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13. May 2015

On the occasion of the European Adiposity-Day: Overweight causes enormous sickness costs in Germany

Severe overweight poses a growing and increasingly expensive health issue in Germany. The direct sickness costs for the German healthcare system caused by adiposity and its secondary diseases have decisively increased, and reached in 2008 an estimate of 8,6 billion Euro.

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30. March 2015

How healthy are eggs? Do they deserve their reputation?

Easter is just around the corner - and that means that the egg consumption increases in Germany, where colored Easter eggs belong to this holiday’s customs. Chicken eggs are not only popular at Easter, but throughout the year as breakfast egg or omelet. How healthy are eggs after all?

28. November 2014

Increased risk of diabetes in obese children through adipose tissue alteration

Overweight and obese children have already from the age of six years on pathological changes in the adipose tissue.

13. June 2014

Prof. Michael Stumvoll receives the Werner Creutzfeldt Award of the German Diabetes Association

For his research on the development of diabetes mellitus and obesity Prof. Michael Stumvoll received the Werner Creutzfeldt Research Award of the German Diabetes Association (June 2014).

04. April 2014

New research results show how obesity can harm children and youths

Dr. Susann Blüher received the Arthur-Schlossmann-Award of the Saxon-Thuringian Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine and Pediatric Surgery.

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