Search Result for 'obesity'

A GP has emailed Lockdown Sceptics with a short piece about obesity, which she calls the elephant in the room. Given its links to susceptibility to COVID-19, we have to...

...of obesity. As I’ll explain, however, this can’t explain more than a small part of the difference between East Asia and the rest of the world. To begin with, obesity’s...

According to the National Child Measurement Programme, obesity rates in reception age children jumped from 9.9% to 14.4% over a single year that consisted of repeated lockdowns and restrictions, meaning...

...only ever reinforce bad dietary habits amongst the young, fuel the U.K.’s already alarming obesity epidemic and… yep, you’ve guessed it: push an already overstretched NHS closer towards some kind of ‘breaking point’....

...obesity countries. As the obesity prevalence increases it remains basically flat. The countries with 20% obesity fare basically the same as those with 40%. Then suddenly, wham! A tower of...

...years. The NHS has been spending countless millions of taxpayers money on Wegovy, what’s the result? More obesity, the same level of obesity or less obesity? My money’s on more....

...causes in a paper entitled “Is obesity a manifestation of systemic racism?” The paper answers the question with an enthusiastic yes, and states the cure for obesity lies in fighting...

...obese and 21% at age 10-11. The incidence of obesity is rising rapidly: there were four times as many hospital admissions with a diagnosis of obesity in 2016/17 compared with...

...latter. So what other factors might explain the association? Two obvious possibilities are: obesity and healthcare spending. Maybe it proved more deadly in places where more people were obese? Or...

...the included studies could may actually strengthen when causal inference is considered. These confounders mentioned by NICE for Covid-19 severity included obesity, high blood pressure and socio-economic status: these are...