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TV and billboard campaigns still use slogans like “Too much screen time, too much kid” and “Being fat takes the fun out of being a kid.” Cat Pausé, a researcher at Massey University in New Zealand, spent months looking for a single public health campaign, worldwide, that attempted to reduce stigma against fat people and came up empty.
In 2015-16, 18.5% of kids and teens were obese and just under 6% were severely obese. Dietz faulted the government for not pushing for more measures to promote physical activity and better eating.
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults are considered overweight or obese, according to new research published Thursday from The Lancet. The research points to a substantial increase in overweight ...
On March 1, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported findings from a recent Lancet study that revealed 1 in 8 people worldwide are now living with obesity.More specifically, the latest data ...
The prevalence is 21%, 23% and 14% respectively. Also, in a national survey of American Indian children 5–18 years old, 39 percent were found to be overweight or at risk for being overweight. [26] As per national survey data, these trends indicate that by 2030, 86.3% of adults will be overweight or obese and 51.1% obese. [27]
Numerous large studies have demonstrated that eating ultraprocessed food has a positive dose-dependent relationship with both abdominal obesity and general obesity in both men and women. [27] Consuming a diet rich in unprocessed and minimally processed foods is linked with lower obesity risk and less chronic disease.
The most recent combined Eurostat statistics, for 2009, show that, among the 19 EU Member States for which data are available, the proportion of obese people in the adult population varied in 2008/9 between 8.0% (Romania) and 23.9% (UK) for women and between 7.6% (Romania) and 24.7% (Malta) for men. Overall the UK had the highest proportions ...
Anti-fat bias refers to prejudicial assumptions that are based on an assessment of a person as being overweight or obese. It is also known as " fat shaming " or " fatphobia ". Anti-fat bias can be found in many facets of society, [ 16 ] and fat activists commonly cite examples of mass media and popular culture that pervade this phenomenon.