Due to limited exercise, indoor cats are at high - risk for health disorders caused
by obesity like heart disease and diabetes.
Not exact matches
Yet, we're increasingly plagued
by problems
like obesity, diabetes, depression, and anxiety, which slowly impinge on the quality and length of our lives.
He calmly explained that alcoholism,
like lung cancer caused
by cigarettes or diabetes brought on
by obesity, is a legitimate disease, even if it arises from an avoidable indulgence.
That bizarre scenario was all I could think of when I received an email yesterday from the School Nutrition Association (SNA), relaying SNA president Julia Bauscher's refutation of a new, peer - reviewed study in Childhood
Obesity finding that kids actually
like the healthier school food mandated
by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA).
I don't endorse discriminatory programs
like the one in New Zealand, but it's naive to assume that the real - world costs associated with
obesity are going to be blithely overlooked
by businesses (or nations) out to protect their bottom line.
Not only, as you mentioned, is there a growing trend of childhood
obesity, which breastfeeding seems to help combat (
by teaching satiety and being perfectly balanced for each child), but
like you said — children come in all sizes.
«Clearly, this is a safe product, it is a lean product, it helps reduce
obesity, and there is a spurious attack being levied against it
by some groups who are against it... And you can suspect who they might be — people who don't
like meat.»
It looks
like it will be left up to the techers to point out that the feelings of rage that Fed Up seems inclined to create are useless unless they lead to the step -
by - step actions that might actually reduce
obesity.
As civil engineer and sustainability advocate Charles Marohn so eloquently put it, «Trying to solve congestion
by making roadways wider is
like trying to solve
obesity by buying bigger pants.»
Male offspring, on the other hand, were unaffected
by the elevated maternal androgen levels, but displayed anxiety -
like behaviour in response to maternal
obesity.
Until World War II, the leading authorities on
obesity (and most medical disciplines) worked in Europe and had concluded that
obesity was,
like any other growth disorder, caused
by a hormonal and regulatory defect.
The study demonstrates that effective nutrition education programs,
like those supported
by the Nutrition Education and
Obesity Prevention Grant Program, or SNAP - Ed, can impact SNAP participants» willingness to try, buy and eat more healthy foods.
Given the current
obesity and diabetes epidemic there is a pressing need to make our towns and cities places where getting around on foot or
by bike feels
like the natural choice.»
It is exciting that there is now evidence that brown fat can be useful in treating
obesity in adult humans, and that it can be activated
by cold exposure or a drug
like mirabegron (18 April, p 32).
In a prospective European case - cohort study stratified
by sex, overall effects tended to be slightly stronger in men compared with women, although adjustment for confounding factors
like obesity, physical activity, or educational level attenuated the association in men but strengthened it in women (135).
Angela C Estampador, 1,2 Paul W Franks1, 3,4 1Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden; 2Department of Endocrinology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; 3Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; 4Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Abstract: Evidence has emerged across the past few decades that the lifetime risk of developing morbidities
like type 2 diabetes,
obesity, and cardiovascular disease may be influenced
by exposures that occur in utero and in childhood.
Conditions
like diabetes, high blood pressure and
obesity are thought to boost the risk of these cardiac conditions
by similar degrees, the researchers said.
Like the
obesity rate, fast - food consumption varies widely
by region, and residents of some states disproportionately choose fast food over other options when they go out to eat.
His groundbreaking research is leading to new philosophies on how to treat conditions
like irritable bowel syndrome, autism,
obesity, PTSD, and anorexia
by looking at a system of two brains rather than a separate gut and brain.
Consider for one minute the possibility that excess carbohydrates, not excess fat (which the USDA only recommends 65 grams of a day) cause problems
like obesity, diabetes and heart disease, and even if Americans are only following half of the advice set forth
by the USDA, and its easy to see why these diseases are rampant.
Action for Healthy Kids, Chicago, IL Addresses the childhood
obesity epidemic
by working with volunteer teams nationwide to improve nutrition and increase physical activity in schools through programs
like Game On!
Trying to prevent heart disease
by lowering cholesterol is
like trying to prevent
obesity by cutting out lettuce.
And all of these benefits combine to help lower a person's risk of cardiovascular disease (among many other diseases including at least 11 known cancers)
by reducing risk factors
like obesity, hypertension, and high blood cholesterol.
«One of the most radical implications of this hypothesis is that even such an intractable condition as anorexia nervosa — which,
like obesity, is now universally considered a behavioral and psychological disorder — may be caused fundamentally
by a physiological defect of fat metabolism and insulin.
We can try to rescue the food reward / palatability hypothesis of
obesity in a case
like this
by simply making the claim that if these people are fat, then obviously something about their food must have been hyper - rewarding.
But could the habit also benefit physical well - being
like reducing
obesity, and
by extension, the risk for heart disease?
Environmental chemicals, lack of dietary fiber, excess dietary fat, estrogens in cow's milk, lack of plant - derived phytoestrogens, and resulting
obesity are some of the means
by which diet adversely affects hormones.6 - 10 Most importantly, when a woman changes to a low - fat, plant - food based diet her reproductive hormones correct and most troublesome female problems,
like heavy menstrual bleeding, fibrocystic breast disease, and PMS are alleviated.
