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Obscurity on Obesity
Much research is underway on the links between diet and obesity. So too are long-running disputes among nutritionists on core questions about the relationship. This editorial reviews the state-of-play on four issues: what makes people fat, how to lose weight, how much do we eat, and what policies to...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289388/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25156753 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-12-114 |
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| description | Much research is underway on the links between diet and obesity. So too are long-running disputes among nutritionists on core questions about the relationship. This editorial reviews the state-of-play on four issues: what makes people fat, how to lose weight, how much do we eat, and what policies to adopt towards obesity. The practical consequence is that, at present, frontline health professionals will not find in nutrition science agreed, actionable solutions to assist overweight patients. But research and debate continues actively. |
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| spelling | pubmed-42893882015-01-11 Obscurity on Obesity Winkler, Jack BMC Med Editorial Much research is underway on the links between diet and obesity. So too are long-running disputes among nutritionists on core questions about the relationship. This editorial reviews the state-of-play on four issues: what makes people fat, how to lose weight, how much do we eat, and what policies to adopt towards obesity. The practical consequence is that, at present, frontline health professionals will not find in nutrition science agreed, actionable solutions to assist overweight patients. But research and debate continues actively. BioMed Central 2014-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4289388/ /pubmed/25156753 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-12-114 Text en © Winkler; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
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| title | Obscurity on Obesity |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289388/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25156753 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-12-114 |
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