The prevalence of child and adolescent obesity has plateaued at high levels in most high-
income countries and is increasing in many low-income and middle-income countries …

The prevalence of obesity has reached pandemic proportions, and now approximately 25%
of adults in Westernized countries have obesity. Recognized as a major health concern …

There is a genetic component to human obesity that accounts for 40% to 50% of the
variability in body weight status but that is lower among normal weight individuals (about …

Stress and other negative emotions, such as depression and anxiety, can lead to both
decreased and increased food intake. The term 'emotional eating'has been widely used to …

Obesity is in theory defined on the basis of the excess health risk caused by adiposity
exceeding the size normally found in the population, but for practical reasons, the World …

We propose a model for obesity development that traces a considerable part of its origins to
the social domain (mainly different forms of prolonged social adversity), both within and …

The genetic background of childhood body mass index (BMI), and the extent to which the
well-known associations of childhood BMI with adult diseases are explained by shared …

From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and
severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of …

Obesity contributes substantially to the global burden of disease and has a significant
heritable component. Recent large-scale exome sequencing studies identified several …

Genome-wide discovery efforts have identified more than 500 genetic loci associated with
adiposity traits. The vast majority of these loci were found through large-scale meta-analyses …