The worldwide obesity epidemic.

By P. T. James, R. Leach, E. Kalamara, M. Shayeghi. Obesity Research, 2001

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Subfields: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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• Biological, physiological, pathophysiological, and pharmacological aspects of ghrelin. (2004, background): “This function, which may have been developed by evolutionary selection processes for survival in times of reduced caloric supply, now still promotes a positive energy balance, although obesity, and not starvation-induced cachexia, is today’s predominant nutrition-related disorder in industrialized c”
• Childhood overweight, obesity, and the metabolic syndrome in developing countries. (2007, background): “However, in a number of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and Central/Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, levels are as high as they are in the United States (33).”
• Measurement and Definitions of Obesity In Childhood and Adolescence: A field guide for the uninitiated (2007, neutral): “to its metabolic consequences [71].”