Obesity and diabetes mellitus have reached epidemic proportions in the past few years.
During 2011 to 2012, more than one-third of the US population was obese. Although recent …

Low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) face a rapid change in the nutrition transition
toward increases in noncommunicable diseases. Underlying this transition are shifts in the …

Decades ago, discussion of an impending global pandemic of obesity was thought of as
heresy. But in the 1970s, diets began to shift towards increased reliance upon processed …

Background Self-rated health (SRH), a subjective assessment of health status, is extensively
used in the public health field. However, whether SRH can reflect the objective health status …

Disparities in dietary behaviors have been directly linked to the food environment, including
access to retail food outlets. The Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has …

An adequate dentition is of importance for well‐being and life quality. Despite advances in
preventive dentistry, edentulism is still a major public health problem worldwide. In this …

Importance Many changes in the economy, policies related to nutrition, and food processing
have occurred within the United States since 2000, and the net effect on dietary quality is not …

Analyses of economic and food availability data for 1962–1994 reveal a major shift in the
structure of the global diet marked by an uncoupling of the classic relationship between …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and
poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable …

Medicine and epidemiology currently dominate the study of the strong association between
socioeconomic status and mortality. Socioeconomic status typically is viewed as a causally …