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More than one billion now afflicted by obesity: Lancet

More than one billion people around the world are now suffering from obesity with the number having more than quadrupled since 1990, according to a study released by The Lancet medical journal.

Overweight & Obesity

Treatment of obesity must be multifaceted, publication says

According to "Insights & Implications in Gerontology: The Chronic Disease of Obesity"—a new publication from the Gerontological Society of America (GSA)—overweight and obesity are now recognized as chronic health conditions ...

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What physicians get wrong about the risks of being overweight

Based on cues she'd picked up from popular culture and public health guidance, Stanford Medicine statistician Maya Mathur, Ph.D., had always assumed that being overweight decreases lifespans. She was surprised, then, to come ...

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