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Sunday, January 31st, 2016

NASH Is the 21st Century’s Looming Public Health Threat

Author:     Kira Peikoff
Source:     Newsweek
Publication Date:     1/30/16 at 2:50 PM
Link: NASH Is the 21st Century’s Looming Public Health Threat
Stephan:   Here is an urgent report about an illness I had never heard of and that about 8 per cent of the American population may have. NASH. Ever heard of it? Neither had I. Like so many illnesses in the modern world it is the result of the obesity epidemic that is transforming American culture and healthcare. This report lays out the issue.
An obese woman swims in a swimming pool. Doctors say that the incidence of NASH has exploded in the last two decades thanks in part to the growing prevalence of obesity; though there are currently no medicines on the market to combat the disease (an opportunity several pharmaceutical companies hope to capitalize on), exercise and weight loss represents one of the most reliable ways to reverse the progression of the disease. Credit: Phanie/Alamy

An obese woman swims in a swimming pool. Doctors say that the incidence of NASH has exploded in the last two decades thanks in part to the growing prevalence of obesity; though there are currently no medicines on the market to combat the disease (an opportunity several pharmaceutical companies hope to capitalize on), exercise and weight loss represents one of the most reliable ways to reverse the progression of the disease.
Credit: Phanie/Alamy

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