That's especially true for children, who are gaining weight in epidemic numbers, particularly in minority communities.
Now, 30-something years later, the average 9-year-old understands calorie-counting, yet a near obsession level with the content of food only seems to be feeding the weight gain epidemic.
Therefore, to gain better knowledge about the weight gain epidemic and its adverse effect on MetS parameters, we believe that investigations stratified by gender need to be conducted.
Dietary changes towards higher in fats and calories and increasing physical inactivity have been driving progressive increase of weight and epidemic of obesity among Chinese children after the economic transition [ 23].
For my book, "Lying in Weight: the Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women, I interviewed Tracy, 43, who for decades vacillated between alcoholism and bulimia, recently settling on a mild version of the latter.
But it would also make mass immunisations far more complicated in the worst-affected countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where weak health systems have all but collapsed under the weight of the epidemic.
We treat excess weight gain as an epidemic disease that spreads via social contact.
Unfortunately, the evidence massive weight gain, an obesity epidemic, a shorter life span for this generation's children demonstrates that many people find that to be impossible.
And then there are miscellaneous new words such as "globesity" (referring to a worldwide epidemic of weight gain) and "locavore" (someone who only eats local produce).
