Energy balance vs carbohydrate insulin model – Part 2
Executive summary * This is the second of a two-part note looking at two models of obesity. One is called
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Obesity
Energy balance vs carbohydrate insulin model of obesity – Part 1
Executive Summary * The standard explanation for obesity is that there is an energy imbalance. Both as individuals and populations,
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What do Americans eat?
Executive summary * On Independence Day, we’re looking at what Americans eat. * An official (United States Department of Agriculture)
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Do we need to pay people to lose weight?
Executive Summary * A ‘new’ scheme has been launched in the UK to help people to lose weight and/or maintain
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Essay on The Obesity Epidemic
Introduction Back in 2019, I was invited to contribute an article to an academic book on obesity, which was to
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Fat shaming or life saving
Introduction In February 2004, HTV Wales made a discussion programme about obesity. They hosted a dozen people with many different
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COVID-19 Risk factors
Executive summary Introduction On March 17th, 2020, when I first searched the academic database, PubMed, for “COVID-19” and “humans”, there
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A global diet in an obese and starving world
Introduction In my last year of corporate life (2008), as HR Director across a group of companies I introduced ‘Lunch
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Weight gain over Christmas
This will be the last note before Christmas, so it seems appropriate to look at a festive study that has
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Diet for weight maintenance
On 16th November 2018, NY Times reporter Anahad O’Connor tweeted that the number one most emailed story on the NY
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