The unsustainability of obesity: Metabolic food waste

The obesity burden, with 1.5 billion overweight and 500 million obese worldwide, significantly increased the risk for degenerative diseases. Excessive consumption of foods that are energy dense lead to obesity, which represents a titanic cost for not only the world’s health systems but also a substa...

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Main Authors: Mauro Serafini, Elisabetta Toti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Nutrition
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnut.2016.00040/full