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⚖️ Underweight children cost NHS as much per child as children with obesity, study finds
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-underweight-children-nhs-child-obesity.html

Underweight children cost NHS as much per child as children with obesity, study finds
The NHS incurs an estimated £340 million in additional health care costs annually due to weight-related health problems in children—but it is not just obesity driving the costs. New research from the University of Oxford reveals that underweight children need comparable medical support as those who are severely obese, challenging assumptions about childhood health priorities.

Trump Says U.S. Visas Can Be Denied to Fat People From Now On (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/202898/trump-us-visas-deny-fat-people-obesity
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p18#a251109p18

Here's yet another step in the emasculation of Congress.
Here El Cheato is running a protection racket in which he imposes high tariffs but then offers relief to from those tariffs to companies that jump to a Cheato's tune-of-the-day, in this case, a reduction in certain drug prices under Medicare (presumably Part D?)
Congress should be setting these policies and doing so in a way available to all drug makers, not just certain ones favored by Cheato. But no, Congress jus…

Certain obesity drugs will cost as little as $149 and Medicare will start covering them under White House deals
Certain blockbuster obesity drugs will be available for as little as $149 per month and more Medicare enrollees will have access to them under two deals announced Thursday by the Trump administration.

Obesity Drugs May Drop to as Little as $150 a Month (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/health/obesity-drug-prices-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p79#a251106p79

What Trump's New Drug Pricing Deal Means for People With Obesity (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/health/trump-obesity-drug-prices-explainer.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p137#a251106p137

COBRA: Multimodal Sensing Deep Learning Framework for Remote Chronic Obesity Management via Wrist-Worn Activity Monitoring
Zhengyang Shen (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK), Bo Gao (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK), Mayue Shi (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK)

COBRA: Multimodal Sensing Deep Learning Framework for Remote Chronic Obesity Management via Wrist-Worn Activity Monitoring
Chronic obesity management requires continuous monitoring of energy balance behaviors, yet traditional self-reported methods suffer from significant underreporting and recall bias, and difficulty in integration with modern digital health systems. This study presents COBRA (Chronic Obesity Behavioral Recognition Architecture), a novel deep learning framework for objective behavioral monitoring using wrist-worn multimodal sensors. COBRA integrates a hybrid D-Net architecture combining U-Net spati…

Det som förra vintern kunde anas som ett trendbrott verkar nu bli mer tydligt. Fetman har minskat i USA och fetmamedicinerna är av allt att döma orsaken.
Obesity Rate Declining in U.S. https://news.gallup.com/poll/696599/obesity-rate-declining.aspx

Obesity & diet
I wouldn't normally share a positive story about the new diet drugs, because I've seen someone get obsessed with them who was at a perfectly acceptable weight *by majority standards* (surprise: every weight is in fact perfectly acceptable by *objective* standards, because every "weight-associated" health risk is its own danger that should be assessed *in individuals*). I think two almost-contradictory things:
1. In a society shuddering under the burden of metastasized fatmisia, there's a very real danger in promoting the new diet drugs because lots of people who really don't need them will be psychologically bullied into using them and suffer from the cost and/or side effects.
2. For many individuals under the assault of our society's fatmisia, "just ignore it" is not a sufficient response, and also for specific people for whom decreasing their weight can address *specific* health risks/conditions that they *want* to address that way, these drugs can be a useful tool.
I know @… to be a trustworthy & considerate person, so I think it's responsible to share this:
#Fat #Diet #Obesity

Left-lateralized reduced white matter structural connectivity in young women with obesity: analysis of graph theory applied to inter-tract correlation matrices
Jos\'e Gerardo Su\'arez-Garc\'ia, Eduardo Moreno-Barbosa, Javier M. Hern\'andez-L\'opez, Jorge Vel\'azquez-Castro, Benito de Celis-Alonso
https://arxiv.org/a…

Left-lateralized reduced white matter structural connectivity in young women with obesity: analysis of graph theory applied to inter-tract correlation matrices
Objective: Differences in WM structural connectivity were sought by comparing graph measures from young women with normal weight ($D_\mathrm{norm}$) and obesity ($D_\mathrm{over}$), studying FA-based inter-tract correlation matrices. Methods: Undirected binary adjacency matrices were created from WM inter-tract correlation matrices. Sixteen global graph measures were compared between the $D_\mathrm{norm}$ and $D_\mathrm{over}$ groups. At the nodal level, four graph measures were compared. Opt…

White House nears deal to lower obesity drug prices for Medicare coverage (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11/04/ozempic-wegovy-zepbound-price-medicare-deal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p116#a251104p116

🔥 Novel way to 'rev up' brown fat burns calories, limits obesity in mice
#biology

Novel way to 'rev up' brown fat burns calories, limits obesity in mice
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a novel way brown fat—an energy-burning form of fat—can rev the body's metabolic engine, consuming cellular fuel and producing heat in a way that improves metabolic health. The study, in mice, reveals new avenues to exploit brown fat to treat metabolic diseases, such as insulin resistance and obesity.

We have raspberries growing. When we lived in Seattle we grew kale and picked wild blackberries. All were so much better than anything you get in a grocery store.
I don't eat a lot of fruit these days because its so disappointing to take a bite out of a bland or bitter berry from a plastic carton..
https://m…

Deep-learning-based Radiomics on Mitigating Post-treatment Obesity for Pediatric Craniopharyngioma Patients after Surgery and Proton Therapy
Wenjun Yang, Chia-Ho Hua, Tina Davis, Jinsoo Uh, Thomas E. Merchant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20732

Deep-learning-based Radiomics on Mitigating Post-treatment Obesity for Pediatric Craniopharyngioma Patients after Surgery and Proton Therapy
Purpose: We developed an artificial neural network (ANN) combining radiomics with clinical and dosimetric features to predict the extent of body mass index (BMI) increase after surgery and proton therapy, with advantage of improved accuracy and integrated key feature selection. Methods and Materials: Uniform treatment protocol composing of limited surgery and proton radiotherapy was given to 84 pediatric craniopharyngioma patients (aged 1-20 years). Post-treatment obesity was classified into 3 …

Modeling Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Obesity in Italian Regions Via Bayesian Beta Regression
Luciano Rota, Raffaele Argiento, Michela Cameletti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05719 …

Modeling Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Obesity in Italian Regions Via Bayesian Beta Regression
In this paper we investigate the spatio-temporal dynamics of obesity rates across Italian regions from 2010 to 2022, aiming to identify spatial and temporal trends and assess potential heterogeneities. We implement a Bayesian hierarchical Beta regression model to analyze regional obesity rates, integrating spatial and temporal random effects, alongside gender and various exogenous predictors. The model leverages the Stochastic Search Variable Selection technique to identify significant predicto…

👯‍♂️ Not all calories are equal: Ultra-processed foods can harm men's health
#food

Not all calories are equal: Ultra-processed foods can harm men's health
Over the past 50 years, rates of obesity and type-2 diabetes have soared, while sperm quality has plummeted. Driving these changes could be the increasing popularity of ultra-processed foods, which have been linked to a range of poor health outcomes. However, scientists still aren't sure whether it's the industrial nature of the ingredients themselves, the processing of the foods, or whether it's because they lead people to eat more than they should.