All Articles on Obesity
Do Coke-funded obesity messages leave a bad taste?Group Health Physician and GHRI Associate Investigator Beverly Green, MD, MPH, weighs in on obesity advice from a group sponsored by Coca-Cola.
Learning the benefits and costs of surgery for obesityDr. David Arterburn has new studies on the costs, care variation, and effect on life expectancy of bariatric surgery. The results could guide obesity care.
Is obesity an environmental issue?Ecology, as well as politics, economics, and culture contribute to obesity, according to this review of Julie Guthman's book Weighing In.
Older people can learn to spend less time sitting downCoaching helped Kaiser Permanente patients sit half hour less per day in pilot study.
- Standing up for my health
What it was like for a Group Health patient to participate in a study that coached him to sit less.
- Surgery for obesity is linked to longer survival
JAMA study focuses mostly on male VA patients with more diseases than in prior studies.
- Video: New research on bariatric surgery for obesity
GHRI's Dr. David Arterburn talks about bariatric surgery research in December 2014.
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