Sentences with phrase «excessive weight gain and obesity»

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It keeps them physically active and fit and prevents childhood obesity and excessive weight gain, which can be the cause of many other health issues.

The AAP states that «excessive fruit juice can lead to excessive weight gain,» and that consumption can and does play a role in obesity.

In fact, nutritionists recommend upping food intake by only about 300 calories a day during the last two trimesters, and excessive weight gain by women during pregnancy is linked to obesity in their kids.

The researchers determined that excessive pregnancy weight gain was associated with greater overall and abdominal body fat in children and obesity at age seven.

A new Kaiser Permanente study, published in Pediatric Obesity, found that pre-pregnancy obesity and excessive weight gain during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of the child becoming overweight atObesity, found that pre-pregnancy obesity and excessive weight gain during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of the child becoming overweight atobesity and excessive weight gain during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of the child becoming overweight at age 2.

Indirectly, excessive amounts of alcohol, particularly beer, can lead to weight gain and obesity.

High blood sugar is linked to energy dips, excessive hunger, weight gain and increased risk of obesity and diabetes.

Regarding the child, the importance of the intrauterine and early postnatal environments for metabolic programming and modifications of the epigenome is increasingly recognised, 12 — 14 particularly for metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes.15 Thus, GDM is related to macrosomia at birth (> 4 kg), to excess body fat and (central) obesity and to insulin secretion in infants and children, the obesity being in part mediated by maternal body mass index (BMI) or birth weight.16 — 23 Intrauterine exposure to GDM also doubles the risk for subsequent type 2 diabetes in offspring compared with offspring of mothers with a high genetic predisposition for type 2 diabetes, but with normal glucose tolerance during the index pregnancy.24 Maternal prepregnancy overweight and excessive gestational weight gain also predict high birth weight and adiposity during infancy.12 25 This is highly relevant, as up to 60 % — 70 % of women with GDM are overweight or obese before pregnancy.26 Finally, maternal lifestyle behaviour such as a high fat diet or lack of physical activity during pregnancy can influence offspring adiposity independent of maternal obesity.12 27

Disordered eating (e.g., fasting, purging and binge eating)[6] and insufficient sleep (less than 7 h / night) are also common among adolescents and young adults [3]; these behaviors contribute alongside poor dietary quality and low physical activity levels to excessive weight gain and a high incidence of obesity during these life stages [4 — 7].