Tag: Obesity
Fixing the global childhood obesity epidemic begins with making healthy choices...
Kathleen Trejo Tello, College of Charleston
The global childhood obesity epidemic has exploded. Over the past four decades, the...
Global diabetes cases on pace to soar to 1.3 billion people...
Lauryn Stafford, University of Washington and Liane Ong, University of Washington
The Research Brief is a short take about...
Exercise may or may not help you lose weight and keep...
Donald M. Lamkin, University of California, Los Angeles
The global fitness industry will generate over US$80 billion in revenue...
Curing America’s loneliness epidemic would make us healthier, fitter and less...
Clay Marsh, West Virginia University
A national health advisory issued by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on May 3,...
BMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure...
Scott Hagan, University of Washington
Amid the buzz around weight loss drugs and rising rates of obesity worldwide, many...
WHO’s recommendation against the use of artificial sweeteners for weight loss...
Lindsey Schier, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Scott Kanoski, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Drugs that melt away pounds still present more questions than answers,...
Wesley Dudgeon, College of Charleston
In the past five years, several new drugs have been brought to market that...
Obesity in children is rising dramatically, and it comes with major...
Christine Nguyen, University of Southern California
In the past two decades, children have become more obese and have developed...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
