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Professor Jenny Gunton, Director of the Centre for Diabetes and Obesity Research at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research said:

Energy expenditure variations «have never been measured in such an elegant way before,» says endocrinologist Eric Ravussin, director of Obesity Research at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis.

«The consequences of obesity, at a personal and a societal level, are staggering,» says Susan Yanovksi, co-director of obesity research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Kay has worked as a private practice lactation consultant, a hospital lactation consultant, the lactation consultant for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, for The Center for Childhood Obesity Research at The Pennsylvania State University, and for the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

Obesity research at Brown University found similar trends.

Not exact matches

Research out of Dr. Westman's clinic at Duke University supports a ketogenic diet as part of treatment for obesity, Type 2 diabetes, and fatty - liver disease, according to Time.

The Times also noted in 2015 that Coca - Cola and candy manufacturers spent millions of dollars funding research aimed at disproving any link between sugar consumption and obesity.

Keys and his colleagues, with support from the sugar industry, were effective at discrediting research from around the same time by John Yudkin that sugar, not cholesterol from saturated fats, is the main dietary source of most modern Western culture's obesity, diabetes, and cardiac issues.

The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

After all, the company was founded in response to academic research proving that even small cash rewards triple the effectiveness of weight - loss programs; that people are more effective at losing weight when their own money is at risk; and that social dynamics play a large role in the spread of obesity, and will likely play a large role in reversing obesity.

They even fund research scientists at prestigious universities to conduct studies and write policy papers that are skewed toward saying that their products don't contribute to diabetes, heart disease, obesity etc..

Research even shows that when kids have better access to drinking water at school, obesity rates go down.

A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health study published in the November 2007 issue of Obesity Research found that per capita total daily intake of liquid calories in the United States increased 94 percent from 1965 to 2002.

Here at Parenting Squad, we have been on board with childhood obesity prevention tips and research information for families.

Heather, who joined FRAC in January 2009, has a rich background in nutrition policy research, obesity prevention, and healthy eating strategies, including her prior work at the American Cancer Society, Mathematica Policy Research, and Tulane Uniresearch, obesity prevention, and healthy eating strategies, including her prior work at the American Cancer Society, Mathematica Policy Research, and Tulane UniResearch, and Tulane University.

Quoted in a recent ABC Health Insider article, Carla Wolper of the Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's Hospital in New York says it well: «No food should be demonized... Obesity is a result of too many calories, not too much HFCS.»

A research team led by Jane Heinig at University of California Davis has developed a program called Secrets of Baby Behavior that was designed to give new parents the information they need about infant and breastfeeding norms to reduce unnecessary formula supplementation and to help prevent childhood obesity caused by overfeeding.

The UCLA / RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion, a CDC - funded prevention research program, has been test - driving a way to get children drinking more water at mealtime to help combat America's obesity epidemic.

Actually, National Breastfeeding Awareness Month is a campaign funded by the US government to encourage women to breastfeed their babies by highlighting the research showing that babies who are breastfed for at least six months are less likely to develop ear infections, diarrhea and childhood obesity.

A review of 7,000 studies by the World Cancer Research Fund found a third of cancers are attributable to diet and found at least six cancers for which obesity was a major risk factor.

The discovery is an important advance in the search for new medications to fight obesity, said senior investigator Shingo Kajimura, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of cell and tissue biology, with a joint appointment in the UCSF Diabetes Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF.

«Skipping breakfast may lead to one or more risk factors, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, which may in turn lead to a heart attack over time,» said Leah E. Cahill, Ph.D., study lead author and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Mass..

Brownson, who also is director of the university's Prevention Research Center, and his co-authors set out to determine the effectiveness of three federal policies aimed at reducing childhood obesity: afterschool physical activity programs, a one - tenth - cent per ounce sugar - sweetened beverage excise tax, and a ban on fast food television advertising to children under 12.

The U.S. attorney's office in Indianapolis had alleged that Guoqing Cao and Shuyu Li, both naturalized U.S. citizens and senior biologists at Eli Lilly, passed research on tailored therapies for cancer and drugs to treat diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic disorders to Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine, a company in Lianyungang, China.

Through projects at Duke Health, DCRI and the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Armstrong and other Duke scientists are assessing the most effective strategies to reduce obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to Obesity Research, Armstrong and other Duke scientists are assessing the most effective strategies to reduce obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to weight.

The Review's lead author, Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, UK, says: «This evidence suggests that using nutritional labelling could help reduce calorie intake and make a useful impact as part of a wider set of measures aimed at tackling obesity,» She added, «There is no «magic bullet» to solve the obesity problem, so while calorie labelling may help, other measures to reduce calorie intake are also needed.»

Dr David Carslake, the study's lead author and Senior Research Associate from the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU) at the University of Bristol, said: «An alarming increase in obesity levels across the world which have risen from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014, according to a recent Lancet study, create concern about the implications for public health.

