Sentences with phrase «obesity researchers from»

One such study was led by Claude Bouchard, an obesity researcher from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, LA.

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A Ted Talk by British researcher Richard Wilkinson, for example, focuses on the harm to society that results from economic inequality — notably the gaps within (not between) societies, which includes life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality, crime, teenage births, obesity and mental illness.

«The researchers from Deakin University calling for the ban claim BPA can lead to diabetes and obesity.

18 July 2017 MEDIA RELEASE LOW - kJ SWEETENERS DEEMED SAFE BY ALL LEADING GLOBAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES The CEO of the Australian Beverages Council, Geoff Parker, today dismissed claims by researchers from the University of Manitoba that low - kilojoule (low - kJ) sweeteners increased the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

However, the interests of the food industry (increased sales of their products) are very different from those of most researchers (the honest pursuit of knowledge), and recent randomized trials support a positive association between SSB consumption and overweight / obesity.

Prenatal exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), a common chemical used in plastic water bottles and canned food, is associated with measures of obesity in children at age 7, according to researchers from the Columbia Center for Children's...

Dr. Ruth Lawrence, a breastfeeding researcher from the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, said she still believes that starting breastfeeding in the first place can help ward off obesity.

Involvement in sports, for example, was tied to a lower risk of obesity in boys but not girls and drinking milk was linked to lowered risk among girls but not boys, according to researchers from the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor.

In a new study published in the Journal of Health Psychology, researchers from the University of Surrey have found dieters who eat «on the go» may increase their food intake later in the day which could lead to weight gain and obesity.

The researchers identified notable spikes between 2014 and 2016 in obesity for preschool boys, which rose from 8.5 percent to 14.2 percent, and girls aged 16 to 19, whose rates of obesity jumped from 35.6 percent to 47.9 percent.

Using the body mass index, a ratio of weight to height, of more than 30 million 5 - to 19 - year - olds, researchers tracked trends from 1975 to 2016 in five weight categories: moderate to severe underweight, mild underweight, healthy weight, overweight and obesity.

A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show how obesity increases risk of 13 different cancers in young adults.

The researchers fed mice samples of this bacterium from the volunteer's gut to determine whether the pathogen was a cause or a result of his obesity.

Three decades of rising childhood obesity continued their upward trend in 2016 according to a new analysis from Duke Health researchers.

Researchers from Harvard Medical School and elsewhere published a study in 2016 in the journal Obesity looking at whether adults living with constant exposure to traffic are more likely to be overweight.

«The need to educate customers about the nutritional content of restaurant foods is acute because consumers increasingly eat away from home, restaurants serve large portions of energy - dense and high - sodium foods, and obesity and the prevalence of other diet - related diseases are high,» according to lead researcher Amy Auchincloss, PhD, MPH, of the Drexel University School of Public Health.

The researchers» second design is a weight loss app called DietAlert, developed with funding from Weight Watchers and the Obesity Society.

Dogs and cats now suffer from obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and more, just like humans, and researchers are now investigating common risk factors for pets and owners

That's the question being raised by a team of researchers from the University of Adelaide, who say meat in the modern diet offers surplus energy, and is contributing to the prevalence of global obesity.

The researchers studied bones from rats in the three groups at different ages to determine how early in the development of obesity and diabetes the bone was affected negatively.

Exposure to lead during early development can alter the the gut microbiota, increasing the chances for obesity in adulthood, researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health have found.

«We believe this research has implications for a wide range of people, from basic scientists who are interested in how reward processing changes across the lifespan, to obesity researchers looking to devise interventions to curb childhood obesity, to parents and pediatricians trying to raise healthier and happier kids,» says Silvers.

Probing the link between adiponectin deficiency and metabolic disorders like diabetes and obesity, researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City injected adiponectin into wild - type mice, diabetic mice, and obese diabetic mice.

But in the past decade, researchers have come to appreciate that the bacteria living in and on our bodies — collectively called the human microbiome — play a role in how our bodies work, affecting everything from allergies to obesity.

Researchers from Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified obesity as a possible risk factor for clostridium difficile infection (CDI).

To conduct the study, researchers collected serial weight measurements from more than 4,000 women with pre-pregnancy BMI ≥ 25, placing them in the category of overweight or obesity, in a large women's hospital in Pennsylvania from 1998 — 2010.

University of Michigan Health System researchers revealed an obesity paradox among older Americans suffering from sepsis.

