#Obesity-policy

PCAST, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, has released its REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT A Vision for Advancing Nutrition Science in the United States. I learned about the report from a Tweet (X):  I wrote about an earlier draft of the report in a previous post: The federal

I’m just getting around to reading this report from three groups in the UK: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), the Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) and the Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA): Holding us back: tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food and drink. I learned about it from an article in The

The World Obesity Atlas 2023, published by World Obesity Federation, predicts that unless preventive interventions succeed, by 2035: The global economic impact of overweight and obesity will reach $4.32 trillion annually and constitute nearly 3% of global GDP. The majority—51% or more than 4

It’s a sad sign of the times that the CDC has found it necessary to revise its standard growth charts for boys and girls in order to expand Body Mass Index ranges to include current weights. The 2000 CDC BMI-for-age growth charts, based on data from 1963-1980 for most children, do not extend

Trust for America’s Health has just issued its annual report on obesity in America. The full report is here. The results are truly alarming, especially because obesity—and the conditions for which it increases risk—also increase the risk of poor Covid-19 outcome. The U.S. adult obesity rate