Sentences with phrase «higher than obesity»

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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.»

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

4) Weight Control: As part of a calorie - conscious eating regime, almonds, which are high in monounsaturated fats, can help obese adults lose weight easier than a diet high in complex carbohydrates, according to a study in the International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders.

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According to Baleka, the average life expectancy for a long - haul truck driver in the U.S. is 61 to 64 years (10 to 15 years less than the average American male); truck drivers have the highest rate of obesity of any occupation in the U.S. (86 % are overweight, 69 % are obese); they have one of the highest rates of metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes; in some years they have had the highest number of fatalities of any occupation, making trucking one of the most dangerous and unhealthy occupations in the U.S.

The Belarus PROBIT study showed that obesity was actually 17 % HIGHER in the randomized breastfeeding group than in the formula group (and yes it was statistically significant).

The USA has higher rates of HIV, obesity, poor access to antenatal care, gestational diabetes, drug addiction and pre-eclampsia than many developed nations.

More than one third of children eating school lunches already have one of three disease risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels or obesity, said Deborah Rees, a dietitian for the Illinois association's nutrition and education training program.

She's all for combating hunger, but Chicago's child obesity rate is 28 percent, that's 1.5 times higher than the national average, and offering extra food to kids who already ate at home is bound to make that worse.

I would still take my c - section babies being actually born alive with a higher risk of diabetes / obesity / asthma than I would them dying during birth all day every day.

Results: «The proportion of overweight / obesity was higher among breakfast skippers (boys: 43.9 %, girls: 30.5 %) than regular breakfast eaters (boys: 31.2 %, girls: 22.7 %)....

A new Brazilian study has concluded that babies born by C section are not at risk of obesity and that their risk of piling on the pounds is no higher than that of babies delivered vaginally.

These unhealthy habits contribute to the United States» abysmal childhood obesity statistics, but such habits start earlier than kids» high school years.

Schools that serve children of color, who are at much higher risk of childhood obesity than white children, have been conspicuously missing from the debate and experts say the opposition could negatively impact the NSLP in the long run.

That said, I am not convinced that high fructose corn syrup intrinsically «causes» obesity, nor do I think that consuming 15 teaspoons of cane sugar a day is any healthier than that same amount of high fructose corn syrup.

There is a big difference in child and adult obesity rates in France, with northern regions having higher rates of obesity than in the southern regions of France.

District officials were alarmed last year when preliminary data collected by school nurses showed that Chicago children, from preschool to 3rd grade, have higher levels of obesity than the general U.S. population.

These areas have been found to have higher rates of childhood obesity and cancer than areas that have convenient access to healthful foods.

She added: «The debate around this important issue has been based on high emotions and subjective opinions rather than a sensible dialogue about how we can tackle childhood obesity.»

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.

Results were similar in analyses of sleep patterns; among participants with some genetic risk of obesity, those who woke up frequently or slept more restlessly had higher BMIs than those who slept more efficiently.

«Could there be a reason why heart disease patients or diabetics or even just obesity maybe would get exposed to higher levels of BPA than the rest of us?»

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.

The model predicted that all three policies could reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity, particularly among blacks and Hispanics, who have higher rates of obesity than whites, thus demonstrating that federal policy could alter the childhood obesity epidemic.

Tobacco, obesity, diabetes, high alcohol intake and a family history of pancreatic cancer are all recognised risk factors for the disease, but explain less than 40 % of cases and important causes of the increasing trends yet have to be identified.

For example, Brian Wansink and colleagues at the Food and Brand Laboratory at Cornell University noticed that people with a high body mass index (BMI) sit on average 5 metres closer to a buffet than those with an average BMI, and 71 per cent face the food, compared with 26 per cent of people of average weight (Obesity, vol 16, p 1957).

DeCicco - Skinner and her colleagues assumed cancer proliferation would benefit from higher - than - normal BMI because of the epidemiological link between obesity and cancer.

Soda consumers may be getting a much higher dose of the harmful sugar fructose than they have been led to believe, according to a new study by the Childhood Obesity Research Center (CORC) at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), part of Keck Medicine of USC.

Rheumatoid arthritis patients are likelier than the average person to develop chronic kidney disease, and more severe inflammation in the first year of rheumatoid arthritis, corticosteroid use, high blood pressure and obesity are among the risk factors, new Mayo Clinic research shows.

The genetic variant was uncovered during a genomic analysis of more than 5000 people in Samoa, where obesity rates are among the highest in the world.

According to this explanation, patients with longstanding RA who reached normal or underweight BMI have higher observed mortality and are relatively less healthy than RA patients who maintained obesity or overweight.

Although obesity is known to increase the risk for gestational diabetes, the likelihood of gestational diabetes was higher for non-obese women reporting depression than for obese women with depression.

The statement is based on a review of existing scientific research published in peer - reviewed medical journals that documents a strong association between adverse experiences in childhood and teen years and a greater likelihood of developing risk factors such as obesity, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes earlier than those not experiencing adverse experiences.

Other researchers say rising rates of obesity and insulin resistance, linked to increased consumption of refined carbohydrates, are better predictors of heart disease than high cholesterol.

More than half of TKR patients have a body mass index (BMI) within the obesity range (greater than 30 kg / m ²), which has been linked to a higher risk for related comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis; and in some studies, to higher medical costs and longer hospital stays.

By contrast, more than 25 percent of the high - birthweight infants met the criteria for obesity or overweight.

Paradoxically, with obesity, blood (and therefore brain) triglyceride levels are higher than average.

Those with remitted ADHD had relatively higher obesity rates than the persistent - ADHD men, although the small number of men with persistent ADHD makes it difficult to draw any substantial conclusions about this difference.

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.

These factors were a low albumin level (less than 3 grams per deciliter, or g / dL), weight loss greater than 10 percent of body weight six months before the operation, and obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 kilograms per square meter or higher.

The study builds on an earlier study by the researchers that compared soybean oil to a high fructose diet and found soybean oil causes more obesity and diabetes than coconut oil.

Variants that increase the chance of obesity or high blood pressure, for example, appear to boost CHD risk more strongly than variants that alter insulin or glucose levels.

Studies show Southeast Asians are particularly prone to visceral obesity, which may help explain why India has such a high rate of type 2 diabetes — more than 12 percent of the population is affected, nearly twice as high as the U.S. incidence.

Obesity is associated in general with cancer, but the link with breast cancer is especially striking: In one recent large study, the most overweight women were at a 58 % higher risk than women of normal weight.

Working in a Stanford - funded lab on the island country, the scientists report that they already have identified more than 20 individual lemurs with unique genetic traits, including obesity, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, cardiac arrhythmias, progressive eye disease and motor and personality disorders.

Whilst lean diets are associated with normal levels of leptin, obesity causes levels to rise and remain consistently higher than normal.

Of the 40 children with obesity who completed the study, the 18 who were rated high - impulsivity had a greater drop in BMI than the lower - impulsivity obese children.

Sensitivity was higher in women (64 %, 95 % CI 63 - 65) than in men (53 %, 95 % CI 51 - 55), and increased with the prevalence of 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.

More often than not, this results with overindulging in high - carb foods and some experts believe this to be the root of the current global obesity epidemic.