Obesity

Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to an extent that it may have a negative effect on health. People are generally considered obese when their body mass index (BMI), a measurement obtained by dividing a person's weight by the square of the person's height—despite known allometric inaccuracies—is over 30 kg/m2; the range 25–30 kg/m2 is defined as overweight. Some East Asian countries use lower values. Obesity is correlated with various diseases and conditions, particularly cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis. High BMI is a marker of …

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Australian Human Rights Commission · 24 April 2024 English

I make the following recommendations: Recommendation 1 The Commission recommends that the Department progress each of the elements of the Alternatives to Held Detention program, including: • the development of …

leg swelling. • High blood cholesterol levels / obesity / fatty liver – Mr KO is prescribed lipid lowering


TSP: The Shift Project · 18 April 2024 French

Liste des abréviations ANAP Agence Nationale d’Appui à la Performance des Établissements de santé et médico-sociaux ANESM Agence nationale de l’évaluation et de la qualité des établissements et services médico-sociaux …

therapy for lifestyle mediators of overweight and obesity in community-dwelling adults: a systematic review


World Bank Group · 17 April 2024 English

With nearly 420 million children reached worldwide, school meals are among the largest-scale social protection interventions. This paper traces the evolution of school meals programs globally, examines the empirical evidence …

Finally, a third of the programs 11 identified obesity mitigation as an objective, with this objective about malnutrition give way to concerns about obesity. The objectives indicate that school meals programs Agriculture 62.5 48.94 30.3 30.16 42.08 Obesity 5 17.02 30.3 68.25 34.43 Average number of appropriate school meals to moderate the risk of obesity in childhood and of diet-related non-communicable


The Health Foundation · 16 April 2024 English

Health in 2040: projected patterns of illness in England

offset by the impact of an increase in obesity. The impact of obesity is even greater since people who reach older age are more likely to have been living with obesity for longer. * The projections rely on assumptions and risk factors such as smoking, alcohol use, obesity, diet and physical activity. We estimated how levels higher in those areas in 2019. • By contrast, obesity rates are growing, and from a higher 2019 level exposure to key risk factors such as smoking and obesity. Here we explore how projected trends in risk factors


The Health Foundation · 16 April 2024 English

Comparing the disease outcomes from the life courses under the baseline scenario versus the policy scenarios generates the health impact of the policy scenarios. [...] Figure 2-1 – Example of …

for example, that if the relative risk (RR) of obesity on CHD is 2 and the RR of smoking on CHD is 3,


ADB: Asian Development Bank · 10 April 2024 English

Several developing economies in Asia are not ready to face the challenges of demographic change.

prevalence of normal BMI 4 is 52.5%, while obesity and overweight account for 8.7% and 33.4%. Besides and national levels in the developing world: Obesity rates are rising in all economies, while undernutrition risk of coronary and cardiac disease, diabetes, obesity, and even some cancers. In addition to reducing


World Bank Group · 10 April 2024 English

Men die at higher rates in nearly all places and at all ages beyond age 45. Using World Health Organization excess mortality estimates by sex and age groups for 75 …

References Ameye, Hannah, and Johan Swinnen. 2019. “Obesity, income and gender: The changing global relationship


The Health Foundation · 10 April 2024 English

fat, salt and sugar products per household89 and led to an estimated 4.8% fewer individuals with obesity alongside a reduction of diabetes and cardiovascular disease incidence over a three-year period.90

key driver of overweight and obesity.24 The annual societal cost of obesity in the UK has been estimated care costs associated with obesity were around £6bn a year in England. Obesity is also highly unequal: in led to an estimated 4.8% fewer individuals with obesity alongside a reduction of diabetes and cardiovascular restricting outlets based on density and childhood obesity rates. Evaluation of this approach found a reduction outlets in areas with high rates of childhood obesity.109 However, the current planning system can only


World Bank Group · 9 April 2024 English

Men die at higher rates in nearly all places and at all ages beyond age 45. Using World Health Organization excess mortality estimates by sex and age groups for 75 …

References Ameye, Hannah, and Johan Swinnen. 2019. “Obesity, income and gender: The changing global relationship


ASC: Alzheimer Society of Canada · 9 April 2024 English

improve your brain health and • Funds research to find a cure and improve the care Up for aging can impair the body’s self-repair canada.ca/foodguide to reduce your risk of …

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