Sentences with phrase «diabetes and obesity epidemics»

Clearly, the diabetes and obesity epidemics started in 1977.

Considering the urgency of addressing the current diabetes and obesity epidemics, their article is also a call to action for researchers and health systems to develop successful interventions to increase physical activity among women of reproductive age.»

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Since 2005, soda sales have dropped steadily, as more and more evidence points to sugar as the leading culprit in North America's obesity and diabetes epidemics.

The food pyramid resulted in an epidemic of type 2 diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome.

«Unfortunately, obesity and diabetes are epidemics that show no signs of slowing down, which makes our products an important option for consumers worldwide,» Block says.

The researchers were surprised with the findings: «This was a major surprise for us — that soybean oil is causing more obesity and diabetes than fructose — especially when you see headlines everyday about the potential role of sugar consumption in the current obesity epidemic.

Foods and beverages high in added sugars have been linked to the nation's increasing obesity epidemic as well as diet - related illnesses including type - 2 diabetes and heart disease.

Excessive sugar consumption has been linked to America's obesity epidemic and the vigorous rise of type 2 diabetes in the last several decades.

In light of the growing obesity and diabetes epidemics, promoting healthy hydration is critical.

Childhood obesity and Type II diabetes have reached epidemic levels as more and more children abandon the playground or sports field for the comfort of their couches and Play Stations.

The Whole Child health report brings together a comprehensive picture of the effects to mind, body and spirit of the societal shift toward growing up indoors, including not only epidemic childhood obesity but also precipitously rising rates of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), childhood diabetes, and pediatric depression.

When part of an appropriately designed exercise and nutrition program, resistance training can help battle two of the growing youth health epidemics: obesity and type 2 diabetes.

There is an epidemic of childhood obesity plus other childhood related health issues such as diabetes and poor physical performance due to inactivity.

Asthma, ear infections, childhood diabetes, depression, and obesity were not always the health epidemics they are today.

Only their concern doesn't stem from the epidemic rates of obesity, diabetes and corn allergies that we are seeing, but rather their concern stems from a 20 year low in the sale of high fructose corn syrup and the impact it is having on the profitability of members of the Corn Refiners Association

Sugar, sodas and junk foods made of refined grains are directly responsible for an epidemic of obesity and realted diseases: diabetes, hypertension, athereosclerosis and a surge in cases of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children.

Artificial feeding increases the risk of not only childhood infections, but also of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancers, which are assuming epidemic proportions.

«This bill will help us take head - on the epidemics of childhood obesity, diabetes and other diet related diseases,» Sen. Tom Harkin, D - Iowa, said.

Children nutrition advocates are rightly concerned that waivers and other changes to the agriculture bills would weaken laws designed to curtail the obesity and diabetes epidemic.

Excess sugar consumption is causing an epidemic of obesity and diabetes in our children....

I think that medicalized birth practices resulting in inter-generational deprivation of our basic human rights has been a major contributor epidemics of diabetes and obesity and mental health problems.

Meanwhile, a growing body of scientific evidence links sugar with an epidemic of childhood obesity as well as a host of related health problems: diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and even an unprecedented outbreak of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children.

The organization is also concerned about obesity and diabetes epidemics in children across the country.

That makes them the main culprits in the obesity epidemic which contributes to the UK's top killers: heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and cancer.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes sleep deprivation as a «public health epidemic» linked to a wide range of medical issues, including hypertension, diabetes, depression, obesity and cancer.

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.

This trend is certainly set to stay, with an ageing population and the emergence of lifestyle - related «epidemics» such as obesity, diabetes, asthma, and heart disease.

«Obesity and Type 2 diabetes in children is on the rise and there is the argument that it is related to lifestyle and availability of high calorie foods and reduced physical activity, but our study has found that maternal antidepressant use may also be a contributing factor to the obesity and diabetes epidemic,» said the study's senior investigator Alison Holloway, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at McMaster UnivObesity and Type 2 diabetes in children is on the rise and there is the argument that it is related to lifestyle and availability of high calorie foods and reduced physical activity, but our study has found that maternal antidepressant use may also be a contributing factor to the obesity and diabetes epidemic,» said the study's senior investigator Alison Holloway, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at McMaster Univobesity and diabetes epidemic,» said the study's senior investigator Alison Holloway, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at McMaster University.

This alternative hypothesis of obesity implies that the ongoing worldwide epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes (which stems to great extent from insulin resistance) are largely driven by the grains and sugars in our diets.

The results suggest that drugs capable of targeting similar molecular pathways in human fat cells could one day become major tools for fighting the growing worldwide epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes, according to senior investigator Shingo Kajimura, PhD, an assistant professor of cell and tissue biology in UCSF's School of Dentistry.

Many people find it challenging to exercise regularly and that is contributing to the obesity and diabetes epidemics.

Perceptions of all fat as unhealthy have resulted in decreased fat consumption in the US population, but the epidemics of obesity and diabetes have continued to grow.

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.»

«Given the growing epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and NAFLD, this study brings to the attention of policymakers, providers, pharmaceutical companies, payers, and patients the critical importance of understanding NAFLD and establishing a policy for prevention, early detection, and effective therapy,» said Dr. Younossi.

And the imprudent use of antibiotics has contributed worldwide to epidemics of chronic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and cancAnd the imprudent use of antibiotics has contributed worldwide to epidemics of chronic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and cancand cancer.

Diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders are at epidemic levels in the United States.

And it suggests that an intervention as simple as getting enough sleep could counteract the current epidemics of diabetes and obesiAnd it suggests that an intervention as simple as getting enough sleep could counteract the current epidemics of diabetes and obesiand obesity.

About 18 million people in the United States have type 2 diabetes, and the disease is spreading with the epidemic of obesity.

This eventually led to the current epidemic of diseases like type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Dr. Sara Gottfried, a hormone expert and best - selling author, notes that in the many years the American Heart Association has been pushing low - fat diets, there has been a growing epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

But sadly not before heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity and a whole host of other catastrophic diseases have reached epidemic proportions!

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.

It arguably bears some of the blame for the epidemic of obesity and weight - related disorders such as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.

Unfortunately, very little coconut oil is consumed in the U.S. and metabolic syndrome — along with its symptoms of obesity, diabetes and heart disease — is reaching epidemic proportions!

The epidemic of diabetes and obesity has been blamed on us.

Fat is one of your body's main building blocks, yet for decades we followed a low - fat diet according to U.S. dietary guidelines, which became a high - sugar, high - refined - carb diet — contributing to an epidemic of insulin resistance, obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and many other serious health problems.

In early 1977, the committee released the Dietary Goals for Americans, blaming what they saw as an «epidemic» of killer diseases — obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer — on changes in the American diet that had occurred in the previous fifty years, specifically the increase in «fatty and cholesterol - rich foods.»

This was also the precise diet that failed to halt obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemics in generations of Americans.

Added sugar is associated with the epidemics of obesity and diabetes, and high sugar intake has also been linked to cardiovascular disease and some cancers.

the obesity and diabetes epidemics are a direct result of the misleading cholesterol campaign.