Sentences with phrase «obesogenic environments»

Public Health, 2012 Volume: 9 Number: 1411 1411-1426 Article: Parenting Styles and Home Obesogenic Environments Authors: Rachel Johnson, Greg Welk, Pedro F. Saint - Maurice and Michelle Ihmels Link: http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/9/4/1411 MDPI provides reprints in high quality with convenient shipping to destinations worldwide.

«Parenting Styles and Home Obesogenic Environments.»

Johnson, R.; Welk, G.; Saint - Maurice, P.F.; Ihmels, M. Parenting Styles and Home Obesogenic Environments.

Size matters in «obesogenic environments» In one of the three new studies dishware size made a big difference.

Dissecting obesogenic environments: the development and application of a framework for identifying and prioritizing environmental interventions for obesity

Obesity is a growing issue in many countries, accelerated by easy access to calorie - dense foods that are pleasurable to eat (known as an «obesogenic environment»).

To mimic this obesogenic environment, the teams led by Mara Dierssen at CRG and Rafael Maldonado at UPF offered mice the option of a high - fat «cafeteria» diet or a mixture of chopped - up commercial chocolate bars alongside their regular lab chow, before carrying out a detailed analysis of the animals» activity and feeding behaviour.

In this obesogenic environment, high - calorie food is everywhere, easy to access, and when it isn't, you can be sure there's an advert reminding you.

It might not be as simple as calories in versus calories out, but calorie awareness is still our best defense against an obesogenic environment that encourages us to overeat.

Combine that with what researchers call an «obesogenic environment,» where we're able to buy or prepare thousands of calories with minimal effort, and you can see why it's hard to maintain weight loss.

However, when exposed to the modern obesogenic environment of readily accessible food, weight gain occurs because food intake is more than necessary to offset the energy cost of sleep loss.

Scientists even have a name for it: «The obesogenic environment!»

This play for 11 - 19 year olds looks at the impact of the obesogenic environment.

Nonetheless, times have changed; today's preschoolers live in an obesogenic environment that was unimaginable as recently as 1990, and nongenetic factors may now be relatively more important.

Despite the recent increases in childhood overweight and the current obesogenic environment [1, 44], the majority of children in Australia are able to maintain a healthy weight and meet their nutrient requirements [3].

Despite global environmental changes, there are still large variations in weight status between children, indicating that there are individual differences in children's susceptibility to the current obesogenic environment [4].

There is growing agreement among experts that an obesogenic environment, which encourage excess food intake and idealizes thinness, plays a crucial role in the epidemic of childhood obesity and eating disorders.

Not exact matches

Attempts to restructure our «obesogenic» food environment for health are often criticized - as restricting personal choice and freedom.

Experts argue that education will not suffice without changing the contemporary «obesogenic» environment in which adolescents have countless sources of high - caloric - density, low - nutrient - density foods and beverages.

We now find ourselves in what some term an «obesogenic» environment filled with cheap, easily accessible high - calorie foods served in large portions.

«We need to continue to try and support healthy environments, as well as expecting individuals to resist the temptations of the obesogenic [promoting weight gain] environment,» added Wild, who wrote an editorial that accompanied the two studies.

Jane Martin, Executive Manager of the Obesity Policy Coalition, wrote an article for The Conversation calling for community - based approaches to changing our «obesogenic» environment.