Sentences with phrase «children against obesity»

Para 2: Considers that the delegated regulation does not contain sufficient measures to protect infants and young children against obesity and that the allowed maximum sugar level should be substantially lowered in line with WHO recommendations;

That's because breast milk boosts immunity, increases IQ, wards of diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's later in life, protects your child against obesity and a host of other amazing benefits.

Not exact matches

The NSW Cancer Council campaigns against junk food advertising to children because obesity is a risk factor for cancers including bowel, esophegal, pancreas, kidney, post-menopausal breast and endometrial.

Confronted with rising rates of child obesity and a surge of youth allergies, many local schools seized the moment to take a firm stand against junk food served anywhere and any time in the building — including fare offered by parents for classroom parties, bake sales and club meetings.

Studies show breastfeeding lowers the risk of obesity, cancer, and chronic diseases — many of which disproportionately impact African American women — in mothers, as well as helps protect children against a host of ailments, including respiratory infections, asthma and childhood leukemia.

How can we be touting healthy eating and living and waging a battle against obesity in America's children on one hand, while from the other hand, serving them meat that even McDonald's won't put in a value meal?

The meta - analysis showed that breast - feeding reduced the risk of obesity in childhood significantly... Breast - feeding seems to have a small but consistent protective effect against obesity in children.

The school lunch standards are an important step in the national food movement and the fight against child obesity.

Thus, it is not surprising that breastfeeding has been consistently associated with improved central nervous system development, as indicated by improved visual acuity in relationship to formula - fed infants.4 Second, both biological properties and differences in maternal - infant interactions during the feeding process can lead to improved motor and intellectual development outcomes.5, 6 Third, breastfeeding appears to be protective against the onset of childhood obesity, 7 a condition that has enormous psychosocial consequences for children.

A tax on sugar - sweetened beverages such as sodas, energy drinks, sweet teas and sports drinks could reduce obesity in adolescents, and exercise promotion, such as after - school physical activity programs, could impact younger children in the fight against fat.

Ms Pattinson said the next step was to figure out how the research can be used in the fight against obesity in children.

If actions against childhood obesity do not take place it is likely that today's children could be the first generation in over a century to experience a decline in life expectancy due to the epidemic of childhood obesity which leads to complications in later life.

Dr Emma Lancashire, who co-ordinated the trial, said schools were only «one layer» in the fight against obesity in children and needed wider support from other areas.

Researchers from University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation used data on premature deaths, self - reports about health and factors such as smoking rates, obesity, teen births, the percentage of children in poverty and number of liquor stores vs. grocery stores to rank more than 3,000 counties nationwide against others in their state.