Healthcare News
Mirrors may help encourage healthy behaviors in people with obesity
Source: Medical Xpress
Viewing oneself in the mirror may help positively alter behavior in individuals with obesity, according to an analysis of published studies.
Role of social entrepreneurship in obesity prevention
Source: Medical Xpress
Obesity has sometimes been called the silent epidemic, exposing millions of adults and children around the world to increased risks of non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and coronary heart disease.
Severe food insecurity linked with disordered eating behaviors in young people, including binge eating five years later
Source: Medical Xpress
Growing scientific evidence highlights a strong link between disordered eating and food insecurity (i.e., inconsistent or lack of access to adequate food), which disproportionately affects individuals across lower socioeconomic groups.
Warning labels on soda bottles, restaurant menus could reduce obesity, save health-care costs
Source: Medical Xpress
Warning labels on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and menu labeling requirements for chain restaurants could be a cost-effective policy leverage to prevent weight gain and reduce medical expenses, but their impact is expected to fade over time, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Research associates excess body weight with COVID-19 mortality
Source: Science Daily
Links between obesity and mortality have become increasingly evident, since the earliest pandemic of the 21st century, leading researchers from The University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to investigate if excess body weight may have been associated with high rates of COVID-19 mortalities around the globe.
