Research Paper Title Visual Identification of Obesity by Healthcare Professionals: An Experimental Study of Trainee and Qualified GPs. Background Guidelines suggest that healthcare professionals should screen and offer help to overweight and obese patients to lose weight. Despite this. such discussions are uncommon in practice. One reason for doctors lack of intervention on weight could be that they fail to recognise… Read More
Obesity & Dementia: Any Link?
Research Paper Title Age at Obesity and Association with Subsequent Dementia: Record Linkage Study. Background Obesity in mid-life may increase the risk of subsequent dementia. Our objective was to study this risk, focusing on differences by age at the time of recording of obesity, in a large defined population. Methods A record linkage cohort study… Read More
Obesity & Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is now more common than alcoholic liver disease owing to the rapid rise in the prevalence of obesity (Marchesini et al., 2008), and NAFLD is the most common cause of abnormal liver function tests (Clark et al., 2011). Its prevalence worldwide is thought to be approximately 20% in the general population… Read More
Linking Fried Food Consumption, Genetic Risk & Body Mass Index
Research Paper Title Fried Food Consumption, Genetic Risk, and Body Mass Index: Gene-diet Interaction Analysis in Three US Cohort Studies. Study Question Does genetic predisposition interact with the effect of fried food consumption on adiposity? Summary Answer The association between fried food consumption and adiposity is strengthened by genetic predisposition; and the genetic influences on… Read More
Is Obesity Rational?
Read this thought provoking article by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) which analyses the work of NBER researcher Christopher Ruhm. Abstract The combination of economic and biological factors is likely to result in overeating, in the current environment of cheap and readily available food. This propensity is shown using a “dual-decision” approach where choices reflect… Read More
Obesity: The Impact on Military Capability
News Article Title Thousands of British Troops are too Fat to be Deployed to Afghanistan, reveals leaked Army Memo. Article Thousands of British troops cannot be sent to Afghanistan because they are too fat to fight, a leaked army memo revealed. The war effort is being hampered by the number of front-line troops who are… Read More
Parental BMI & Childhood Obesity: Is There A Link?
Research Paper Title Assortative Weight Gain in Mother–daughter and Father–son Pairs: An Emerging Source of Childhood Obesity. Longitudinal Study of Trios (EarlyBird 43). Objective To look for same-sex (gender assortative) association of body mass index (BMI) in healthy trios (mother, father and child) from a contemporary birth cohort, which might imply shared environment rather than… Read More
Boot Camp & Military Fitness Institute 