Sentences with phrase «health than obesity»

To the make this point more poignant, research recently stated that loneliness can be more hazardous to your health than obesity or smoking!

It sounds outlandish, but Seppälä insists that, according to one study at least «lack of social connection is a greater detriment to health than obesity, smoking and high blood pressure.»

Not exact matches

The Center for Human Sleep Science found that getting less than seven hours of sleep a nigh can be linked to medical ailments like cancer, obesity and poor mental health.

Fewer than that has been linked with health problems including cardiovascular disease, obesity, depression and injuries.

Worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975 and the World Health Organization estimates that in 2016 more than 650 million adults were obese - with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more.

While declining sales may be bad for soft drink companies, they're good for a public health system straining under an obesity epidemic posing as much or more of a threat than cancer.

Even health issues more commonly associated with the West, such as obesity, type - 2 diabetes and heart disease, are rising fast in developing nations — faster than their health systems can handle them.

«Our industry is acutely aware of its responsibilities,» she comments in the Food and Drink Federation report Delivering Healthy Growth, «whether tackling public health issues such as malnutrition or deficiency of certain nutrients in vulnerable groups or the growing challenge of obesity, or enabling consumers to make informed choices from a range of products than match modern lifestyles.

Obesity, a significant contributor to ill health, is defined as a BMI greater than or equal to 30 accompanied by excessive fat accumulation (World Health Organisation, health, is defined as a BMI greater than or equal to 30 accompanied by excessive fat accumulation (World Health Organisation, Health Organisation, 2017).

I am sure you did not mean to assume that women who are in shelters need formula more than you do, in fact, poor and minority women «need» it less; they are at greater risk for negative health consequences associated with formula like diabetes, obesity, heart disease, etc..

But «it appears that youth sports practices are making a less - than - optimal contribution to the public health goals of increasing physical activity and preventing childhood obesity.»

The study concluded that «youth sports practices are making a less - than - optimal contribution to the public health goals of increasing physical activity and preventing childhood obesity.»

Organic and fair trade food options are better than many processed and fast foods, but eating too much of them can still lead to health problems like obesity and diabetes.

This is hardly the consensus in the medical community, and given the ill effects that bottle - feeding can have (lower IQ's, greater risks of cancer, heart disease, obesity, infection etc. than breastfed babies) this promotion puts infant health at risk.

The estimated percentage of US children aged 2 to 5 years and 6 to 11 years classified as overweight increased from 5.0 % and 6.5 % in 1980 to 10.4 % and 19.6 %, respectively, in 2007 -2008.1-3 The increase in childhood obesity was also observed among those aged 6 to 23 months, from 7.2 % in 1980 to 11.6 % in 2000.1 Given the numerous health risks related to childhood obesity,4 - 7 its prevention is becoming a public health priority.8 It has been reported that feeding practices affect growth and body composition in the first year of life, with breastfed infants gaining less rapidly than formula - fed infants.9 - 14 There is also evidence that breastfed infants continue to have a low risk for later childhood obesity.15 - 18

But forcing a child to eat more than he wants sets up unhealthy eating habits and could even contribute to health problems, like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, later in life.

Women who reported a history of abuse were more likely to report the following symptoms: chronic pelvic pain, frequent feelings of fatigue, obesity, severe PMS, irritable bowel syndrome, frequent headaches, trouble sleeping, frequent vaginal infections, and overall less satisfaction with their physical health than their non-abused counterparts.

[iv] Obesity levels have more than tripled in many European countries since the 1980s and the related diseases are fast consuming health budgets.

That's basically the upshot of a somewhat less - than definitive today's Q poll, which found voters oppose «obesity tax or a fat tax on non-diet sugary soft drinks,» 66 - 31, unless they're told the proceeds would be used to fund health care.

Mr. Thompson said the City should focus on fighting obesity through other initiatives including improved health education, increasing access to healthy foods and improving recreation opportunities rather than by banning unhealthy options.

According to the Department of Health, direct costs caused by obesity are estimated to be # 4.2 billion per year and forecast to more than double by 2050 «if we carry on as we are.»

«Tackling obesity is a top priority for the government, and this change is part of our commitment to make the NHS a service that prevents ill health, as well as treating it - a wellbeing service, rather than a sickness service.»

They were more likely to have other health problems, such as congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, obesity and other issues, and to have cardiac arrest caused by problems other than a blood vessel blockage, such as pulmonary embolism.

These socio - demographic gaps are even wider for foreign - born Hispanics, but foreign - born Hispanics experience better health and fewer health risks than U.S. - born Hispanics for some key health indicators such as cancer, heart disease, obesity, hypertension, and smoking, the report said.

