ReviewHormone and metabolic research = Hormon- und Stoffwechselforschung = Hormones et metabolisme2021
Climate Change and Obesity.
Review in Hormone and metabolic research = Hormon- und Stoffwechselforschung = Hormones et metabolisme, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 64 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mediterranean Diet, Obesity-Related Metabolic Cardiovascular Disorders, and Environmental Sustainability: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Focus of Sustainable Healthy Diets Interventions in Primary School-Aged Children: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- Gender differences and climate zones in overweight and obesity prevalence in European elementary school children from 2000 to 2020: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Seasonal Variation in Metabolic Syndrome and Its Association With Meteorological Factors: A Large Population-Based Study in Fukushima, 2012-2022.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2026Article
- Weight Bias Interventions for Healthcare Professionals: An Integrative Review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Review
- Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on children, climate change, and infectious threats.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- The burden of disease attributable to high body mass index across Arab countries: an analysis of data from the global burden of disease study 2021.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Climate Change, Air Pollution and the Global Obesity Syndemic: a Review of Current Evidence.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- A Hypothesis on the Historical Development of Obesity that is Not Only About Food.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- Comprehending the Epidemiology and Aetiology of Childhood Obesity: Integrating Life Course Approaches for Prevention and Intervention.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2025Review
- Global warming and obesity: External heat exposure as a modulator of energy balance.FASEB bioAdvances · 2025Review
- Perceptions of Endocrine Clinicians Regarding Climate Change and Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Effect of ambient temperature on overweight: direct and indirect pathways in a multiple mediation model.Cadernos de saude publica · 2025Article
- Prevalence patterns of overweight and obesity in the world: An age-period-cohort analysis.PloS one · 2025Article
- On the pathogenesis of obesity: causal models and missing pieces of the puzzle.Nature metabolism · 2024Review
- An Affordable and Sustainable Thrifty-Like Meal Plan, FoodRx, That Meets the Recommended Dietary Allowances.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2024Article
- The need for increasing pediatric obesity advocacy.Complementary therapies in medicine · 2024Article
- Prescribing sustainability: should UN sustainable development goals be part of the medical, pharmacy, and biomedical education?Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- A Review of the Role of Built Environment and Temperature in the Development of Childhood Obesity.Cureus · 2023Review
- Sex, Nutrition, and NAFLD: Relevance of Environmental Pollution.Nutrients · 2023Review
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Global warming and the rising prevalence of obesity are well described challenges of current mankind. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic arose as a new challenge. We here attempt to delineate their relationship with each other from our perspective. Global greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels have exponentially increased since 1950. The main contributors to such greenhouse gas emissions are manufacturing and construction, transport, residential, commercial, agriculture, and land use change and forestry, combined with an increasing global population growth from 1 billion in 1800 to 7.8 billion in 2020 along with rising obesity rates since the 1980s. The current Covid-19 pandemic has caused some decline in greenhouse gas emissions by limiting mobility globally via repetitive lockdowns. Following multiple lockdowns, there was further increase in obesity in wealthier populations, malnutrition from hunger in poor populations and death from severe infection with Covid-19 and its virus variants. There is a bidirectional relationship between adiposity and global warming. With rising atmospheric air temperatures, people typically will have less adaptive thermogenesis and become less physically active, while they are producing a higher carbon footprint. To reduce obesity rates, one should be willing to learn more about the environmental impact, how to minimize consumption of energy generating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, and to reduce food waste. Diets lower in meat such as a Mediterranean diet, have been estimated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 72%, land use by 58%, and energy consumption by 52%.
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