These are important issues since maternal obesity is a strong predictor of fetal insulin resistance and childhood obesity. During the same time period, both mean maternal weight at delivery and mean offspring birth weight were steadily increasing. Moreover, and on a similar trajectory, estimates of the global prevalence of this condition in children increased from 42% in 1990 to 67% in 2010. Indeed, in the United States alone, as many as one in three adult women now have a BMI greater than 30. In other words, body weight (typically expressed as body mass index (BMI): (weight kg/height metres2)) is typically and conveniently used as a surrogate for adiposity-although as an estimate of fatness, it has a considerable margin of error at the individual level.) marking the first time in human evolutionary history that the number of people with excess body weight has surpassed those who are underweight. Currently, more than half the adult population is described as overweight or obese, (Implied in the terms overweight and obese is an excess in one’s level of adiposity or percentage of body fat, not in other components of the mass that comprises their body weight such as muscle or bone density. Furthermore, as a result of fetal programming, it will likely gather momentum and become a self-perpetuating problem as a form of “inheritance of acquired characteristics” from one generation to the next. God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.īy many accounts, obesity now ranks as one of the greatest and most preventable global threats to public health. Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if We complete the review by providing evidence that what we have come to call “food addiction” may simply be a more acute and pathologically dense form of BED.
It also presents this work in the context of the modern and “toxic” food environment and therein the ubiquitous triggers for over-consumption. Therefore, this review also considers the overlapping symptoms and characteristics of binge eating disorder (BED) and models of food addiction, both in preclinical animal studies and in human research. In light of the many similarities between chronic binge eating and drug abuse, several authorities have adopted the perspective that an apparent dependence on highly palatable food-accompanied by emotional and social distress-can be best conceptualized as an addiction disorder. Further along the continuum are increasing degrees of overeating (and BMI) characterized by more severe and more compulsive ingestive behaviours. A psychobiological dimension of eating behaviour is proposed, which is anchored at the low end by energy intake that is relatively well matched to energy output and is reflected by a stable body mass index (BMI) in the healthy range.
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