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- A century ago, obesity was rare. Now people all over the world are gaining weight, with 69% of adults in the US currently overweight or obese. Obesity is linked to rising rates of health problems such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
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A century ago, obesity was rare. Now people all over the world are gaining weight, with 69% of adults in the US currently overweight or obese. Obesity is linked to rising rates of health problems such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
The aim of this article is to understand how human adipose tissue biology interacts with modern environmental pressures to generate excess weight gain and obesity. The disease component of obesity might lie not in adipose tissue itself, but in its perturbation by our modern industrialized niche.
Sep 13, 2023 · Over the past 50 years, worldwide obesity rates have tripled, creating a public health crisis so widespread and damaging that it is sometimes referred to as an epidemic. Most accounts put the roots of the problem firmly in the modern age.
Instead of advice on reducing caloric intake, the emphasis was on how to gain weight. The first alarm against excess weight was sounded by the insurance industry. Actuarial studies that linked excess weight to increased mortality began to appear in the early years of the twentieth century.
Sep 30, 2015 · A study published recently in the journal Obesity Research & Clinical Practice found that it’s harder for adults today to maintain the same weight as those 20 to 30 years ago did, even at the...
Familiar territory even to schoolchildren today, the calorie was, more than a century ago, a niche concept just beginning to emerge from the laboratory and into public view.
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Obesity / history*. Renal Insufficiency, Chronic. Chronic food shortage and malnutrition have been the scourge of humankind from the dawn of history. The current worldwide epidemic of obesity, now recognized as a public health crisis, is barely a few decades old.
