Is obesity a risk factor or a disease? This debate shapes treatments, policies, and eating disorder care. Explore its impact ...

All these issues underscore the crucial need for primary prevention of obesity in children throughout the world.

34 Further studies are needed to clarify the association between GI and the primary prevention of obesity and obesity-related complications. In relation to the intake of dietary fiber ...

Between August 2021 and August 2023, approximately 40% of U.S. adults had obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Around 9.4% of those adults had severe obesity.

The benefit would be prevention of obesity-related comorbidities rather than addressing the damage that’s already occurred over time from conditions like type 2 diabetes, he said. “If you can ...

And they include 11,221 cases where obesity was the primary reason for hospital treatment ... shifting our focus from treatment to prevention as part of our 10-Year Health Plan.

"Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Practice for Childhood Obesity Treatment," authored by Pennington Biomedical’s Pediatric Obesity and Health Behavior Laboratory’s Dr. Amanda Staiano and Dr.