Sentences with phrase «ongoing epidemics of obesity»

This year, the United States ranked No. 18 — falling four spots from last year and five from two years ago — «in part because of the ongoing epidemics of obesity, substance abuse and untreated depression,» according to World Happiness Report co-editor and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs.

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American fast - food chains have also been wrestling with a wider range of health concerns at home, as many consumers are changing domestic eating habits in response to an ongoing obesity epidemic.

A crisis of tech addiction, in other words, looks more like the ongoing obesity epidemic.

This alternative hypothesis of obesity implies that the ongoing worldwide epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes (which stems to great extent from insulin resistance) are largely driven by the grains and sugars in our diets.

Preethi Srikanthan and colleagues from UCLA's Department of Medicine write in a May 2010 issue of the medical journal PLOS, «With the ongoing obesity epidemic in the U.S. and the disturbing increases in the incidence of obesity in children and young adults, our data suggest that we can expect to see sharp increases in sarcopenia and diabetes in the coming years.

And he is one of the experts featured in «Fed Up,» a documentary released earlier this year that examines the role of the food industry in the ongoing childhood obesity epidemic.