Health and Quality of Life Are Inseparable
Yesterday Childhood Obesity News looked at information indicating that when teenagers lose weight, their QOL (Quality of Life) scores rise. For a lot of teens, both obesity and depression are persistent coexisting conditions, although one or the other might arise first. An obese adolescence is worse for boys. Or maybe it’s worse for girls. “Results […]
Quality of Life Research from the NOO
In Britain they have a thing called the National Obesity Observatory (NOO) through which the government publishes the results of research concerning overweight and obesity. To gather information, the NOO operates the National Child Measurement Programme, whose data it analyses and interprets, and then advises health care practitioners and policy makers. The NOO published a […]
More on Childhood Obesity and Quality of Life
As yesterday’s Childhood Obesity News post noted, quality of life has been a subject of concern for quite a long time in the study of youth obesity. Sometimes, in the midst of all the journal articles and lab results and optimistically designed programs, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that millions of children […]
Childhood Obesity and Quality of Life
A little over 10 years ago, research was done on the quality of life experienced by children in various life situations. The starting point was a prior study that had compared the quality of life experienced by young cancer patients with children who suffered from congenital heart disease, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes. […]
Study Finds That Severe Childhood Obesity Can Cut Life Expectancy in Half
Severe childhood obesity can drastically reduce life expectancy, cutting it nearly in half, according to a recent global study.
Continuing Lifestyle Intervention, Part 3
Can the GLP-1 drugs cure obesity once and for all, and can they possibly do so in the absence of continuing lifestyle intervention?
Continuing Lifestyle Intervention, Part 2
Lifestyle medicine is definitely not an afterthought or an inconsequential footnote to treatment. All the six types of intervention are important.
Obesity and Country Life, Continued
Researchers try very hard to identify each and every contributing factor to obesity, including residential density and even air quality.
Inequality, Race, and Obesity
Poverty is very much linked to race in America. It’s also reflected in the prevalence of obesity among the historically disenfranchised groups.
Low-Quality Sleep As Obesity Villain
Studies shows insufficient sleep in children creates risk for not only obesity but cardio-metabolic instability, which could lead to diabetes and heart disease.