Ryan explains the disadvantages of obesity with in a stark list of outcomes at every stage of life ( Ryan 2007 Obesity in women: a life cycle of medical risk: International Journal of Obesity , 31, S3-S7.Obesity can have an adverse affect at each stage of a woman’s life cycle.In young women, obesity has an…
Read moreAdipose-tissue contains the largest store of energy in the body and has important roles in regulating energy partitioning. Adipose tissue is also seen as an active biological tissue rather than a mass of fat. Developments in genomics, in particular microarray-based expression profiling have: provided scientists with a number of new candidate genes whose expression in…
Read moreScotland is the second-fattest nation in the developed world, with only the United States having higher obesity levels, a report revealed yesterday.Figures show for the first time the full extent of the link between obesity and serious illness in Scotland, with obese people 18 per cent more likely to receive hospital treatment than those of…
Read moreThe popular use of epidemiology in nutrition requires that the tools used are accurate. If conclusions are drawn for associations between dietary intake and other variables the whole study is flawed when the results are incorrect.Estimating under-reporting of energy intake in dietary surveys using an individualised methodRennie et al British Journal of Nutrition , 2007,…
Read moreThe biology of obesity A review in Proceedings of the Nutrition Society (2005), 65, 31-38 Trayburn P Obesity is a preoccupation of modern nutrition. The founding fathers of our science would never have believed that the eradication of some major nutritional problems would lead to this particular epidemic.The biology of obesity includes]The fundamental mechanisms of…
Read moreObesity is as eveyone knows a real and threatening modern problem. The simple minded think that obesity is a result of eating too much. That the ready provision of food in the West just means that people eat to much in relation to their activity. There are very few fat people in the poor areas…
Read moreThe BMJ of 18th November 2006 has a leader and an article devoted to this very real problem. Local programmes and changes in policy have not had a substantial influence on reducing the number of obese children.In a large study in Glasgow nurseries, Reilly and his colleagues (BMJ 2006, vol 333, pp 1041-3) studied in…
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