Tackling Obesity – are we nearly there yet?
New article: Models of obesity for tackling common obesity Stanley Ulijaszek
New article by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek in Science Translation Medicine
"Tackling common obesity rests on having models of obesity that can be effectively translated into models for intervention; are we nearly there yet?”
For over 30 years, since it became an area of concern for governments, common obesity has proved difficult to tackle. The wide range of factors that contribute to common obesity make modelling essential to developing effective interventions. In this article, Professor Stanley Ulijaszek questions the reliance on the widely used energy balance model and explores the recently developed carbohydrate-insulin model (CIM) of obesity. He examines the role of ultra processed food as factor in common obesity and highlights the need for political will for regulation and to mitigate against the socio-economic factors that play such a key role in common obesity.
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The article comes ahead of Professor’s Ulijaszek’s new book, Understanding Obesity for release in February 2024.
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek is Emeritus Professor of Human Ecology within the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. His research interests include patterns of human growth and development as markers of well-being, the relationships between nutrition and reproduction in tropical seasonal environments, and the effects of economic modernisation on nutritional health. He is Director of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity.
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