Sentences with phrase «on global obesity»

A study published last year in The Lancet compiled data on global obesity, using results from 1,698 studies that examined 19.2 million individuals in 200 countries.

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But, more than that, they would show you, by the characters they featured and the plotlines they put forward, a new way of seeing things on issues ranging from racial equality to obesity prevention to the global fight against AIDS.

«As the world's largest stevia producer and supplier, we recognise the unique role we can play in helping the food and beverage industry to reduce its impact on the environment and tackle the global obesity challenge, with our goals articulating the significant role we can play in this respect.»

These goals, said the company, mark a significant commitment to making a positive impact on the food and beverage industry's environmental footprint and helping to tackle the global obesity challenge.

In fact, research from the McKinsey Global Institute found that a 10 per cent tax on high - sugar products would be one of the least effective measures in combatting obesity, ranking 14th out of 17 intervention methods1.

Global examples have shown that soft drink taxes fail to have a meaningful impact on obesity rates and ultimately serve as a Band - Aid solution to a complex public health issue, which first and foremost requires access to adequate nutrition education and health care.

Given that global incidence rates of overweight and obesity are on the rise, particularly among children and adolescents, it is imperative that current public health strategies include education about beverage intake.

Research from the McKinsey Global Institute found that a 10 per cent tax on high - sugar products would be one of the least effective measures in combatting obesity, ranking 14th of 17 intervention methods, with portion control having the highest estimated impact with the most cost effective measures.

As obesity becomes a global health threat, scientists are discovering new details about how this complex affliction affects the body — and about the many factors that bring it on.

Global progress towards tackling obesity has been «unacceptably slow,» with only one in four countries implementing a policy on healthy eating up to 2010, according to a major new six - part Series on obesity, published in The Lancet.

The researchers examined respondents» deference to science on a scale of 0 - 10 when it came to 14 policy issues, including child vaccinations, stem cell research, global warming, child obesity and diet, AIDS prevention, birth control education, legalizing drug use, gun control, regulation of nuclear power, animal testing, and teaching evolution in schools.

«As the global obesity epidemic intensifies, advertisements may have a greater effect on people who are overweight and make snacks like chocolate bars harder to resist,» adds Dr Amy Reichelt, lead author of the paper and UNSWpostdoctoral associate.

* «Artificially sweetened beverages and the response to the global obesity crisis» by Maria Carolina Borges et al. published in PLOS Medicine at 19:00 UK time on Tuesday 3 January 2017.

Actually obesity needs a global action, on each of the factors that may be involved (diet, lack of exercise, hormonal problems, digestive, etc)

The notion that sugar is the root cause of the global obesity and diabetes epidemics — bearing disastrous effects on the human body above and beyond simply being empty calories — warrants serious scrutiny, Taubes states.

The 2015 Hill's Global Symposium on Dealing With Obesity and Concurrent Diseases was held in Miami, Florida, on April 27 and 28, 2015.

Marc regularly visits local schools to teach pupils about looking after animals, and often appears on radio, online, and social media raising awareness of important UK and global animal welfare issues, from pet obesity and fireworks night, to tick awareness and keeping wild animals in captivity.

Other countries are invited to join us on a fight against global obesity toward a Public Fructification.

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The obesity epidemic is precisely that — an epidemic of astounding proportions that threatens global health on a large scale.

And for more on using systems approaches to tackle large - scale population health issues, this video outlines the work of the Johns Hopkins University's Global Obesity Prevention Centre.