obesity

In 2021, I highlighted the impact of rapid weight loss programs on your basal metabolic rates (BMR) and your ability to sustain any intense exercise activit

Based on a qualitative study from the UK, the answer is not a definite yes, because screening comes with issues. I know that firsthand because we all had our eyesight tested in second grade.

Childhood obesity is a growing problem in the US.

Could we have been all wrong about the obesity epidemic?

The findings are from the National Poll on Healthy Aging, a survey of a “randomly selected stratified group” of adults administered by phone or online.

Let’s start with the four components:

Join host Cameron English as he sits down Dr. Chuck Dinerstein to break down these stories on episode 29 of the Science Dispatch podcast:

“The researchers instead referred to obesity as a complex, chronic condition, and they were meeting to get to the bottom of why humans have, collectively, grown larger over the past half-century.

Struggling to lose weight? Exposure to air pollution might be partially to blame. That's what recent headlines would have you believe, anyway.

Join our directors of bio-sciences and chemistry, Cameron English and Dr. Josh Bloom, as they break down these stories on episode 24 of the Science Dispatch podcast.