: causes and consequences, treatment and prevention: An introduction
- Overweight or severely overweight?
- Overweight population a burden to state
- Parental Perceptions of the Preschool Obese Child
- PEDIATRIC OBESITY
- PERSPECTIVE
- Preface (Hot Topic: Medicinal Strategies in the Treatment of Obesity Guest Editor: Akio Inui)
- Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance
- Prevention of Obesity in Young Children: A Critical Challenges for Medical Professionals
- PRINCIPLES FOR PRACTICE
- Public Policy Statement on Obesity and Health
- Resource on Eating Disorders and Obesity
- Scientists Say . . . TV Can Make You Gain Weight
- Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents
- Should obesity be treated?
- SIX REASONS
- SMALL STEPS CAN WIN THE WEIGHT BATTLE
- Society should bolster children's sense of worth
- Some Psychological and Social Factors Present in the Condition of Obesity
- Speak Up!
- Speakout Against Fat Hatred
- State-Specific Prevalance of Obesity Among Adults with Disabilities--Eight States and the District of Columbia, 1998-1999
- STATESTATS
- Step out of the car
- Study casts doubt on obesity theory
- Successful Management of the Obese Patient
- Supersize me
- Surgery of morbid obesity
- Surgical Treatment of Morbid Obesity: Who Is It For?
- Survival of the fittest
- Tackling obesity in primary care
- Take A Hike, Junior
- Take our survey and win!
- The "Dynamic Epidemiology" of Obesity: Knowledge to Help Improve Our Ability to Manage the Condition
- THE BOTTOM LINE ABOUT FAT
- The current treatment protocols
- The Difference Between Obesity & Overweight: Diet Management
- The emerging science of body weight regulation and its impact on obesity treatment
- The Ethics of Promoting Weight Loss
- The fats on obesity
- The Genetics of Obesity
- The Girth of a Nation
- The Global Epidemic of Obesity: Why Global Approaches Won't Work
- THE GP RECORD
- The Hot Topic
- The investigation and management of obesity
- The Near Future
- The new paradigm of trust
- The Obesity Myth (Book)
- The Obesity-Sexual Health Relationship
- THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
- THE STRANGE CASE OF JACK SPRAT
- The Surgical Treatment of Obesity: A Personal Perspective
- The Weigh We Were
- THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD
- There's no `free' lunch
- Tracking obesity into adulthood
- Treating obesity
- Treatment for obesity must be continual
- Trends in Global Obesity
- TURN OFF THE TUBE!
- Untitled
- USPSTF recommends obesity screening for all patients
- Wanted: sex drive
- Weight And Cancer: More Links Uncovered
- Weight of evidence
- Weighty epidemic
- When Might Obesity Surgery Be Right?
- Where Are We with the Issue of Kids and Weight?
- Where Do You Fit in the Fight Against Fat?
- Why We're Losing the War Against Obesity
- Your views on... childhood obesity
