Prioritising and tackling socio-economic inequalities in obesity
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Source: BMC Obesity - August 15, 2014 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Listening to the experts: is there a place for food taxation in the fight against obesity in early childhood?
Conclusions
The panel identified several food groups that contributed to early childhood obesity but noted that these foods were not equally amenable to taxation. Results of this research should be considered during decision making and planning regarding population policy and regulation to reduce childhood obesity in the very early years. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - August 8, 2014 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Case management via telephone counseling and SMS for weight maintenance in adolescent obesity: study concept of the TeAM program
Conclusions
Weight maintenance treatment programs for adolescent obesity utilizing new media are a promising approach as they reach adolescents directly within their everyday life.
Trial registration
DRKS00004583. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - May 29, 2014 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Obesity and overweight: prevalence and associated socio demographic factors among mothers in three different areas in the Gaza Strip-Palestine: a cross-sectional study
Conclusions
The results showed that obesity and being overweight are highly prevalent among women in the Gaza Strip. Independent predictors of obesity in the population studied were increasing age, high income, and housewives. This finding is an important baseline for the monitoring of obesity and overweight cases in the future and highlights the need for community-based programs to combat this problem in Palestine. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - April 22, 2014 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Inhalation of carbon monoxide is ineffective as a long-term therapy to reduce obesity in mice fed a high fat diet
Conclusions
Our results demonstrate that CO inhalation has a transient effect to prevent and reduce body weight which is not sustained chronically in mice fed a high fat diet. These results suggest that chronic CO inhalation therapy is not an effective treatment to induce long term weight loss. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - March 4, 2014 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Design of CIAO, a research program to support the development of an integrated approach to prevent overweight and obesity in the Netherlands
Discussion
This innovative research program stimulates sub-studies to collaborate with local stakeholders and to share and integrate their knowledge, methodology and results. Therefore, the output of this program (both knowledge and practical tools) will be matched and form building blocks of a blueprint for a local evidence- and practice-based integrated approach towards prevention of overweight in children. The output will then support various communities to further optimize the implementation and subsequently the effects of this approach. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - February 19, 2014 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
An interview with Philip McTernan, section editor for the basic science section
Abstract
Philip McTernan is a Reader Associate Professor within Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick. His main interests involve understanding the causes and underlying mechanisms of obesity mediated type 2 diabetes and investigating potential therapeutic targets. He is currently researching the origins of inflammation in human adipocytes and is the Section Editor for the new ‘Basic Science’ section in BMC Obesity. In this interview we find out a little more about the key issues in this area of obesity research. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - February 19, 2014 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
BMC Obesity – expanding the BMC series into an important area of research
Abstract
This Editorial marks the launch of an important new journal to join the BMC series portfolio – BMC Obesity. BMC Obesity joins BMC Cancer as the second journal within the series to focus on a particular condition in the human body and the factors that contribute towards it. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - February 19, 2014 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Higher BMI is associated with reduced brain volume in heart failure
Conclusions
Our findings suggest increased BMI negatively affects brain volume in HF, and higher BMI interacts with cerebral perfusion to impact gray matter volume. The mechanisms for these findings remain unclear and likely involve multiple physiological processes. Prospective studies are needed to elucidate the exact pattern and rates of brain changes in obese HF persons. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - February 19, 2014 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
Dutch General Practitioners’ weight management policy for overweight and obese patients
Conclusions
In the context of General Practice and preventive medicine, GPs’ discussion of weight and the variety of obesity-determinants with their moderately overweight patients deserves more attention, especially from younger GPs. Strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration between GPs and dietitians could increase the referral percentage for dietary treatment. (Source: BMC Obesity)
Source: BMC Obesity - February 19, 2014 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: research
