From instinct to intellect: the challenge of maintaining healthy weight in the modern world

JC Peters, HR Wyatt, WT Donahoo, JO Hill - Obesity reviews, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The global obesity epidemic is being driven in large part by a mismatch between our
environment and our metabolism. Human physiology developed to function within an …

Obesity: a major global public health problem

LK Khan, BA Bowman - Annual Review of Nutrition, 1999 - search.proquest.com
Obesity is the most common nutrition disorder in the United States and other developed
countries today (17, 29). Clinical observations have long suggested a connection between …

Perspective: obesity is not a disease

DL Katz - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
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Doctors are historically ill-prepared to address the problem of obesity — with a tendency either …

Epidemiology of obesity

K Ošancova, S Hejda - Obesity: Its pathogenesis and management, 1975 - Springer
In contemporary society obesity is, no doubt, a serious issue. It is studied by many
specialists who are trying to resolve various aspects—from basic research into lipogenesis …

New light on obesity

J Hirsch, RL Leibel - New England Journal of Medicine, 1988 - Mass Medical Soc
There seems to be no end to the contradictory statements made about human obesity. Here
are a few. Obesity is the result of a metabolic defect; no, it is no more than the unfettered …

Obesity is an environmental issue

WSC Poston II, JP Foreyt - Atherosclerosis, 1999 - Elsevier
Obesity is an environmental issue. Societies that are transitioning to westernized lifestyles
are experiencing substantial increases in its prevalence. The primary environmental …

Role of obesogens in the pathogenesis of obesity

U Shahnazaryan, M Wójcik, T Bednarczuk… - Medicina, 2019 - mdpi.com
Obesity is considered to be a 20th century pandemic, and its prevalence correlates with the
increasing global pollution and the presence of chemical compounds in the environment …

Obesity: the allostatic load of weight loss dieting

A Tremblay, JP Chaput - Physiology & behavior, 2012 - Elsevier
The obesity epidemic that is prevailing in most countries of the world is generally attributed
to the increased amount of opportunities to be in positive energy balance in a context of …

Obesity: the disease of the twenty-first century

S Rössner - International journal of obesity, 2002 - nature.com
The prevalence of obesity is increasing globally, with nearly half a billion of the world's
population now considered to be overweight or obese. The obesity epidemic is related both …

[HTML][HTML] The paradox of obesity with normal weight; a cross-sectional study

Y Lahav, A Kfir, Y Gepner - Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 - frontiersin.org
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