Month: September 2022

TOBACCO LEADS. "Despite the huge growth in junk food sales, the three biggest suppliers to Australian supermarkets are British American Tobacco, Philip Morris and Imperial Tobacco Australia, which provide a combined $8.4 billion of annual revenue. That dwarfs the annual contribution of multinationals such as Nestle ($2 billion), Coca-Cola Amatil ($2 billion) and Unilever ($1.5 billion)." https://lnkd.in/dryJsJv View in LinkedIn

SNACK FOOD NATION. "America has become a snack food nation. More than ever, "meals" are being consumed behind the wheel of a car ... "Dashboard dining". http://www.newsweek.com/bring-junk-food-161601 View in LinkedIn

WORLDWIDE OBESITY DOUBLES. "Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. In 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these over 600 million were obese. 42 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2013." https://lnkd.in/db6_hrx View in LinkedIn

OBESITY OVERLOAD. "Look at the waistlines of America, and you can see snacking is a growth business," says John McMillin, food analyst for Prudential Securities. The rate of obesity in the United States soared by 50 percent in the last decade, with nearly one in five Americans now seriously overweight. Poor diet and lack of exercise is second only to cigarette smoking as a leading cause of death in America." http://www.newsweek.com/bring-junk-food-161601 View in LinkedIn

US PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTER. "Two out of three adults and one out of three children in the United States are overweight or obese, and the nation spends an estimated $190 billion a year treating obesity-related health conditions." http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/sugary-drinks-fact-sheet/ View in LinkedIn

NO LONGER A SOCIAL STIGMA. "Obesity is not a social stigma but an actual disease." https://lnkd.in/des_Tnv View in LinkedIn

MEDICAL OPINION SWINGS. "The AMA is just the latest organization to put obesity in its category of diseases, joining the World Health Organization, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, and others." https://lnkd.in/d6WkEAC View in LinkedIn

OBESITY AND SEQUELAE. "The simple fact is that obesity is a disease, a chronic, frequently progressive, and rarely remitting disorder that triggers an additional 65 or more other conditions ranging from arthritis and sleep apnea to many forms of cancer." (Lee M. Kaplan, M.D., director of the Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and chairman emeritus of the Campaign to End Obesity). https://lnkd.in/dxdw6TP View in LinkedIn

OBESITY AS A DISEASE. "Obesity, like alcoholism, depression, and anxiety, is a disease. There are definite medical patterns: hormone imbalances, neurotransmitter deficiencies and nutritional exhaustion that all contribute to obesity. Many of my patients that are obese have underlying medical issues that need to be addressed." https://lnkd.in/d-Du5bB View in LinkedIn

US LIFESTYLE FAILURE. "Stress, the standard American diet and the industrialization of food have all been blamed in the obesity epidemic. While all of these factors contribute to being obese, they also create critical biological imbalances that people cannot overcome." https://lnkd.in/d-Du5bB View in LinkedIn