«People with psoriasis, particularly those with more severe disease, have an increased risk for a variety of other health problems, including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke and heart attack,» says board - certified dermatologist Jashin J. Wu, MD, FAAD, director of dermatology research at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center.

The next phase of Professor Morris» obesity and diet - related research is looking at the links between the brain, behaviour and the gut's microbiota.

«Our findings are likely to be controversial because they suggest that meat contributes to obesity prevalence worldwide at the same extent as sugar,» says Professor Maciej Henneberg, head of the Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Research Unit.

«However, studies have shown that HDL doesn't work as well in people at high risk for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases, and that the functional ability of HDL matters as much as its quantity,» said senior study author Montserrat Fitó, M.D., Ph.D., and coordinator of the Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute in Barcelona and at the Ciber of Physipathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Spain.

The research fits neatly into an emerging paradigm that helps explain a recent alarming increase in food allergies and other conditions, such as obesity and autoimmune disease, and hints at strategies to reverse the trend.

Soda consumers may be getting a much higher dose of the harmful sugar fructose than they have been led to believe, according to a new study by the Childhood Obesity Research Center (CORC) at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), part of Keck Medicine of USC.

The study's finding that obesity - induced inflammation impacts the presence of taste buds «provides a possible link between obesity and taste,» says Kathryn Medler, a taste physiologist at the University at Buffalo in New York, who was not involved with the research.

«Researchers widely acknowledge that receiving inadequate sleep is a serious problem and can potentially contribute to a variety of health complications, such as a weakened immune system or an increased risk for obesity and diabetes,» says Dr. Laura Scheinfeldt, lead author on the paper and a research scientist at Coriell.

With additional research and knowledge, she said, it may also be possible one day to use these epigenetic changes as markers, which can tell that a child is at risk of obesity and other diseases.

To find out more, Mihai Covasa and his colleagues at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Paris swapped gut bacteria between obesity - prone and obesity - resistant rats.

The epidemic of obesity is felt in prenatal clinics and delivery rooms around the world with a worrisome trend in high - risk pregnancies that could impact mother and child, according to Patrick M. Catalano, MD, the Dierker - Biscotti Women's Health and Wellness Professor and Director of the Center for Reproductive Health at MetroHealth and Director of the Clinical Research Unit of the Case Western Reserve University.

New research shows that bariatric surgery (also known as obesity surgery) is much more effective than an intensive lifestyle / medication intervention at reversing type 2 diabetes in patients with only mild - to - moderate obesity.

Professor Martin Gulliford, senior author from the Division of Health and Social Care Research at King's College London, said: «Current strategies to tackle obesity, which mainly focus on cutting calories and boosting physical activity, are failing to help the majority of obese patients to shed weight and maintain that weight loss.

New research presented today at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) identifies nicotine dependence, obesity, alcohol abuse and depressive disorders as risk factors for low back pain, a common condition causing disability, missed work, high medical costs and diminished life quality.

«This question has been around for at least 40 years,» says David Allison, an obesity researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), who was not part of the research.

10:19 p.m. on a Monday evening in October, I sat in a booth at Chevys Fresh Mex in Clifton, New Jersey, reviewing the latest research into the neurobiology of hunger and obesity.

On the other side of the world, Furberg and kidney specialist Ari Hakimi, also at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, came across the obesity paradox in their research.

Among postmenopausal women with normal body mass index (BMI), those with higher body fat levels had an increased risk for invasive breast cancer, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference Obesity and Cancer: Mechanisms Underlying Etiology and Outcomes, held Jan. 27 - 30.

Speaking about the research, Professor Mireia Jofre - Bonet from the Department of Economics at City, University of London and lead author of the study, said: «Our study confirms the close relationship between health and the economic environment as we found that the 2008 Great Recession led to a decrease in risky behaviour, such as smoking and drinking, but also an increase in the likelihood of obesity, diabetes and mental health problems.

In the same study, for those who were sleep deprived, «self - reported hunger and appetite ratings significantly increased by 24 percent and 23 percent, respectively,» noted the authors of the review paper, which was led by Julie Shlisky, a researcher at The New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center at Saint Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center.

Hired as a lab director in 2006 at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw, Dobrzyn has won several prestigious grants in the past year, and her five - person lab is publishing their research on obesity - related diabetes regularly.

An interdisciplinary research team at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles has found that body mass index (BMI) is an inadequate method for estimating changes in body fat and obesity in children with lresearch team at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles has found that body mass index (BMI) is an inadequate method for estimating changes in body fat and obesity in children with lResearch Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles has found that body mass index (BMI) is an inadequate method for estimating changes in body fat and obesity in children with leukemia.

«The link between increases in sugar intake, particularly fructose, and the rising obesity epidemic has been debated for many years with no clear conclusions,» said Catarina Rendeiro, a postdoctoral research affiliate at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and lead author on the study.