Sentences with phrase «epidemic levels as»

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.

Sexually transmitted diseases have reached epidemic levels as young people have contracted chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis.

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Every era has its health crisis, and as obesity rates in the U.S. population continue to soar to epidemic levels, sugar has become public enemy number one.

The campaign is part of a larger effort by Hilton Worldwide's flagship brand to combat «Vacationitis,» defined as an «epidemic creating high levels of stress and claiming countless hours of unused vacation time as it spreads among employees who have not taken enough time off this year.»

IAS, WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, Consensus Statement, «Asking the Right questions: Advancing an HIV Research Agenda for Women and Children», dated 8 March, 2010 IBFAN, Press Release 2012 on the Right to Adequate Food, Digest of the «Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food to the Human Right Council (A / HRC / 19 / 59)» IYCN Project Preventing malnutrition of mothers and children within the context of HIV and emergencies (Haiti) UNICEF 2011, Levels & trends in child mortality, Report 2011 US Expert Panel Report & Recommendations to the US Congress and US Global AIDS Coordinator Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV, Jan 2010, Summary of successes and challenges of PMTCT, as well as recommendations for improved implementation UNAIDS 2011, Countdown to Zero: Global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, 2011 - 2015 UNAIDS 2011 (with WHO and UNICEF) Global epidemic update UNICEF 2011, Levels & trends in child mortality, Report 2011

As the opioid epidemic continues across the country, one graduate student is working on the collegiate level to provide a support system to treat opioid and other types of addiction on campus.

He also looked at the impact of behavioral changes that individuals would willingly adopt in the event of an epidemic — such as avoiding public spaces, limiting leisure activities and working at home — in connection with varying levels of intervention.

Since 2007 World Heath Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS) have promoted adult male circumcision as an additional means to fight HIV transmission in sub-Saharan countries with a high prevalence of the virus, low levels of male circumcision, and generalized heterosexual HIV epidemics.

Yet, when population levels of immunity drop, then these potentially lethal infectious diseases that had been prevented in the past will reappear in sporadic outbreaks or, dangerously, as large - scale epidemics.

Although fatty liver disease usually does not progress to dangerous levels of liver inflammation, the condition is an increasing concern as its rates climb in the worldwide obesity epidemic, says Samir Softic, M.D., first author on a paper in the Journal of Clinical Investigation describing the research.

This statement replaces the outdated 1998 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement «Cholesterol in Childhood,» which has been retired.3 New data emphasize the negative effects of excess dietary intake of saturated and trans fats and cholesterol as well as the effect of carbohydrate intake, the obesity epidemic, the metabolic / insulin - resistance syndrome, and the decreased level of physical activity and fitness on the risk of adult - onset CVD.

The constant stimulation of the production of insulin may and does at epidemic levels in the United States, eventually lead to insulin resistance, a condition known as type 2 diabetes.

The study's researchers advised that considering the current epidemic levels of insulin resistance as seen in the massive numbers of type 2 diabetes cases and obesity, reducing intake of refined carbs and sugar along with weight control should be a top priority in the public's dietary goals.

The only proof you really need to this fact is the insurmountable amount of carb / fat laden junk food and processed food that we consume as a society that in great part has resulted in the epidemic levels of obesity (1/3 of all US adults) in the United States.

As the obesity epidemic in the United States reaches record levels there is much more that needs to be done to find a solution.

And neither is maintaining a healthy BMI or cholesterol level — as all sorts of «epidemic - level» data in our society today reveals.

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Donors and national governments should put multi-hazard early warning systems in place to alert officials to both slow - and rapid - onset disasters, as well as epidemics, before they reach full emergency levels.

WHEREAS, as documented in the PBS film Breaking the Silence: The Children's Stories, there are epidemic levels of abuse and dysfunction in our courts system where espoused judges repeat Richard Gardner's unsubstantiated doctrine and make binding recommendations in conjunction with PAS therapists and PAS attorneys; and