Sentences with phrase «control child obesity»

New evidence is confirming that the environment kids live in has a greater impact than factors such as genetics, insufficient physical activity or other elements in efforts to control child obesity.

What you have done by spreading your lies about this product is adding to the already out of control child obesity problem.

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Parents need to release some of that control - maybe that's why we have such a huge problem with child obesity and eating disorders... hello?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that childhood obesity affects approximately 12.5 million children and teens in the United States (17 % of that population).

Last week I shared on TLT's Facebook page and Twitter feed news of a Center for Disease Control report finding that rates of childhood obesity among low - income children have fallen modestly in 19 states between the years 2008 - 2011, the first such... [Continue reading]

In young children, a key to preventing obesity is to allow them control over portion size.

According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, more than a third of children and adolescents in 2008 were obese or overweight, reflecting a triple increase in childhood obesity in just... Read more

The researchers carefully controlled for several known risk factors for stillbirth: obesity, smoking, low socioeconomic status, maternal age, and number of prior children.

Diane: I did wonder if the researchers controlled for socioeconomic status, since children are more likely to eat school lunch when their parents can't afford anything else, and those economically disadvantage home environments may also contribute to obesity.

Of these 11 studies, eight showed an inverse relationship between breastfeeding and child obesity after controlling for potential confounders.

Compared with newborns of non-diabetic women, children of diabetic mothers with poorly controlled glycaemia show neurophysiological impairment and have a higher risk for metabolic syndrome, obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus in later life.»

For the first time in decades, reported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity rates declined among low - income preschool children, a particularly vulnerable demographic group.

The researchers examined respondents» deference to science on a scale of 0 - 10 when it came to 14 policy issues, including child vaccinations, stem cell research, global warming, child obesity and diet, AIDS prevention, birth control education, legalizing drug use, gun control, regulation of nuclear power, animal testing, and teaching evolution in schools.

In the past 30 years, obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents, with more than one - third of children and adolescents found to be overweight or obese in 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Although numerous studies have examined the potentially detrimental effects of restrictive feeding practices on children, the current study was novel in that it focused on the interplay of the parent's emotions with their controlling the child's food intake, said lead author Jaclyn A. Saltzman, a doctoral researcher in human development and family studies and scholar in the Illinois Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Program.

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.

Integrating a family - focused approach into child obesity prevention: rationale and design for the My Parenting SOS study randomized control trial.

Using targeted and whole - exome sequencing, we studied 32 human and 87 rodent obesity genes in 2,548 severely obese children and 1,117 controls.

Another possibility, raised in the comments by Amber, is that mothers of the obese children were obese themselves, ate low - carb diets for weight control reasons, and passed on their obesity to their children.

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the United States in the past 30 years.

Meanwhile, the obesity epidemic in the United States is ruining lives, bankrupting the healthcare system, and getting worse; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 31 % of adults are obese and 15 % of children and teenagers age 6 - 19 are overweight, and those percentages are booming.

If attempts to educate parents about the inherent risks of child obesity is failing miserably, prosecuting parents for child cruelty in allowing their children to become obese for reasons other than a diagnosed medical condition, could be the only way for the government to truly tackle this out - of - control problem.

Randomised Controlled Trial to the Study the Effectiveness of Lifestyle Triple P: A Childhood Obesity Intervention Aimed at Parents of Overweight Children — Sanne Gerards

Multiple logistic regression was used to control for potential confounders (selected a priori): child's sex, race, use of behavior - modifying medication, history of academic retention, and hours of television per day; maternal obesity, smoking status, marital status, education, and depressive symptoms; family poverty status; and Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment - Short Form (HOME - SF) cognitive stimulation score.

Treating childhood obesity: family background variables and the child's success in a weight - control intervention

This finding persisted even when controlling for obesity at age 3 years, several postulated intermediates (including child bottle - feeding and television viewing), and ostensible confounders such as maternal depression, maternal smoking during pregnancy, child birth weight, and other relevant covariates.

RESULTS: Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that long - term success (at least 5 % weight reduction by the 1 - year follow - up) versus failure (dropping out or less weight reduction) was significantly predicted by the set of psychosocial variables (family adversity, maternal depression, and attachment insecurity) when we controlled for familial obesity, preintervention overweight, age, and gender of the index child and parental educational level.

Smoking status, diabetes management and blood pressure control all saw improvements but some areas slipped, such as child immunisations below 36 months, cervical screening and overweight and obesity, as measured by BMI.

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Among obesity related parenting practices, three feeding behaviors have been studied most often: restriction (the extent to which parents control the child's consumption of sugary and high - fat food), pressure to eat (the extent to which parents encourage the child to eat) and monitoring (the extent to which parents direct the child toward healthy eating)[1].