Fri. Jul 5th, 2024

Tag: obesity

For the first time, obesity now poses a greater risk to global health than hunger: there are 1 billion people with excess fat worldwide (and the United States is not even one of the worst!)

David Hasselhoff’s daughter Hayley Hasselhoff says she is “not trying to glamorize obesity” as a plus-size model: “Everyone has the right to feel desired in their skin, no matter their size.”
Is it now time to slap smoking-style restrictions on junk food? Sobering charts lay bare reality of UK’s ever-worsening obesity crisis amid claim nation’s bulging waistline is costing £100billion a year

Britain’s obesity crisis is costing UK nearly £100billion a year and will ruin Rishi Sunak’s plans to get the sick back to work, analysis suggests

Big fat gold rush: Record number of doctors apply to become obesity specialists who can make up to $700,000 a year – as Americans clamor for weight-loss drugs
NANA AKUA: Too fat for life insurance? You’ve no one to blame but yourself… Though the ‘body positivity’ movement tells us obesity is okay, as a fitness trainer I know how dangerous it is