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- Should We End Obesity? https://time.com/6330809/ozempic-wegovy-mounjaro-healthy/ 3 comments
- New drugs could spell an end to the world’s obesity epidemic https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/03/02/new-drugs-could-spell-an-end-to-the-worlds-obesity-epidemic 2 comments
- A new class of drugs for weight loss could end obesity https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/03/02/a-new-class-of-drugs-for-weight-loss-could-end-obesity 48 comments
- New drugs could spell an end to the world’s obesity epidemic https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/03/02/new-drugs-could-spell-an-end-to-the-worlds-obesity-epidemic 8 comments
- New Drugs Could Help Treat Obesity. Could They End the Stigma, Too? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/health/obesity-drugs.html 3 comments
- Should We End Obesity? https://time.com/6330809/ozempic-wegovy-mounjaro-healthy/ 459 comments health
- Pricing In The End of Obesity https://investmenttakes.substack.com/p/pricing-in-the-end-of-obesity 440 comments futurology
- An end to obesity? A new class of effective drugs have arrived. https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/03/02/a-new-class-of-drugs-for-weight-loss-could-end-obesity 219 comments futurology
- Biden to reveal plan for reducing obesity, ending hunger by 2030 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/27/biden-end-hunger-crisis-2030/ 221 comments politics
- Obese people 'three times more likely' to end up in hospital because of Covid-19, says UAE health official https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/health/obese-people-three-times-more-likely-to-end-up-in-hospital-because-of-covid-19-says-uae-health-official-1.1236222 420 comments worldnews
- Earliest evidence of Italians' genetic diversity dates back to end of last glacial period. Genetic peculiarities contribute to reducing, on the one hand, the risk of kidney inflammation and skin cancers, and, on the other hand, the risk of diabetes and obesity, favouring sometimes a longer lifespan https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/udb-eeo051920.php 11 comments science
- In 1995 Falcons RB Craig Heyward became the first RB to rush for 1000 yards with a BMI above 36 (high end of the obesity scale) https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/fqp37l/in_1995_falcons_rb_craig_heyward_became_the_first/ 34 comments nfl
- Obesity-Driven Anxiety Lessens When Old Brain Cells Are Eliminated. Using senolytic drugs to decrease the number of "zombie cells," or senescent cells, in mice brains, the drugs ended anxious behavior and reduced lipid cells in the brains which then continued with normal neurological cell growth. https://www.genengnews.com/news/obesity-driven-anxiety-lessens-when-old-brain-cells-are-eliminated/ 6 comments science
- Could a blue whale become "obese" and how much could it end up weighing if it did have an unlimited food source? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/7ais1o/could_a_blue_whale_become_obese_and_how_much/ 6 comments askscience
- Researchers found that more US kids become overweight or obese during summer vacations than during the school year by examining BMI and obesity prevalence in a nationally representative sample of 18,170 children from the start of kindergarten in 2010 through the end of second grade in 2013. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.21613/full 197 comments science
- “The Chinese have a clear objective: bring the Chinese back on their bikes. Wherever you go, there are problems such as pollution, growing obesity, traffic, ecc. They are starting a plan to end hundreds if not thousands of kilometers of bycicle paths.” https://www.reddit.com/r/peloton/comments/50u4bw/tjlampre_to_make_the_switch_from_merida_to/d76xl8s 11 comments bicycling
- Child obesity is now a global crisis: An estimated 41 million children under 5 years old are either obese or overweight as of 2014, and the epidemic is hitting developing nations especially hard, according to a report from the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity. http://fortune.com/2016/01/25/child-obesity-global-crisis/ 31 comments worldnews
- The House Republicans who want to end FLOTUS's healthy school lunches are from America's most obese states... http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/06/house_gop_wants_to_cut_michelle_obama_s_healthy_school_lunches_these_republicans.html 58 comments politics
- Michelle Obama's Plan to End Childhood Obesity Epidemic. Kinda pointless without overhauling farm subsidies. http://children.webmd.com/news/20100511/michelle-obama-plan-to-end-child-obesity-epidemic 32 comments politics