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ArticleObesity facts2024

Perspective: Do Scientists Become Part of the Obesity Problem?

Manfred J Müller, Anja Bosy-Westphal, Jonathan C K Wells

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Article in Obesity facts, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Manfred J MüllerInstitute of Human Nutrition and Food Science, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
Anja Bosy-WestphalInstitute of Human Nutrition and Food Science, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, abosyw@nutrition.uni-kiel.de.
Jonathan C K WellsPopulation Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department, Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity is fundamentally a condition where physiology and behavior of individuals meet the environment, and the emerging global obesity pandemic reflects the contribution of a wide range of cultural, societal, economic and systemic driving forces. Today, different areas of obesity research are relatively separated from each other in discrete silos, with biomedical research determining most of our understanding and solution strategies. This has led to the Y in the road, which means the questionable assumption that effective drug treatment of individual patients is also an effective measure to improve population health. Since human obesity is a condition of population health and planetary impact a better integration of biomedical and public health approaches is based on critical (self-)reflection and communicative understanding of scientists from various research areas who should be on an equal footing.

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Biomedical ResearchObesityHumansPublic HealthBody weight controlFood systemNon-communicable diseasesObesityPlanetary health

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PMID38705137
PMCPMC11299962

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