obesity的意思|obesity的解释-里氏词典

obesity [o'bisətɪ]

n. 肥胖

[医] 肥胖, 多脂

obesity

[ noun ]
more than average fatness
<noun.attribute>

obesity \o*bes"i*ty\, n.[L. obesitas: cf. F. ob['e]sit['e].]
The state or quality of being obese; excessive body weight;
incumbrance of flesh.

Research may provide more clues to the causes of obesity, but one fact doesn't change: To lose weight and keep it off, you must develop healthy eating and exercise habits for good, the experts say.
Eli Lilly & Co. is testing its anti-depressant drug Prozac against obesity because of its involvement with one neurotransmitter called serotonin.
"A good deal of evidence suggests that much obesity is genetic," adds Kenneth Warner, a health economist at the University of Michigan.
Most of the kiddie-food commercials "promote high-caloric density foods that may contribute to the energy imbalance that results in obesity," the academy charges.
"These products are 100% fat, and a high fat diet is unhealthy." Excess fat increases the likelihood of cancer and other chronic diseases as well as obesity, he added.
California Biotechnology Inc., Mountain View, Calif., last year created a subsidiary to work with New York-based Pfizer Inc. developing cures for diabetes and obesity.
The commission charged that Sandoz couldn't back up its claims that Optifast is superior in helping people maintain their weight loss, and that Jason Pharmaceuticals falsely claimed that its physicians were certified in the treatment of obesity.
Nevertheless, they said, the findings "are the first evidence that treatment of obesity in childhood can produce effects that persist into young adulthood." Even a clockmaker can't be expected to be on time all the time.
That data showed obesity increased by 46 percent among children and adolescents through the years, though calorie intake hadn't risen proportionally, said dietician Lilian W.Y. Cheung.
The most common problems linked with obesity include non-insulin dependent diabetes, high blood pressure, gall-bladder disease, and possibly cancer. Given the complexity of obesity, a number of different tacks have been taken.
The most common problems linked with obesity include non-insulin dependent diabetes, high blood pressure, gall-bladder disease, and possibly cancer. Given the complexity of obesity, a number of different tacks have been taken.
Two new studies of obesity and high blood pressure among children produced advice that sounds a lot like the admonitions of a strict parent: Watch what you eat and quit watching so much TV.
Scientists at Merck & Co. are developing a group of drugs that hold promise for treating eating disorders and obesity.
Edelman, 24, has been accepted into an obesity program at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City but said he doesn't want to go because the program won't accept his mother, who weighs about 400 pounds.
Rates of obesity among children and adolescents went up an average of about 45 percent between 1960 and the early 1980s, said Steven Gortmaker, acting chairman of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Harvard University.
It maintained Russell's obesity had interfered with her ability to perform certain clinical duties.
California Biotechnology spurted 1/2 to 6 1/8 on 211,200 shares after the company and Pfizer Inc. announced a $30 million, five-year joint project to treat diabetes and obesity.
But Mayer said the suit may give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration some concern about approving the drug for other uses, such as treatment of obesity or alcoholism.
And scientists are gaining a deeper understanding of the causes of obesity.
When it started, all were slim men in their early 20s with no family history of obesity.
But now they have high blood pressure, obesity and alcoholism." Adds Charlie Pepabano, executive assistant to Chisasibi Chief Violet Pachanos: "The progress was too much.
Use as a treatment for obesity, however, could produce sales many times that amount, depending on how widely Prozac would be prescribed if it receives further FDA approvals.
The incidence of childhood obesity is also on the rise, and At Last's founders say they remain the only commercial source for heavy kids' clothes.
Once you get weak, you end up going down into a chair and not being able to get back up again." Exercise also burns calories, and avoiding obesity can help prevent high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol and diabetes.
The reason for the childhood obesity is a mystery, Dr. Bernard Silverman says.
One study showed that adults who watch an hour of television a day or less have a 3 percent chance of being obese, compared to a 25 percent chance of obesity among adults who watch three hours per day.
Watch your weight (obesity is a serious health hazard).
Substantial progress can be made in the 1990s also in areas like obesity, where little improvement was made in last 10 years, said Dr. J. Michael McGinnis, director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Insurers, Mr. Singer countered, should be encouraged to use factors within the control of the insured in determining rates, such as smoking, exercise or obesity.
Heavy emphasis was placed in the report on dietary fat, which it said increases risks for obesity, some types of cancer, gallbladder and heart disease.

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