Um corpo maior não significa necessariamente que você tenha “obesidade clínica”, de acordo com uma nova definição proposta para a doença.
- Adjunct Professor, Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
A larger body doesn’t necessarily mean you have ‘clinical obesity’, according to a proposed new definition of the disease.
Of the 22,713 weight loss operations performed in 2014-15, about 90% were performed in private hospitals, highlighting the difficulty in accessing this type of surgery through the public system.
A new way of looking at what’s behind chronic disease takes into account social, environmental and other factors, rather than blaming individuals.
A new compound that leads to weight loss in obese mice could help in the development of a new class of anti-obesity drugs for humans, scientists say – though this could take many years. The drug works…
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