Sentences with phrase «in obesity prevalence»

Kingsley Manning, chair of the Health and Social Care Information Centre, said: «The first drop in obesity prevalence among year six stands out, although we will need to see what the numbers say in future years to determine if this is the start of a decline or more of a blip.»

(2) There has also been an improvement in the obesity prevalence as determined by BMI.

For the new study, they compared the gap in obesity prevalence between students in states with strict lunch standards in 2006 and 2007 - before the new regulations took place - to states with less restrictive regulations.

Overall, the researchers found students who received free or reduced - price lunches were more obese than students who did not take part in the USDA program, but the gap in obesity prevalence was much smaller in states with strict lunch standards.

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Conclusions A 20 % tax on sugar sweetened drinks would lead to a reduction in the prevalence of obesity in the UK of 1.3 % (around 180000 people).

We used the estimates generated to derive the change in energy intake, which we then used to model the effect on average body weight and prevalence of obesity in the UK (fig 1 ⇓).

Objective To model the overall and income specific effect of a 20 % tax on sugar sweetened drinks on the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the UK.

Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980 - 2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Over a time frame of > 30 y, downward trends in the availability of sugars and sweeteners, reported intake of energy in the form of added sugars and SSBs, and industry data on sugar contributions to SSBs have been paralleled by a sustained rise in the prevalence of obesity and its comorbidities (42).

In Crowle and Turner's view therefore, it is unlikely that banning the advertising of energy - dense food would significantly address childhood obesity prevalence.

The rising prevalence of obesity in the face of apparently falling intake of added sugars challenges the widespread belief that energy from sugars is uniquely linked to changes in the incidence of obesity.

Australia, like other developed nations, has experienced a steep 3-fold increase in the prevalence of adult obesity within a 30 - y time frame.

Between 1980 and 2013, the combined worldwide age - standardized prevalence of overweight and obesity rose 28 % in adults and 47 % in children (1).

Overall and income specific effect on prevalence of overweight and obesity of 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in UK: econometric and comparative risk assessment modelling study

For Australian boys, obesity prevalence climbed 4-fold from 7 % in childhood to 28 % in adulthood.

The findings challenge the widespread belief that energy from added sugars or sugars in solution are uniquely linked to the prevalence of obesity.

This Youth Fitness Coalition (YFC) signature program, in partnership with American College of Sports Medicine's Exercise is Medicine ® initiative, promotes physical activity to children in order to decrease the prevalence of childhood obesity.

At the end of the year, after adjusting for the baseline prevalence of being overweight, the authors found a 31 % decrease in the risk of obesity in the intervention group.

This finding is surprising, experts say, because the highest prevalence of obesity occurs in some of the more active groups - black and Mexican American children.

Due to the prevalence of childhood obesity in this country, many pediatricians advise parents to watch the portion sizes and calories they give to their preschoolers.

With the prevalence of childhood obesity in this country and the abundance of research that corroborates that childhood obesity is a strong risk factor for adult obesity, children's diets and nutrition are under scrutiny.

«With childhood obesity prevalence in Chicago at nearly twice the national average, it is important that we make healthy options more available and accessible to Chicagoans wherever they live, work, learn and play.»

Prevalence of overweight and obesity in Irish school children, using four different definitions

Cognitive, language, and motor development increase with nursing; allergies, respiratory issues, diabetes, and obesity all decrease in prevalence with nursing.

We know from the prevalence of obesity in the United States that's a huge problem.

Prevalence and risk factors for overweight and obesity in children from Seychelles, a country in rapid transition: the importance of early growth

The prevalence of obesity and diabetes is low, but rising steadily, and the Indian Health Service dentists told me that they see plenty of little kids with rotted teeth from drinking sodas and sweet juices in baby bottles.

Considerable attention has focused on diet and physical activity patterns, both in childhood and adult life, and on the associated increases in the prevalence of obesity (1).

Ominously, obesity in children is rising nationwide and the prevalence of Type II diabetes in children is becoming more and more common.

However, the association is not as clear in adolescents, an age group that is known to lack adequate sleep and have an overweight and obesity prevalence rate of 30 % in the US.

This has led not only to an obesity epidemic, but also to a rapid increase in the prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which is due to extensive accumulation of fat in the liver and resembles alcoholic liver disease in people who do not exceed two drinks a day of alcohol.

Professor Morris said a greater understanding of the role of energy rich foods and dieting on microbial changes is important, given the current obesity epidemic and the prevalence of yo - yo dieting in Western countries.

«In the analysis of obesity prevalence across 170 countries, we have found that sugar availability in a nation explains 50 % of obesity variation while meat availability another 50 In the analysis of obesity prevalence across 170 countries, we have found that sugar availability in a nation explains 50 % of obesity variation while meat availability another 50 in a nation explains 50 % of obesity variation while meat availability another 50 %.

That's the question being raised by a team of researchers from the University of Adelaide, who say meat in the modern diet offers surplus energy, and is contributing to the prevalence of global obesity.

Given that there are very few bits of hard evidence of obesity prevalence available historically in such a wide range of countries, the authors of the report have made pretty good use of the data, says Lobstein.

«Our hypothesis was that there is increased prevalence of cerebral microbleeds in MS because progression of that disease is associated with increased likelihood of cardiovascular comorbidities, including hypertension, altered lipid metabolism, overweight / obesity, smoking and diabetes and migraine, all risk factors for cerebral microbleeds,» he said.

These results suggest that without valid population - level data, speculations regarding the role of energy intake in the rise in the prevalence of obesity are without empirical support, he said.

The rising prevalence of obesity — now present in more than one - third of US adults — has had a major impact on healthcare and related costs.

«The increase in the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity, which began in the 1970s, has grown into a global epidemic.

Professor Yajun Chen, from the School of Public Health at Sun Yat - Sen University, in Guangzhou said: «The prevalence of obesity in China is alarming as the country undergoes rapid economic transition, leading to changes to traditional diet, increased sedentary lifestyles and reduced physical activity.

Obesity prevalence in the US has tripled over the last 50 years.

While the mechanism by which a significant weight loss can reduce asthma - associated risks is unknown, studies have linked obesity to increased inflammation, higher prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux disease, and physical changes in the airway — all of which could contribute to asthma severity.

Based on the emerging evidence for the existence of the very interesting extreme metabolic phenotypes metabolically healthy obesity and metabolically unhealthy normal weight the scientist then studied the prevalence of the 4 at - risk phenotypes among the different BMI categories (normal weight, overweight, and obese) in subjects with NGR and prediabetes.

The prevalence of high fructose corn syrup found in products like soda pop is also strongly linked to a rise in obesity rates.

Analyzing the baseline risk factors and health conditions of patients in each grouping, they found the average age of STEMI patients decreased from 64 to 60, and the prevalence of obesity increased from 31 to 40 percent between the first five - year span and the last five - year span.

However, there has been a dramatic increase in the prevalence of obesity over the past 50 years, which is far too little time for changes in the genome to have occurred.

Data from 1980 to 2013 show that the biggest increases in the prevalence of obesity in women occurred in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Honduras and Bahrain, and for men, in New Zealand, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United States.

«Furthermore, recent NHANES data demonstrate that obesity prevalence in the United States also appears to have stabilized, which also may contribute to the stabilizing prevalence of the metabolic syndrome.»

West Virginia and Mississippi fare the worst, with obesity prevalence now at 35.1 percent; Colorado gets a gold star for coming in at 21.3 percent.

Considering the high prevalence of obesity and the continued rise of its most severe forms, the finding that maternal overweight and obesity are related to rates of cerebral palsy in a dose - response manner may have serious public health implications.»