A new federal analysis shows that the adult obesity epidemic in the United States keeps on getting worse. Between 2007 and 2016, the percentage of the adult population that was obese increased from an already very high 33.7 percent to a staggering 39.6 percent. And the rate of those severely obese increased from just under […]
Category: weight gain
In Practice: What I Learned from Weighing Myself (Almost) Every Day
by Hank Dart In my many years of writing about and promoting healthy behaviors, I’m happy to say that I’ve at least tried to put into practice just about everything I’ve espoused. Of course, like many people, my success at doing so can be uneven. Some behaviors I do pretty well with – like exercise, […]
Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center: 25 Years of Progress on the Links Between Overweight and Cancer
At today’s annual symposium of the Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center (BNORC), CNiC’s Dr. Graham Colditz delivered a plenary session talk reviewing BNOCR’s 25-year contribution to the science on obesity and cancer. A past associate director of the Center, Colditz also paid tribute to groundbreaking nutrition researcher, George Blackburn, who passed away in February 2017 […]
12 Little Things That Can Put a Hitch in Your Efforts to Keep Weight in Check – And Ways to Fix Them
by Hank Dart Even in the middle of the roiling media cycle we’re in, diet has still managed to break through and make headlines the past couple weeks. Probably the biggest recent story was the release of a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found that around 40 – 50 percent […]
Compelling Evidence on Overweight & Cancer Compels Action
An editorial published in today’s British Medical Journal (BMJ) by Cancer News in Context’s Yikung Park and Graham Colditz makes the strong case that it’s time to take action to combat weight-related cancers. The editorial addresses a new “umbrella review,” also published in the BMJ today, that found strong evidence that overweight and obesity increases the risk of 11 […]
Large-Scale Problem: Obesity Rates Still Increasing in Certain Groups
by Hank Dart The course of the obesity epidemic in the United States has been so bad for so many years that even minor victories have been cause for celebration. But despite some bright spots in the most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports on national rates of obesity (on adults, on youth), […]
Weighing Evidence: Obesity and Breast Cancer Risk Across Life
by Hank Dart In a paper published yesterday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, Cancer News in Context’s Graham Colditz and Washington University researcher, Kelle Moley, detail the important role that overweight and obesity play in the development of breast cancer. Looking at wide-ranging evidence at all periods of life — from gestation to the […]
Unwrapping Holiday Weight Gain – and Ways to Prevent It
by Hank Dart We’re in the middle of it now. The holiday season – that wonderful and stressful five-week stretch from Thanksgiving to New Year’s where at every turn, there seems to be food. And not just everyday food, but food of such amounts and enticing types that it can feel nearly impossible at times […]
9 Days of Practical Steps to Prevent Breast Cancer: Day 1 – Keep Weight in Check
We know. You’ve been awash in pink for the past three weeks. So you’re forgiven if you’re a bit tired of reading about breast cancer and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But, we at Cancer News in Context hope to help you work past any late October doldrums by closing the month out with an engaging […]
Time on the Side: New Analysis Finds That to Eat Less – Eat Slower
Photo: Flickr/thomashawk It probably comes as no surprise, but mom was right: We really shouldn’t eat so fast. Apart from the noise and the mess and the ill-effects on dinner table conversation, wolfing down food may have ill-effects on health as well. A detailed new analysis in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that […]
Setting the Record Straight: The Impact of Diet on Cancer Risk
Photo: Flickr/Mike65444 An article posted earlier this week on the New York Times website stated that the link between diet and cancer risk was, in essence, a “myth.” And while links between diet and cancer are not as strong as those with some other chronic diseases, like heart disease, the article’s conclusions demonstrate a lack […]
Healthy Eating: Focus on Every Day, not Thanksgiving Day
Tara Parker-Pope wrote an interesting post yesterday on the New York Times’ Thanksgiving Help Line about the commonly thrown around stat that the average person consumes 4500 calories in the course of Thanksgiving Day. In the piece, she works at length itemizing what 4500 calories would actually look like – choosing many fat and sugar-laden […]
The Long Haul: New Study Suggests Specific Protein & Carbs Combo May Help Keep Weight Off
As anyone who’s ever been on a diet knows: taking the pounds off can be hard, but keeping the pounds off can be even harder. The main reason for this simply seems to be that it’s just easier to keep up with a new exercise and diet program over the short term than it is […]
That beer belly may be worse than you thought
That obesity had deleterious health consequences isn’t news, especially around here. Yet, we still find the results of a study out of Australia, published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention this week on weight gain and colon cancer risk compelling. Most adults experience weight gain over the course of their lives and this weight gain, […]