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An excellent article about the cause of obesity by Simpson and Raubenheimer from 2005 with more than 300 citations: https://www.swissmilk.ch/fr/services/professionnels-de-la-sante/materiel-dinformation/low-carb-plus/-dl-/fileadmin/filemount/k/simpson-05-obesity-the-protein-leverage-hypothesis.pdf

Obesity 49.36.209.64 (talk) 07:45, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Obesity in teenagers is also something that needs attention. The importance of a personal approach in treating obesity and hypertension in adolescents. Understanding that factors such as gender, age and living environment play an important role in nutritional status and blood pressure allows for interventions that are more effective and tailored to the needs of each adolescent. More information about this topic https://doi.org/10.20473/jn.v19i2.51916 FIn4nwatin (talk) 04:38, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Should WHtR be mentioned as an alternative for BMI?
• Should the body roundness calculator be included?
• Should the BMI have its own calulator, sharing variable height with the WHtR calculator?
• Should it be one calculator, computing both BMI and WHtR?

Uwappa (talk) 09:13, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This report result needs to be edited in here by someone knowledgeable: BBC, Nature. Essentially, it is to consider two types of obesity: preclinical obesity, when a person has extra body fat but their organs work normally, and clinical obesity, when excess fat harms the body’s organs and tissues. Onanoff (talk) 15:16, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

All recommendations presented in this Commission have been agreed with the highest level of consensus among the commissioners (grade of agreement 90–100%) and have been endorsed by 76 organisations worldwide, including scientific societies and patient advocacy groups.

This looks like a great source. They've done a lot of work to define obesity as a disease (clinical obesity) vs. as a phenotype (preclinical obesity), which helps meet a need that we have had for more clear language to discuss obesity, and they have assembled an impressive list of organizations that have endorsed these recommended definitions (ADA, AHA, EASD, WOF, etc.)

It has an extensive discussion surrounding the controversy over whether to classify obesity as a disease in it of itself. A few lines summarizing the main points should be included in the classification section.

We can also use their section "Clinical manifestations of organ dysfunction directly caused by obesity in adults" to expand our "Effects on health" section which currently primarily discusses obesity as a risk factor for diseases, with limited discussion of the direct harmful effects of obesity. Photos of Japan (talk) 05:38, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]