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Warning labels on soda bottles, restaurant menus could reduce obesity, save health-care costs
Source: Medical Xpress
Warning labels on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and menu labeling requirements for chain restaurants could be a cost-effective policy leverage to prevent weight gain and reduce medical expenses, but their impact is expected to fade over time, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Research associates excess body weight with COVID-19 mortality
Source: Science Daily
Links between obesity and mortality have become increasingly evident, since the earliest pandemic of the 21st century, leading researchers from The University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to investigate if excess body weight may have been associated with high rates of COVID-19 mortalities around the globe.
New insight on the link between obesity and type 2 diabetes
Source: Medical Xpress
It is well known that obesity affects the body's insulin production and over time risks leading to type 2 diabetes and several other metabolic diseases. Now researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found further explanation for why fat cells cause metabolic morbidity.
Preventing obesity in people with type 1 diabetes is a difficult but not impossible balance
Source: Medical Xpress
People living with type 1 diabetes (T1D), in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin, must use replacement insulin injections to manage their blood sugar, and this insulin therapy itself increases the risk of weight gain and later obesity.
Over 4 million deaths per year caused by obesity
Source: Medical Xpress
Novel obesity treatments such as modulation of the gut microbiome and gene therapy are underutilized and could help fight the obesity epidemic, according to a new manuscript published in the Endocrine Society's journal, Endocrine Reviews.