Posts Tagged ‘diagnosis’

Amid a steady stream of news from ObesityWeek, the CDC released new NHANES data this week documenting an ongoing rise in U.S. diabetes prevalence. Between 1999 and 2023, the age-adjusted prevalence of diabetes, diagnosed and undiagnosed, in adults rose from 9.7% to 14.3%. The total prevalence in adults between 2021 and 2023 was 15.8% – […]

More than a decade has passed since the American Medical Association confirmed that obesity is a complex, chronic disease. But the rest of the world is still struggling with this idea. Much as we have all started to say obesity is a disease, we more often act like it’s merely a risk factor for other […]

We have a relationship problem with BMI – the body mass index. As with any rocky relationship, we can’t seem to live with it and we can’t seem to live without it either. Professor Robert Kushner described the the good, the bad, and the ugly of BMI better than ever in an opening session of […]

The agendas people have for food and eating behaviors can make us dizzy. One rallying cry is that food is medicine. Presumably, that makes eating therapeutic. But not if we do it in a problematic way. Then we have an eating disorder. In fact, recent analyses of data from the Global Burden of Disease say […]