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The Latest Breaking News from Obesity

UK’s soaring liver cancer death rate blamed on alcohol and obesity

Charity calls on government to do more to restrict unhealthy lifestyle choices

The Guardian - UK

Investors Seek Improved Weight-Loss Drugs With Focus On Nausea-Free Alternatives To Wegovy

Zenger

Global Pharma Has $700B For M&A And Investments – From AI To Obesity Drugs

Goldman Sachs research suggests the global pharmaceutical sector has approximately $700 billion available for M&A and investments

Zenger

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'New drugs could burn off excess fat and lead to obesity treatments to control diabetes'

Dr Miriam Stoppard shares groundbreaking work from the universities of East Anglia and Cambridge that could help develop medication to burn off excess calories from fat and sugar, which could combat obesity and related diseases

Daily Mirror

Obesity is linked to FIVE new cancers - check to see if you are at risk

Researchers from the World Health Organisation discovered obese people aged between 18 and 40 were at risk of 18 different cancers, including leukaemia and non Hodgkin lymphoma

Daily Mirror

Study reveals widely consumed vegetable oil leads to unhealthy gut

High use of soybean oil has been associated with obesity and diabetes, as well as autism, Alzheimer's disease, anxiety, and depression. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Scientists find mistake in young life is linked to 40 cancers

There is a link to breast, bowel, kidney and pancreatic cancer as well as leukaemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and bladder, head and neck cancers

Wales Online

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Being overweight ‘linked to 18 cancers’ in under-40s

Adults are encouraged to keep their weight at normal levels to help ward off various different cancers

The Independent UK

Excess weight in under-40s ‘linked to 18 cancers’ – study

Adults are encouraged to keep their weight at normal levels to help ward off various different cancers.

The Independent UK

London theatre show’s cake poster falls foul of junk food ad rules

Theatre boss calls TfL decision ‘ridiculous’ after poster found to breach rules aimed at tackling obesity

The Guardian - UK

'Why the Welsh Government is bang on to impose their restrictions on meal deals'

People have got very angry about it but it is a sensible policy to combat a real crisis

Wales Online

Scientists call for obesity to be renamed to improve treatment

‘Adequately addressing the disease requires distinguishing it clearly and unambiguously from high BMI’

The Independent UK

Four new CSIR-CFTRI’s technologies released in Mysuru

In the last seven decades, the Mysuru-based CSIR-CFTRI has developed nearly 400 technologies and over 4,500 licencees’ commercialised several technologies that were transferred to them by the premier institute.

The Hindu

Lisa Jarvis: Eli Lilly’s new weight-loss drug is even better than Ozempic

New data from an experimental drug being developed by Eli Lilly & Co. raises an intriguing question about obesity treatments: How low can the weight loss go?

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Fortune

How drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy work for weight loss: 'Food tastes good, but I don't want it'

The mental distraction of feeling compelled to eat gets quieter.

Inverse

Doctors Want to Get Rid of This Controversial Health Metric — But Will It Actually Work?

A new policy creates an important opportunity to review the current use of BMI in healthcare settings.

Chronicle Live

All over 40s in England to be sent health test for them to take at home

It has been claimed that each test will save 20 minutes of NHS time and will help reduce heart disease and obesity

Liverpool Echo

Michael Mosley shares three foods to 'avoid' if you want to lose weight

He also hit out at two types of foods he believes "could be to blame for the obesity crisis"

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Zenger

Even Light Drinking Poses Risk Of Obesity And Diabetes, Study Finds

New research shows one or two drinks a day increases risk, especially in women

The Guardian - UK

Wales to clamp down on junk food meal deals to tackle obesity

Welsh government says it will go further than UK government’s plans for England in trying to encourage healthier eating

Wales Online

Wales is to ban some food items from meal deals and tell supermarkets where they can display treats

The Welsh Government will also bring in restrictions on where certain foods can be placed in a supermarket as part of its plan to tackle obesity and unhealthy eating

The Independent UK

Restriction on high fat, sugar and salt products to fight Welsh ‘obesity crisis’

Legislation is aimed to bring the country in line with England.

The Conversation

Body mass index: why practitioners are relying on it less when looking at a patient’s health

Body mass index has long been used by doctors as the standard method for measuring health – and often still is. But earlier this month, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a new policy that cautions medical professionals from using the body mass index (BMI) as a stand-alone clinical tool…

The Conversation

BMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure for weight management – an obesity medicine physician explains the seismic shift taking place

Amid the buzz around weight loss drugs and rising rates of obesity worldwide, many health care professionals are questioning one of the key measures that has long been used to define obesity.

The Guardian - UK

How sugar became the scapegoat for society’s ills – from austerity to the cost of living crisis

In the absence of proper policy, ‘the war on obesity’ always needs something – or someone – to blame for its failures, says author Karen Throsby

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