U.S health and transport problems are us Today in these unUnited States of America, nearly 2,000 people will die of heart disease and another 1,700 or so will die of cancer. And […]
E-flailings
Success?
Californians now fatter than Alaskans! Just over a third of Alaskans today qualify as obese, making residents of the 49th state a perfect match for the citizens of Georgia and Maryland, according […]
Worse than ever
Obesity epidemic appears underestimated Americans might be even fatter than the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have been warning for years, physicians were told at the Endocrine Society meeting in Chicago […]
Clickbait
It’s not just for journalists anymore Researchers examining the thousands of pandemic studies of SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19 and related fallout have concluded some scientists might have become as fixated as journalists on attracting […]
This is us
Rise of the extra-wide home sapiens If you looked in the mirror recently and saw someone too big looking back, don’t worry. The World Obesity Foundation is now reporting the world population […]
Symbiotic epidemics
After the discovery that physical fitness greatly improves the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines, South African doctors are saying exercise “should be encouraged by greater public health messaging.” Good luck with that. The […]
Unfit city
Alaska’s largest city came in below average for fitness in the American College of Sports Medicine’s just-released survey of the health of the 100 largest cities in the United States, and it’s […]
The real problem
More bad news about the long-term effects of the pandemic has emerged from Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Ohio State University, and it isn’t about long-Covid. It’s worse. Publishing in peer-reviewed Clinical Obesity, […]
What matters
While Americans continue to feud over face coverings, a huge new meta-analysis is out pointing to what really drives the burden of Covid-19 in the Western world: obesity and so-called comorbidities. The […]
Cheating death
President Joe Biden might want to believe the nation is facing a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,’‘ but the reality is that the United States is largely facing the same pandemic of […]
