Type 2 Diabetes Prevention: 10 tips for empathic communication about excess weight
Overweight and obesity have increased significantly in the UK over recent decades, with more than half of all adults and a third of children now affected. The reason this is of such concern and one of the biggest public health issues of modern times, is that excess weight, particularly in the form of fat carried around the middle (abdominal fat), greatly increases the risk of a number of...Read More
Association between obesity with disease-free survival and overall survival in triple-negative breast cancer: A meta-analysis
In a systematic review, published in Medicine, the authors sought to investigate whether obesity conveyed a benefit to disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with triple-negative breast cancer. Breast cancer is a complex condition with many different subtypes, which each behave in different ways. Triple negative breast cancer means that there is not enough expression...Read More
Effects of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour on Brain Response to High‐Calorie Food Cues in Young Adults
Physical activity is known to be an effective method of weight management, due to increased burning of calories. However, this study published in Obesity, found that beyond the calorific effect, there is also a physiological change in the brain in areas associated with reward. For this study, 22 lean and 18 obese people were selected and their activity levels assessed. Looking at levels of...Read More
Identification of Children’s BMI Trajectories and Prediction from Weight Gain in Infancy
The causes of childhood obesity are not always clear; however, the risk that it poses to adult health outcomes, such as cardiovascular health and premature death, mean that an understanding of common patterns and predictors in infancy are essential. This paper published in Obesity, used data on birthweight and BMI from 1,364 children of ages 24 months to 13 years, to see which patterns are...Read More
Metabolically Healthy Obesity, Transition to Metabolic Syndrome, and Cardiovascular Risk
This study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, used data from 6,089 participants of the MESA study to see how having a healthy metabolic profile despite obesity, affects your risk of cardiovascular disease. The debate over the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) associated with the three groups, metabolically healthy normal (MHN), metabolically healthy obese (MHO)...Read More
Ectopic fat obesity presents the greatest risk for incident type 2 diabetes: a population-based longitudinal study
Obesity is usually evaluated based on BMI, however more and more research is showing that the distribution of fat within the body is important in determining the harmful metabolic effects of obesity. In this historical cohort study, conducted in Japan, and published in the international journal of obesity, the authors set out to determine the relationship between different phenotypes of...Read More