He advocates ancient traditional Chinese medicine treatments
like acupuncture and massage in different points and special Chinese herbal formulas for infertility, high blood pressure, insomnia,
obesity and other medical conditions caused
by unhealthy and unbalanced lifestyles.
Eating processed or deep fried foods, trans fats can all contribute to chronic health over time, and diseases
like heart disease, diabetes,
obesity, and countless other illnesses can be contributed in part to the inflammation caused
by certain foods such as these that we choose to eat over a prolonged period of time.
They also may inhibit leptin, a hormone made
by adipose cells which inhibits hunger and this dysregulation may be one of the ways that feeding infant formula encourages
obesity and weight gain in infants and later in life.59 • Protease inhibitors are substances that inactivate some key digestive enzymes
like trypsin and chymotrypsin and are associated with pancreatitis and pancreatic enlargement.
Obesity causes elevated amounts of estrogen (secreted
by fat cells) which can drive genesis of certain cancers
like breast and endometrial cancer
When stress becomes chronic, the flood of stress chemicals — adrenaline and cortisol — produced
by your adrenal glands interfere with your thyroid hormones, causing a whole gamut of health - related issues
like obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and / or unstable blood sugar levels.
I understand that
obesity is caused
by many reasons, but I sometimes still get discouraged
by some videos
like the one I mentioned.
That's the issue I'm trying... The issues that I'd
like to see our research settle is, is
obesity caused merely
by eating too much, in which case no matter how you phrase it, it turns out to be some variant on a gluttony or sloth disorder, which I think is horribly naive and intolerably cruel to the obese population.
«Acne should be regarded as an mTORC1 - driven disease of civilization,» the researchers wrote, «
like obesity, type 2 diabetes and cancer induced
by Western diet.»
Fibrous fruits also benefit conditions
like heart diseases
by reducing hyperlipidemia and hypertension, diabetes mellitus and
obesity.
He said: «We've done well in terms of producing live, healthy babies over the last 60, 70 years, but,
by the time children are leaving school, between 10 per cent and 15 per cent of them are in trouble emotionally or mentally, and suffer from things
like obesity, eating disorders, anxiety and stress.»
Amid reports that overweight pupils underperform academically — data obtained from at least six studies
by Scottish PHD student Anne Martin show that children who are obese at 11 achieve lower than average marks in maths, science and English at 16 — and findings that there is a higher incidence of serious childhood
obesity in London than New York, figures
like the London Health Commission's Lord Darzi are claiming that the issue is «at breaking point.»
With pet
obesity a growing concern, manufacturers
like West Paw Design are responding
by rolling out products that can be used to keep pets fit year - round.
Like other long - strand grass hays, the soft - textured Orchard Grass Hay is high in fiber, low in protein and supports the health of small herbivores
by stimulating digestion, preventing
obesity and making mealtime more appealing.
By supplementing Fido's and Puss» bodies with the most nutritionally suitable food, you can also help to prevent and / or lower the risks of common age - related conditions
like organ failure,
obesity, and more.
Like Hip Dysplasia it can be genetic but Elbow Dysplasia is the general term for any one of many abnormalities within the joint and can also be caused
by environmental factors such as rapid growth,
obesity, trauma or nutrition.
The result of a poll conducted
by the Association for Pet
Obesity Prevention (APOP) revealed that over 40 % of pet owners admitted they don't understand what a healthy weight should look
like.
However, as a pet sitting service provider (as well as client), I would strongly urge AHNA's first Hospital Director, Kathryn Humphries, to show boldness and genuine engagement with animals
by pioneering the recruitment of veterinary nutritionists and allergists to AHNA's team:
Obesity and allergies are huge and primary quality - of - life issues that continue to plague pet parents, yet vet clinics
like AHNA treat these problems as secondary in importance, thus diminishing the impact and function they play in the lives of our animal companions.
We agree that maintaining healthy weight in important for pet health; in addition to addressing
obesity in the exam room as we would with any other health concern, we strive to increase awareness
by covering topics
like diet,
obesity, weight management, ideas for increasing exercise, weight loss, and low calorie treats in our online blog.
That is
like pretending that we can fix
obesity by persuading people that eating is not enjoyable, or stop the population explosion
by telling people that sex is no fun.
... because it's a crappy industrial product produced through weird enzymic processes, because it gets digested
by the liver instead of the stomach, because it is part of our national corn - addiction, because it is so cheap that it is responsible for Big Gulps and the ever - sweetening of things
like soup and ketchup, because it is the end product in our increasingly industrialized unsustainable food system and because it is at least in part responsible for the
obesity epidemic...
There is no doubt that the environment is complex and,
like the strategies we used for tobacco cessation, lowering
obesity rates in Aboriginal communities requires a coherent, multi-level, multi-sector integrated approach supported
by political will and resources.
I would
like to acknowledge the «
Obesity Stigma and Weight Management Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Treatment Manual», which is a one - day workshop protocol developed
by Jason Lillis, Steven Hayes, and Kara Bunting.