Researchers are now finding that more than the lungs are at risk, as dirty air may in fact be an accomplice to some of the greatest threats to public health, including diabetes, obesity and even dementia.

This view of the protein makes both biological and evolutionary sense, Campfield says, because starvation is a greater threat to most organisms than are the long - term health effects of obesity.

More than a year and a half ago, the UK's health minister, Jeremy Hunt, asked the health group I head, Action on Sugar, for advice on preventing childhood obesity.

«For an individual, it's probably still worse to smoke than be obese,» because smoking causes many acute health problems whereas obesity takes longer to corrode someone's health.

«However, unlike smoking, which substantially increases the likelihood of premature death (for example, mortality from lung cancer), obesity and associated Type 2 diabetes primarily lead to long - term disability, so that from a lifetime perspective, obesity could tax the health care system even more than smoking.»

With the management of type 2 diabetes and its risk factors (such as obesity and physical inactivity) being simpler and cheaper than treating complications of later stage disease, the researchers note that prevention of disease onset and complications will be crucial to improve health and avoid further economic burden.

It was developed by a team of nutrition, public health, and medical experts after the 1990 Nutritional Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) failed to reduce the nation's obesity rate and is currently available in more than 1,600 stores in the US.

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.

«Our study shows that individuals with obesity who consume artificial sweeteners, particularly aspartame, may have worse glucose management than those who don't take sugar substitutes,» says Professor Jennifer Kuk, obesity researcher in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science.

«Gestational weight gain greater than the IOM recommendations has long - term implications for weight - related health,» said Elizabeth Widen, PhD, RD, postdoctoral fellow at the New York Obesity Research Center in the Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, and Institute of Human Nutrition.

More than 1.9 billion adults worldwide meet the criteria for obesity or overweight, according to the World Health Organization.

The researchers aim to develop a real - time intervention that could stop unhealthy behaviors and reduce obesity, which affects more than one - third of adults and 17 percent of all children and teens in the United States, according to federal health statistics.

From an epidemiologic perspective, preeclampsia is growing at a rate more rapid than diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, and chronic kidney disease — diseases for which substantial research and treatment funding have been allocated,» explained senior investigator Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

Loneliness is creeping slowly with a deathly grip with more premature casualties and health risks than Obesity.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

Diet sodas can be no more than 25 percent of the items offered, the directive says.There should be «ample choices» of water, «soy milk, rice milk and other similar dairy or non dairy milk,» says the directive, which also covers fat and sugar content in vending machine snacks.It's all part of Newsom's effort to combat obesity and improve San Franciscans» health, similar to a national effort being championed by first lady Michelle Obama.The mayor's administration points to studies linking soda to obesity, including a UCLA one released last year that found adults who drink at least one soft drink a day are 27 percent more likely to be obese than those who don't, and that soda consumption is fueling the state's $ 41 billion annual obesity problem.

A 2013 study in the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care tracked the dairy intake and obesity rates of more than 1,500 middle - aged and older adults.

One of Australia's best known nutritionists, Rosemary Stanton is a prolific author of more than 30 books covering public health nutrition, obesity, women's health issues and nutrition for children.

«Whenever you cut calories, your metabolism slows down, often by more than you'd expect,» says Kevin Hall, PhD, an obesity researcher at the National Institutes of Health.

Further, loneliness is just bad for our health — statistically, for example, it increases risk of heart attack more than diabetes, smoking, and obesity combined.

We tend to perceive breakfast as far more important than other meals and we believe that skipping it will raise our risk of fat storage and obesity - related health issues.

In the United States, childhood obesity is an alarming health issue, or more like a growing epidemic that currently affects more than 30 % of American children.

A CDC National Center for Health Statistics study from the May 2008 Journal of the American Medical Association found that obesity rates have leveled off in school - age children, but more than 16 % of kids are still obese — a number that has nearly tripled since 1980.

More than 150 juicing recipes, as well as information on how to use raw juice to treat various health conditions, from cancer and obesity to ulcers and eczema, are in my forthcoming book, The Complete Book of Juicing, Revised and Updated: Your Delicious Guide to Youthful Vitality.

«Fat is more important than weight,» says Peter Katzmarzyk, associate executive director for population science at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La. «Excessive fatness is the definition of obesity, not excessive weight — and having too much fat can cause serious health problems.»

But in wealthy societies, obesity is a bigger health risk than being skinny, and there are vastly more people who suffer negative consequences from having too much body fat than too little.