Tag: obesity
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Efforts Underway to Interest State AGs in Obesity Litigation
According to Politico.com, an attorney who formerly represented cigarette manufacturers and served as in-house counsel for a major food company has written to the attorneys general (AGs) of 16 states seeking to interest them in bringing a lawsuit against “big food” to recover the financial Medicaid burdens associated with treating obesity-related diseases. Similar to AG…
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WHO World Cancer Report Targets Diet and Nutrition
The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) last week published its World Cancer Report 2014, a collaborative effort providing “a professional, multidisciplinary assessment of all aspects of the geographical distribution, biology, etiology, prevention, and control of cancer.” In addition to a chapter on cancer etiology as it relates to diet,…
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Researchers Examine Influence of Deregulation on Fast Food Consumption
A study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization has reported “a strong and positive association between fast food consumption and age-standardized mean BMI [body mass index]” in high-income countries, citing market deregulation as a possible factor in increased fast food consumption. Roberto De Vogli, et al., “The influence of market deregulation on…
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Report Says UK Obesity Crisis Was Underestimated
A recent report issued by the U.K.’s National Obesity Forum suggests that a 2007 prediction that 50 percent of the British population would be obese by 2050 significantly underestimated the scale of the country’s obesity crisis. Titled “State of the Nation’s Waistline,” the report notes that “it is entirely reasonable to conclude that the determinations…
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Study Allegedly Identifies Immunological Connection Between Obesity and Asthma
A recent animal study has allegedly identified a new immunological connection between obesity and asthma involving “inflammasome activation and production of cytokine interleukin-17 by innate lymphoid cells in the lung,” according to a concurrent editorial published in Nature Medicine. Hye Young Kim, et al., “Interleukin-17-producing innate lymphoid cells and the NLRP3 inflammasome facilitate obesity-associated airway…
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Systematic Review Summarizes Neuropsychological Model for Obesity
A recent systematic review of the current scientific literature “assigning obesity to the spectrum of neuropsychological diseases” has proposed “an integrative model” for understanding obesity not simply as a “deliberately flawed food intake behavior with the consequence of dysbalanced energetic uptake and expenditure,” but as a complex condition “linked to neurobio- logical and psychological aspects…
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Researchers Explore Food Addiction in Light of DSM-5 Criteria
York University researchers have published a qualitative study examining “how obese women with and without binge eating disorder (BED) experience overeating in relation to the DSM-5 [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual] symptoms of addiction.” Claire Curtis & Caroline Davis, “A Qualitative Study of Binge Eating and Obesity From an Addiction Perspective,” Eating Disorders, January 2014. According…
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Nestle Presentation to Target Role of SSBs in Escalating Obesity Rates
New York University Nutrition Professor Marion Nestle will join other speakers at Cornell University’s “Festschrift in Honor of Per Pinstrup-Andersen: New Directions in the Fight Against Hunger and Malnutrition,” slated for December 13-14, 2013, in Ithaca, New York. She and Cornell’s Malden Nesheim will present their paper, “The Internationalization of the Obesity Epidemic: The Case of…