Vitamin D supplementation for older healthy adults has been much debated. Recent attention has been focused on its potential for
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Opinion: We must tackle obesity and health inequalities in order to build back better
The impact of COVID-19 on people overweight or with obesity has been significant. On World Obesity Day, Professor Rachel Batterham
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People living with obesity tend to have unhealthy glucose and lipid levels in their blood, as well as high blood
Continue reading »Low-quality maternal diet during pregnancy may be associated with late-childhood obesity
Eating a low quality diet, high in foods and food components associated with chronic inflammation, during pregnancy may be associated
Continue reading »3D microscopy sheds light on the body’s immune response to obesity
Researchers who focus on fat know that some adipose tissue is more prone to inflammation-related comorbidities than others, but the
Continue reading »Study links prolonged sedentary time to distractibility in adults with obesity, overweight
Scientists used accelerometers to track daily activity levels for a week in 89 adults with obesity or overweight and, in
Continue reading »What Does Staying up all Night and Sleeping all Day do to the Body?
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Continue reading »The interconnection of global pandemics: Obesity, impaired metabolic health and COVID-19
In a Nature Reviews Endocrinology article authors from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) highlight the interconnection of obesity
Continue reading »Lab results don’t explain ‘obesity paradox,’ but bias may
Results of standard laboratory tests performed on adult outpatients to provide an overall picture of their health are fairly consistent
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