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According to the American Medical Association, obesity is now officially a disease. A highly preventable disease, but a disease nonetheless. I think that's probably the right call. For many people ...
The AMA officially recognized obesity as a disease in 2013 in an attempt to change how the medical community approaches the issue. [69] In 2015, the AMA declared there is no medically valid reason to exclude transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military. The Human Rights Campaign lauded the decision. [70]
Sudden cardiac death occurs in approximately one per 200,000 young athletes per year, usually triggered during competition or practice. [6] The victim is usually male and associated with association football, basketball, ice hockey, or American football, reflecting the large number of athletes participating in these sustained and strenuous ...
Obesity increases a person's risk of developing various metabolic diseases, cardiovascular disease, osteoarthritis, Alzheimer disease, depression, and certain types of cancer. [36] Depending on the degree of obesity and the presence of comorbid disorders, obesity is associated with an estimated 2–20 year shorter life expectancy.
A 2020 study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that NCAA Division I basketball players who were Black and male had the highest rates of sudden cardiac arrest and death of all ...
Instead, the AMA suggests that BMI should be used in conjunction with other tools to measure obesity, such as “measurements of visceral fat, body adiposity index, body composition, relative fat ...
Among young athletes, a common form of overuse injury is stress fractures, which include injuries of the: femoral neck/pubis; femoral shaft; tibia; fibula; metatarsals; calcaneus; cuboid 'Over-training Syndrome' is a term that has been used to describe athletes who, while training for competition, train beyond the body's ability to recover ...
Obesity has been observed throughout human history. Many early depictions of the human form in art and sculpture appear obese. [2] However, it was not until the 20th century that obesity became common — so much so that, in 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally recognized obesity as a global epidemic [3] and estimated that the worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly tripled ...