The Connection Between Obesity And Type 2 Diabetes
Unlike Juvenile, or type 1 diabetes, which occurs in children, type 2 diabetes usually occurs later in life. For that reason, it is often called “adult-onset diabetes.” There is a well-established connection between being overweight or obese and developing the disease. In people with too much body fat, the fat can cling to the pancreas […]
World Obesity Day 2021
Image taken from https://www.worldobesityday.org/ Held on the 4th of March, did you know for this year’s World Obesity Day, the mission is to help people understand the scale and impact of obesity around the world? To date, 800 million people around the world are living with obesity (that’s almost 130 times the population of Singapore) and […]
Medical Innovations in Obesity
Obesity has been a worldwide epidemic for the last few decards. This growing disease is now more prevalent among the young. Above a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 25 is the definition of being overweight. Further, a BMI of above 35 has been classified as being morbidly obese. In the smaller-built Asians, this has been […]
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