Is Obesity Really a Disease?

Is obesity really a disease?

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It will also open new doors to resources and treatments directed at the problem. According to Health Canada, one in four adults is now defined as obese. Statistics Canada reports that 19 per cent of males and 21 per cent of females between the ages of …
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Hooked by design

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Internet-café gambling has become such a problem that it's now recognized in the same category as drug and alcohol addiction by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, consulted by medical and treatment professionals. Café betting …
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Attention turns to softer ways of dealing with addiction

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The central point, according to Wilson Compton, head of epidemiology and prevention research at the US National Institute on Drug Abuse, is that “addictions are a brain disease involving reward, memory and control circuits. “Long-lasting brain changes …
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