Cancer researchers are also starting to focus more on risks from obesity.

With the risk for obesity - associated diseases significantly higher for men than women, researchers compared how mice from each sex reacted to high - fat diets.

The animal's utility is undisputed; it has helped researchers study not just pharmacology and toxicology but everything from cancer and AIDS to obesity and aging.

The researchers stress that more evidence is needed before it can be determined whether antibiotics lead to obesity in humans, and the present study should not deter doctors from prescribing antibiotics to children when they are necessary.

Researchers from China hypothesized that the chronic inflammation associated with obesity might affect the male genital tract, which includes reproductive organs including the testes, providing a potential mechanism to explain the link between obesity and male infertility.

«Future studies on how PAF / PAFR signaling controls UCP1 levels through beta3 - AR production in the BAT of animals and humans may reveal new therapeutic targets to treat metabolic disorders associated with obesity,» said Junko Sugatani, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Pharmaco - Biochemistry at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Shizuoka in Shizuoka, Japan.

What the researchers found was that mice fed a diet with either of the soybean oils had worse fatty liver, glucose intolerance and obesity than the group that got all their fat from coconut oil.

«Obesity is a serious problem in modern society and both obesity and male infertility rates continue to increase,» says Zhide Ding from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine in China and the researcher in charge of theObesity is a serious problem in modern society and both obesity and male infertility rates continue to increase,» says Zhide Ding from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine in China and the researcher in charge of theobesity and male infertility rates continue to increase,» says Zhide Ding from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine in China and the researcher in charge of the study.

Although various studies propose a connection between childhood ADHD and obesity, «this is the first population - based longitudinal study to examine the association between ADHD and development of obesity using ADHD cases and controls of both sexes derived from the same birth cohort,» says lead author Seema Kumar, M.D., pediatrician and researcher at Mayo Clinic Children's Research Center.

Researchers found a significant decrease in rates of childhood overweight or obesity between 2004 and 2013, from 30.7 % in 2004 to 27.0 % a decade later among children aged 3 to 19 years.

Given the potential medical applications — about 100 million people suffer from obesity or diabetes in the US alone — researchers are eager to understand brown fat thermogenesis and how it can be boosted artificially.

Using cells from mice and human livers, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute researchers demonstrated for the first time how under specific conditions, such as obesity, liver CD8 + T cells, white blood cells which play an important role in the control of viral infections, become highly activated and inflammatory, reprogramming themselves into disease - driving cells.

The researchers assert that findings from a variety of studies of juvenile obesity in humans show that children who are inactive in childhood are significantly more likely than those who engaged in exercise when young to continue this habit into adulthood.

The Joslin researchers bred new generations of the three mice models and then tested whether germ - free mice who were given microbes from these three strains of mice were prone to diabetes or obesity like the donors.

Learn about everything from Parkinson's disease to obesity or nutrition with top researchers.

Researchers have produced knockout mice with characteristics similar to humans suffering from a wide range of disorders, including cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders and even obesity.

7/15/2008 Physical Activity in Children Declines Significantly from Age 9 to 15 UC San Diego Led Study Urges Community - wide Changes The increase in childhood obesity may be due, in part, to children's decline in physical activity as they age, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego Sch... More...

The researchers say they've found evidence that obesity changes the microRNA (miRNA) signature — epigenetic regulators of gene expression — in both the dad's sperm and the daughter's breast tissue, suggesting that miRNAs may carry the epigenetic information from obese dads to their daughters.

The findings, published online June 24 in Scientific Reports by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers, come from one of the first animal studies to examine the impact of paternal obesity on future generations» cancer risk.

October 19, 2011 Moving poor women to lower - poverty neighborhoods improves their health Low - income women with children who move from high - poverty to lower - poverty neighborhoods experience notable long - term improvements in some aspects of their health, namely reductions in diabetes and extreme obesity, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and partner institutions.

Public Health Research Day brings together researchers from across UC San Diego to take on issues ranging from obesity to drug abuse.

After controlling for factors such as age, gender, smoking status, and physical activity, the researchers found that people who had normal BMIs but who also had «central obesity» — defined as a high waist - to - hip ratio — had a 22 % increased risk of death from all causes, compared to people with normal BMIs and healthier waist - to - hip ratios.

Association similar to that from high blood pressure, smoking, obesity and diabetes, researchers say