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How to use the word obesity in a Sentence?

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It’s well-publicized that child, adolescent, young adult obesity is rampant, if not epidemic, in our country.

Shane Dormady

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think younger people are on average consuming less healthy food – fast food, processed snacks, processed sugars – and I think that those foods also contain higher concentrations of carcinogens and mutagens, in addition to the fact that they are very fattening, it’s well-publicized that child, adolescent, young adult obesity is rampant, if not epidemic, in our country.

Shane Dormady

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Changes in these metabolic markers can be indicative of a number of different health outcomes in the future for the children, such as an increased susceptibility to obesity, insulin resistance, increased risk for fatty liver disease and potentially cancer.

David Andrews

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is particularly worrying to see obesity rates rising fastest among children and adolescents, governments and policymakers around the world need to do all they can to avoid passing health, social and economic costs on to the younger generation.

Louise Baur

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Added sugars are often found in processed foods which have little nutritional value and may lead to overeating and excess calorie intake, which in turn leads to overweight/obesity, a well-established risk factor for heart disease.

Brooke Aggarwal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With continual efforts to make improvements, we hope that this means that public health practitioners and policymakers, no matter where they’re from, what their political views might be, or what their personal ideas are, this is something we can come together on because this is an actionable place where we can make a difference in our obesity epidemic, which has felt so just intractable and so difficult to overcome, now, we can think of this not as a foregone conclusion, we can make a difference.

Aruna Chandran

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The findings add to previous studies showing an association between a greater proportion of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) in the diet and a higher risk of obesity, heart attacks, stroke, and type 2 diabetes.

Simon Steenson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

First, we as a society must consider obesity as a disease, as a biological problem, not as a moral failing, that’s my first piece of advice.

Eduardo Grunvald

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you – like a guy like Charlie, who I played in this movie – in any way, struggle with obesity, or you just feel like you’re in a dark sea, I want you to know that if you, too, can have the strength to just get to your feet and go to the light, good things will happen.

Sheryl Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The excitement about these medications are, right now, a little bit of a double-edged sword that I’m glad that people are excited and feel like they have a treatment option for their obesity that would really be meaningful.

Kimberly Gudzune

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And so, as a result of the kind of inability to get Wegovy, a lot of physicians started prescribing Ozempic off-label, which they’re permitted to do, for the treatment of obesity.

Kimberly Gudzune

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Literally hundreds of studies link ultra-processed foods to obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and overall mortality.

Marion Nestle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Reasons for such a sex difference are still unknown, but may involve the different roles that obesity, sex hormones, and metabolic hormones play in men versus women, alternatively, women may have chosen' healthier' ultraprocessed foods.

Fang Fang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Other countries keep large registries and databases, where they can have this timely surveillance of what is happening over time with individuals, it's just another sign of the lack of investment in child health and( obesity) prevention in United States.

Jennifer Woo Baidal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Once you get on that train towards elevated weight gain, it's really hard to turn it around, so prevention of overweight and obesity really early on are so important.

Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That was unexpected because we've generally seen kids from wealthier households be more protected from a lot of health issues, especially obesity, this really highlighted for me that obesity affects everybody across socioeconomic status.

Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In addition, overeating or consuming a lot of calories in a shorter period is linked with an increased risk of memory-related problems and overall cognitive impairment, overeating causes obesity that contributes to diabetes, high blood pressure and heart diseases, which are believed to be further causing Alzheimer’s and other brain illnesses.

Susan Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think it’s important for people to understand what the issues are, when we think about obesity, we have to go inside and understand why someone might be struggling. There are other issues we may not be aware of. What works for someone may not work for another. It’s a process.

Paul Archuleta/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They'll grow so fast they may overcompensate, which actually puts them at risk for obesity, metabolic syndrome and Type 2 diabetes later in life.

Brianna Moore

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As a society we need to work together to reduce obesity and prediabetes in youth, this will take a broad public health approach from working in schools, families, and most importantly availability of healthy foods with a particular emphasis on populations that are( at) greatest risk such as the youth population.

Robert Gabbay

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We know that individuals with obesity are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, glucose intolerance and some cancers, so improving that( health) profile is beneficial.

Nieca Goldberg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Sweet and sour chicken is a good source of protein (from the chicken), but is secretly packed with a ton of added sugar, some have upward of 40 g of added sugar per serving. Added sugar is negative for your health because it can increase risk of obesity, which leads to heart disease.

Allison Tallman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Some studies have been able to show that low to medium levels of circulating ketone bodies as seen in nutritional ketosis can be beneficial to the functioning of the endothelial cells in our vascular system. Protecting our vascular system benefits heart health, also, since obesity is a risk factor for heart disease, it makes sense that a ketogenic diet may indirectly benefit heart health simply by way of weight loss and weight management.

Arika Hoscheit

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are overwhelmed with the volume of patients that have really made that connection between obesity and Covid and the need for them to get appropriate care.

Cody Stanford

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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