Sentences with phrase «obesity rates started»

So and all of this happened starting in the early 1980s, which was just about the time when obesity rates started to rise.

Obesity rates started to go up in the early 1980s.

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«We started with Mexico because it has the highest obesity rate in the world,» Catarino explains.

As childhood obesity rates continue to rise (as I fear they will), and as we start to see ever more clearly the ill health effects of our current school food regime (replete with its a la carte junk), as well as our current agricultural policies, maybe our society will eventually embrace the idea of universal, free school food.

«The House bill would undermine the effort to provide kids with more nutritious food and would be a major step backwards for the health of American children, just at the time childhood obesity rates are finally starting to level off,» he said.

In fact, among the breastfed infants, there was little difference in the rates of obesity between those who started solids before four months of age, those who started between four to five months of age, and those who started at or after six months.

Charts showing both the rising rate of obesity and the growing quantity of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in the food stream demonstrate a startling fact: The obesity epidemic started at the same time as the introduction as HFCS into the U.S. around 1975, at about the same time as sugar tariffs and quotas made imported sugar very expensive.

«However, we found that children with obesity who were rated as more impulsive prior to starting FBT had greater weight - loss success in the program compared to children with obesity who were rated as less impulsive,» added co-author Kelley Scholz, MSW, research supervisor at Seattle Children's Research Institute.

Even as rates of obesity (defined as a body mass index, or BMI, of at least 30 kg / m2) have started to plateau, severe obesity is still quite common, Dr. Arterburn said.

It's not that exercise isn't valuable, but the new approach helps folks who can't exercise (perhaps because of painful joints or problems with obesity) jump - start their weight loss — at a guaranteed rate of 2 pounds a week — with diet alone.

This was about the same time obesity levels started pushing up at great rates, so many blame HFCS for playing a key role in America's obesity epidemic.

While most of the attention on the benefits of plant - based eating have focused on reduced rates of many of the top killers, such as heart disease, cancer, strokes, diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure, the Adventist Health Study — started back in 1974 — offered insight into how broadly the potential health benefits may extend.

Yet given rising obesity rates, the diabetes epidemic, and the multitude of health problems that accompany food addiction, we should probably start paying more attention.

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It's the obesity range between BMI 30 - 40 where companies start jumping ship and either offering highly rated policies or declining to offer coverage at all.

Unexpected Weight Loss Few of us are going to complain if our clothes start fitting a little looser, particularly in a nation with a 26 percent obesity rate.