Sentences with phrase «efforts obesity rates»

Thanks to big governmental financial and public efforts obesity rates are stabilizing.

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«Focusing efforts in communities within Alabama and Mississippi, where we see some of the highest obesity rates in the country, is a tremendous step forward.

«Focusing efforts in the Mississippi Delta, where we see some of the highest obesity rates in the country, is a tremendous step forward.

The move is part of a renewed effort to boost U.S. rates of breastfeeding, which is known to confer a wide range of health benefits from reducing obesity to boosting immunity and is recommended for at least a baby's first six months of life.

«The House bill would undermine the effort to provide kids with more nutritious food and would be a major step backwards for the health of American children, just at the time childhood obesity rates are finally starting to level off,» he said.

The other anti-obesity efforts mentioned by Emanuel and Steinmetz are certainly worthwhile, but none of them are the «power tools» we need to significantly chip away at existing obesity rates.

Obama's obesity initiative comes at a time when breastfeeding advocates are intensifying their efforts to understand why African American women have the lowest breastfeeding rates in the country.

It's part of a nationwide effort to get kids eating healthier and battle high rates of childhood obesity and associated health problems.

I point that out to show that nutrition and weight management are not inherently «anti fat,» it's just that with the obesity rate doubling in the past 30 years in this country, it is not surprising that most public health nutrition efforts are concentrated on that particular problem.

In an effort to halt the rising rates of childhood obesity, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement, Snacks, Sweetened Beverages, Added Sugars, and Schools, recommends families take a broader approach to nutrition, considering children's whole diet pattern — rather than simply the amount of sugar, fat, or specific nutrients in individual foods.

Mayor Bloomberg's name has been drawn into the debate over a proposed 1 peso - per - liter tax on soft drinks to fund weight - control efforts in Mexico, which now has higher obesity rates than the US.

With obesity rates climbing during the past 20 years within the United States and colon cancer being the second - leading killer of men and women in the nation, these facts compelled Fenton and her team to conduct research which could identify the specific biomarkers of obesity and early - stage colon cancer and help in prevention efforts.

Efforts to lower childhood obesity rates often focus on adding «good» foods, rather than on avoiding «bad foods,» she said.

Despite a growing number of efforts to reduce childhood obesity in recent years — and even some data showing declines — new data shows the rates of overweight or obese children continue to rise in the U.S., with severe obesity increasing significantly.

Ironically, the sharp increase in obesity rates can be tied to efforts by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to ostensibly make Americans healthier.

In an effort to decode the reasons behind higher obesity rates in Labs, veterinary surgeon and geneticist Eleanor Raffan, of the University of Cambridge, set out to discover whether or not there's a biological basis for excessive food - motivation and higher obesity rates in Labradors.

I've seen fascinating efforts lately to use new software and graphics tools to visualize sets of data ranging from flights over the United States in a 24 - hour period to patterns of obesity onset and weight loss in the Framingham heart study to work charting relationships between child mortality, income and fertility rates.

In Recommendation 1 of its final report, the COAG Reform Council identifies the «higher rates of obesity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as an area that requires further attention from COAG as part of its efforts to achieve life expectancy equality».