Sentences with phrase «for obesity researchers»

Understanding how body fat works to keep mice warm is particularly important for obesity researchers.

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A Ted Talk by British researcher Richard Wilkinson, for example, focuses on the harm to society that results from economic inequality — notably the gaps within (not between) societies, which includes life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality, crime, teenage births, obesity and mental illness.

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.

«The researchers from Deakin University calling for the ban claim BPA can lead to diabetes and obesity.

In this systematic review, the researchers investigate whether the disclosure of potential financial conflicts of interest (for example, research funding by a beverage company) has influenced the results of systematic reviews undertaken to examine the association between the consumption of highly lucrative sugar - sweetened beverages (SSBs) and weight gain or obesity.

Prenatal exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), a common chemical used in plastic water bottles and canned food, is associated with measures of obesity in children at age 7, according to researchers from the Columbia Center for Children's...

In a fascinating new study published in the journal Obesity, researchers found that cutting sugar in children's diets for just ten days caused marked improvements in their metabolic health - despite the fact that the sugar was replaced by other... [Continue reading]

So researchers suspect that imposing restrictions — like a strict infant feeding schedule — are counterproductive for preventing obesity.

Rapid weight gain in an infant's first six months of life is a risk factor for child - and adulthood obesity, according to researchers.

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

Researchers on this project included lead author Ian M. Paul, Jennifer S. Savage and Michele E. Marini, Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Penn State College of Health and Human Development and others.

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.

Involvement in sports, for example, was tied to a lower risk of obesity in boys but not girls and drinking milk was linked to lowered risk among girls but not boys, according to researchers from the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor.

The researchers computed a genetic risk score for each participant based on 76 common variants known to be associated with elevated risk of obesity, and analyzed this score in the context of accelerometer data and participants» BMIs.

According to the researchers, if future studies confirm these preliminary results, childhood obesity interventions may need to be different for boys and girls.

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.»

The findings could offer scientists a new target for developing drugs against obesity and other appetite - related disorders, the researchers say.

In a bit of good news — bad news the researchers claim that whereas the U.S. may not reach the 42 percent obesity rate for another 40 years, their projection is a best - case scenario — it could be higher.

A tax on sugar - sweetened beverages such as sodas, energy drinks, sweet teas, and sports drinks would reduce obesity in adolescents more than other policies, such as exercise or an advertising ban, and would also generate significant revenue for additional obesity prevention activities, say researchers writing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

The researchers defined obesity as having a BMI around 19 or higher for a 5 - year - old up to around 30 or higher for a 19 - year - old.

A team in Japan is testing it in people who are at high risk of diabetic kidney disease, and researchers hope to launch clinical trials in the United States for conditions such as obesity.

The researchers identified notable spikes between 2014 and 2016 in obesity for preschool boys, which rose from 8.5 percent to 14.2 percent, and girls aged 16 to 19, whose rates of obesity jumped from 35.6 percent to 47.9 percent.

Now, Salk researchers have discovered how the molecule ERRγ gives this «healthier» brown fat its energy - expending identity, making those cells ready to warm you up when you step into the cold, and potentially offering a new therapeutic target for diseases related to obesity.

With rising rates of inactivity and obesity, the researchers wanted to know if there was a relationship between clusters of risk factors for cognitive decline, and how lifestyle factors might help prevent or delay it.

If you're interested in studying obesity, for example, be sure that institution or program has researchers working on obesity.

«Obesity and aging are both prevalent and increasing in societies worldwide, but the consequences for the central nervous system are not well understood,» says Bart Eggen, lead author of the study and a researcher at the University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands.

Dogs and cats now suffer from obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and more, just like humans, and researchers are now investigating common risk factors for pets and owners

«Researchers widely acknowledge that receiving inadequate sleep is a serious problem and can potentially contribute to a variety of health complications, such as a weakened immune system or an increased risk for obesity and diabetes,» says Dr. Laura Scheinfeldt, lead author on the paper and a research scientist at Coriell.

Exposure to lead during early development can alter the the gut microbiota, increasing the chances for obesity in adulthood, researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health have found.

«We believe this research has implications for a wide range of people, from basic scientists who are interested in how reward processing changes across the lifespan, to obesity researchers looking to devise interventions to curb childhood obesity, to parents and pediatricians trying to raise healthier and happier kids,» says Silvers.

For example, researchers reported in a much touted 2006 Science article that they had discovered a gene variant that seemed to confer a risk for obesity, and they replicated the results in four human populatioFor example, researchers reported in a much touted 2006 Science article that they had discovered a gene variant that seemed to confer a risk for obesity, and they replicated the results in four human populatiofor obesity, and they replicated the results in four human populations.

Schrock: Well, other researchers — I think there is a group at the University of Minnesota — are looking into the possibility of treating cocaine addiction with other kinds of rewards, so that's definitely an area they are going to look into and they also think it has implications for obesity because if sugar is this addicting and if we can treat it like an addiction, we may be able to curb this obesity epidemic.

Researchers have been trying to track down what causes obesity, looking at potential triggers such as artificial sweeteners and the almost inescapable prevalence of food for sale.

«This question has been around for at least 40 years,» says David Allison, an obesity researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), who was not part of the research.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have, for the first time, described the sequence of early cellular responses to a high - fat diet, one that can result in obesity - induced insulin resistance and diabetes.

Placing children into a mixed reality - part virtual environment and part real world - has great potential for increasing their physical activity and decreasing their risk of obesity, according to University of Georgia researchers.

For the first time, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health studied the effects of gestational weight gain on childhood obesity risk among a multi-ethnic urban population.

By analyzing genetic samples for over half a million individuals as part of the GIANT research project, which aims to identify genes that regulate human body and size, researchers found more than 100 locations across the genome that play roles in various obesity traits.

The men also gave blood so that researchers could test for hormones linked to appetite and obesity, such as leptin and ghrelin.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified how a promising drug in clinical trials for the treatment of obesity and related metabolic disorders improves the metabolism of sugar by generating a new signal between fat cells and the liver.

Maternal diet during pregnancy and lactation may prime offspring for weight gain and obesity later in life, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers, who looked at rats whose mothers consumed a high - fat diet and found that the offspring's feeding controls and feelings of fullness did not function normally.

In the same study, for those who were sleep deprived, «self - reported hunger and appetite ratings significantly increased by 24 percent and 23 percent, respectively,» noted the authors of the review paper, which was led by Julie Shlisky, a researcher at The New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center at Saint Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center.

And now that more than 35 percent of U.S. adults are currently obese, researchers have been searching for potential links between the two conditions, in hopes of reducing the increasing health and economic burden of obesity.

Researchers from Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified obesity as a possible risk factor for clostridium difficile infection (CDI).

To illustrate the power of the innovative technique, the TSRI researchers used it to identify a compound that shows promise for treating obesity - linked diabetes.

Ancient trysts between Neanderthals and modern humans may have influenced modern risks for depression, heart attacks, nicotine addiction, obesity and other health problems, researchers said.

Researchers followed a large group of participants, equally divided between people with obesity and without, for eight years.

He and the other researchers followed a group of 67,278 patients — half with obesity and half without — for eight years.

In findings published today in the International Journal for Obesity, School of Health Sciences researchers showed in a randomised controlled trial, that taking a two - week break during dieting may improve weight loss.

With the risk for obesity - associated diseases significantly higher for men than women, researchers compared how mice from each sex reacted to high - fat diets.