Boulos, Maged N Kamel, and Koh, Keumseok. “Smart City Lifestyle Sensing, Big Data, Geo-Analytics and Intelligence for Smarter Public Health Decision-Making in Overweight, Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Prevention: the Research We Should Be Doing” International journal of health geographics, vol. 20, no. 1, 2021. Web.
This article concentrates on modern ways of preventing and controlling overweight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. It underlines the complexity of the problem of excessive weight and the necessity to use a systems thinking approach, based on recent achievements in sensors, big data, and related technologies. The author claims that for improving the health situation in any country, it is useful to create a comprehensive list of population lifestyle data relevant to the study area and study population. Moreover, the work sheds light on genetic causes of overweight and obesity and risk factors.
To my mind, this article is valuable because it proposes quite an innovative approach to solving the problem of overweight and obesity. The authors go further fixed beliefs about being healthy, such as eating more fruit and vegetables and exercising regularly. They put forward a plausible hypothesis that these measures are not efficient enough because different people and population groups respond differently to the same food and PA environments. I can benefit from this article by including in my work not only established truths about healthy nutrition and sport but also these groundbreaking ideas.
Jonas, Bovijn, et al. “Causal Relationships between Obesity and the Leading Causes of Death in Women and Men”. PLoS Genetics, vol. 15, no. 10, 2019, pp. 1-22. Web.
This article is an in-depth analysis of possible obesity consequences, mainly cardiometabolic diseases. The authors study the connection between obesity and the major causes of death using such indicators as body mass index (BMI), waist-hip ratio (WHR), and WHR adjusted for BMI, which allows them to get precise results. The article is filled with calculations that become a solid foundation for the authors’ conclusions. They also try to assess how obesity traits affect disease risk differently in men and women, which is quite an unexplored issue.
I find this article helpful because it provides credible information about the results obesity may lead to. The work findings highlight the importance of enhanced preventative measures and timely treatment of obesity-related disorders. This is consistent with my aim of raising awareness about this global problem. When people get to know that obesity is causally implicated in the etiology of two-thirds of the globally leading causes of death from non-communicable diseases, it may stimulate them to pay more attention to their health. Thus, the facts from this article may be an addition to my work showing the seriousness of the issue.
Paolicelli, Courtney Winston. Weight Management and Obesity. Momentum Press, 2016.
This book is divided into chapters studying fundamentals of nutrition, factors contributing to overweight and obesity, health consequences of obesity, and possible ways of weight loss intervention. It examines the concept of long-term weight management, which is safer and more effective than fast diets. The recommendations listed in the book may be helpful not only for people having excessive weight wishing to become healthier but also for those who want to prevent overweight, obesity, and chronic diseases related to them.
For me, this book may serve as a complete guide to the problem of excessive weight. It discloses many essential concepts for controlling or reducing weight, such as calorie balance and behavior modification. The book provides credible information that can be useful for all parts of my work, such as the etiology of weight gain and the outcomes of obesity. Moreover, it refers to long-term weight management, which seems to be the key to avoid overweight and obesity and maintain wellbeing. Therefore, I think that this book’s use may be appropriate while gathering evidence for my work.