obesity

UK Minister Pushes For Weight Loss Jabs To Help Unemployed Get Back To Work

In a bold initiative aimed at addressing the growing obesity crisis and its strain on the National Health Service (NHS), UK Health Minister Wes Streeting has proposed offering weight loss injections to unemployed individuals. This proposal, which Streeting outlined in a column, is designed to reduce obesity-related health costs while...

Unmasking The Dangers Of Ultra-Processed Foods: A Call To Action For Healthier Eating Habits

As humans have evolved over the course of thousands of years, so has our food and our dietary habits. Some of the changes took a turn for good, but a few habits have become a cause for concern. As the means of production and distribution have changed and humans have...

Lancet Study Reveals Over One Billion Individuals Worldwide Grappling With Obesity

An international study recently published in The Lancet shows that since 1990, obesity has more than doubled in adults and quadrupled in children and adolescents aged 5 to 19. More importantly, India faces the double burden of childhood obesity and obesity. The study, published on February 29, includes data on...

Light exercise may help reduce childhood obesity linked to inactivity

Childhood obesity is closely related to more sedentary time as a child through puberty, but new research has revealed that moderate physical activity may completely reverse the detrimental tendency.The study, published in Nature Communications, is the largest and longest follow-up to objectively measure physical activity and fat mass using data...