Fighting obesity: a call to arms.

Is It Just To Call It The Zarrin-Ghaba? A Review of the Long Epic Poem: Shahnaame Asadi (Zarrin-Ghaba-Nameh)

Asadi's Shahname, Zarrin-Ghaba-Nameh, is an epic poem (epopee) with a total of 23,133 lines. It was reprinted in 2014 based on Sajjad Aydanlou’s corrections and his research project named Epic Literature and Research Collection. The core plot of this poem is similar to the plots of the stories in the traditional dramatic story telling (Naqqali) with narratives about several different corps and ...

Confronting the obesity epidemic: call to arms.

Brothers in arms - An experiment on the alliance puzzle

Our experimental analysis of alliances in conflicts leads to three main findings. First, even in the absence of repeated interaction, direct contact or communication, free-riding among alliance members is far less pronounced than what would be expected from non-cooperative theory. Second, this possible solidarity among ‘brothers in arms’ when fighting against an outside enemy may rapidly deteri...

Childhood obesity: a societal problem to solve.

In contrast to other threats to American children's health, the treatment and prevention of childhood obesity are considered the responsibility of individual children and their parents. This pressure exists in the context of the societal stigmatization of overweight children and the powerful environmental inducements aimed directly at children to eat nutritionally poor foods. Parents of overwei...

عوامل اجتماعی، اقتصادی و محیطی موثر بر اضافه وزن و چاقی؛ یک مطالعه مروری

Obesity is a globall major public health problem, which has negative implications for health and imposes economic burden on society. Various individual and social factors are involved in developing obesity, which without considering them, the obesity prevention and treatment strategies will not be succeed. The results of different studies show that there are different effects of socioeconomic s...