Questions tagged [obesity]
the condition of being grossly fat or overweight.
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Does weight loss from Ozempic come mainly from muscle and connectivity tissue loss?
A recent "The Joe Rogan Experience" episode with Bill Maher as the guest discussed weight loss drugs, especially type-2 diabetes GLP-1 agonists. The following interchange took place (J is ...
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Does a high BMI increase COVID-19’s severity?
I have been reading in the press about how being obesity can increase the severity of the disease. An article in Wired, Covid-19 Does Not Discriminate by Body Weight (17 April, 2020), seems to ...
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Is obesity causing diabetes and other illness, and not just correlated with?
According to the World Health Organisation website: (emphasis mine)
What are common health consequences of overweight and obesity? Raised
BMI is a major risk factor for noncommunicable diseases such ...
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Do obese adults use 42% more health care than healthy-weight adults?
In a New York Post Opinion piece the following claim was made:
An obese adult uses 42 percent more health care than a healthy-weight adult, and a morbidly obese adult uses a staggering 81 percent ...
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Does central heating contribute to obesity? [closed]
I remember a letter sent to the Financial Times some time last year from a farmer who claimed it wasn't surprising that obesity rates have increased because nowadays, with the ubiquity of central ...
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Is fat as bad as we are led to believe? [duplicate]
According to Fat is back: Rediscover the delights of lard, dripping and suet in The Independent (2009), the idea that eating a diet high in saturated fat clogs up the arteries and leads to heart ...
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Is obesity contagious?
Gina Kolata wrote in the NYTimes in the article Study Says Obesity Can Be Contagious in 2007:
Obesity can spread from person to person, much like a virus,
researchers are reporting today. When a ...
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Are obese patients in the US commonly sent to zoos for CT scans?
Nothing like the Daily Mail for raising an eyebrow:
The bizarre requests to use CT scanners, normally intended for four-legged animals, at the UK’s leading veterinary college in north London were ...
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Are statistics in controversial Australian antigay posters true?
According to the photo of an anti-gay poster depicted here:
92% of children of gay parents are abused
51% have depression
72% are obese
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Are these stats supported by other studies? If not,...
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Is Fructose the #1 source of obesity in the United States today?
Not my belief but one I ran into over at health SE. Interested to see what data there is beyond my (and tyler's) findings.
Argument for: https://health.stackexchange.com/a/7648/5266 -dead link
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Do high-fat diets causes heart disease?
This article in The Guardian alleges that the nutritional science establishment has spent the last 4 decades claiming that fatty diets cause heart disease when in fact sugar is largely to blame. The ...
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Does a tax on drinks with high sugar content reduce sugar consumption?
The UK government is introducing a sugar tax on soft drinks with more than 5g per 100ml of sugar.
Coca-Cola claims that this "flies in the face of evidence from around the world"
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Is the chance of an obese person attaining normal body weight 1 in 210 for men and 1 in 124 for women?
@GoogleFacts wrote in a tweet:
The chance of an obese person attaining normal body weight is 1 in 210 for men and 1 in 124 for women, according to a new study.
Are those numbers accurate?
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Is the correlation in betwen childhood trauma and addiction stronger than the correlation in between diabetes and obesity?
I came across this image on the internet, which makes the claim, "There is a stronger link between childhood trauma and addiction, than there is between obesity and diabetes. Two thirds of addicts ...
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Is obesity correlated with solitary and/or social eating?
The basis of this question is a pair of newspaper articles that appeared in the Guardian just over a year apart. I know, it's not a scholarly journal, and the articles aren't remotely scientific.
The ...
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