Sentences with phrase «with global obesity»

Associations of economic and gender inequality with global obesity prevalence: understanding the female excess

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«We have a huge ambition and breadth looking at business challenges from helping families with portion control and tackling obesity to addressing packaging sustainability within our bottled water business,» said Gerardo Mazzeo, global innovation director and CSV manager, Nestlé.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

«As the world's largest stevia producer and supplier, we recognise the unique role we can play in helping the food and beverage industry to reduce its impact on the environment and tackle the global obesity challenge, with our goals articulating the significant role we can play in this respect.»

The McKinsey Global Institute, for instance, classifies taxation as one of the least effective obesity interventions, with «No direct evidence for change in weight or change in consumption or physical activity levels.»

Research from the McKinsey Global Institute found that a 10 per cent tax on high - sugar products would be one of the least effective measures in combatting obesity, ranking 14th of 17 intervention methods, with portion control having the highest estimated impact with the most cost effective measures.

There is a global nutrition crisis, with dual problems of under - nutrition and obesity.

The level of obesity has almost tripled in the UK in the last 20 years and with estimations that 1 in 4 adults will be obese in 2020, it is evident we have a global epidemic; something needs to be done, fast.

Segal says that the global rise in sweetener consumption — along with other major shifts in human nutrition — coincided with the dramatic increase in obesity and diabetes epidemics around the world.

«Because of our nation's childhood and teenage obesity public health crises, it is important to raise awareness about how companies are using celebrities popular with these audiences to market their unhealthy products,» said Dr. Bragg, who is also a faculty member at the NYU College of Global Public Health.

Global progress towards tackling obesity has been «unacceptably slow,» with only one in four countries implementing a policy on healthy eating up to 2010, according to a major new six - part Series on obesity, published in The Lancet.

With global increase in obesity and diet - related metabolic diseases, interest has intensified in ancestral or «Palaeolithic» diets, not least because — to a first order of approximation — human physiology should be optimized for the nutritional profiles we have experienced during our evolution.

«Taxing sugary drinks isn't a new concept, but given the immediacy of the global obesity problem, it's time we got creative with how we approach it,» said author of the study Dr. Evan Blecher, Senior Economist at the American Cancer Society.

If you are concerned about the obesity epidemic, the global surge of chronic noninfectious diseases, rising costs of health care, or your family's health, then ask yourself if you agree with the following three statements:

However, a new study by NYU College of Global Public Health and the University of Michigan finds that this «obesity paradox» is not present among people with new cases of cardiovascular disease.

Larger sex differences in obesity rates were reported in countries with greater gender inequality, quantitatively assessed by the global gender gap index, and the gender inequality index in multicountry ecological studies (7 — 9).

Global differences between women and men in the prevalence of obesity: is there an association with gender inequality?

More often than not, this results with overindulging in high - carb foods and some experts believe this to be the root of the current global obesity epidemic.

«We are worried about the global epidemic of obesity, since obesity has a strong association with maternal cardiovascular health and risk of prehypertension,» she said.

That's in part because prediabetes and diabetes are associated with the growing obesity rate worldwide, which has been called a «global epidemic» by the World Health Organization.

Although we're inundated with theories, explanations, and diet and exercise programs, obesity continues to be a huge global problem.

In 2003, the Federation launched a collaboration with the World Health Organization to develop a global fruit and vegetable initiative as one strategy to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases and obesity.

«People often think of obesity as an insurance issue, and they know that expensive health care problems are associated with it,» says lead author says Bruce Y. Lee, MD, executive director of the Global Obesity Prevention Center at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public obesity as an insurance issue, and they know that expensive health care problems are associated with it,» says lead author says Bruce Y. Lee, MD, executive director of the Global Obesity Prevention Center at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Obesity Prevention Center at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Obesity rates in Australia and New Zealand have soared by more than 80 per cent in the past 33 years, the biggest increase in a groundbreaking survey of The Global Matching Project is the division of the free and open source People Matching Project that helps users find the person with the most similar

Obesity is the dominant unmet global health issue, with Western countries topping the list.

The 2015 Hill's Global Symposium on Dealing With Obesity and Concurrent Diseases was held in Miami, Florida, on April 27 and 28, 2015.

We tend to think of obesity only as a public - health problem, but many of its causes overlap with those of global warming.

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