Sentences with phrase «later obesity risk»

Can infant feeding choices modulate later obesity risk?

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But it places athletes at a high risk for burn - out later in life, which can prevent them from maintaining healthy habits into adulthood and steering clear of problems such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

When a baby gains too quickly with bottle - feeding, the risk of obesity later in life is increased.

(2) Among 60,000 Japanese adults, the combination of late - night eating plus skipping breakfast was associated with a greater risk of diabetes, heart disease and obesity.

That's because breast milk — custom - made nourishment specially formulated by Mother Nature — offers so many benefits: It boosts your baby's immune system, promotes brain development, and may reduce your child's risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) as well as diabetes, some types of cancer, obesity, high cholesterol, and asthma later in life.

And staying fit can improve self - esteem, prevent obesity, and decrease the risk of serious illnesses such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease later in life.

It came up at christmas dinner; at one point, the topic of breastfeeding came up, and my spouse's uncle started to say «I know breastfeeding reduces the risk of allergies later» and, expecting him to move on to obesity and IQ and whatever else he was about to say, I just said «No, that's not true», and started trying to explain the difference between correlation and causation, and the difficulties with prospective studies and confounding factors, etc..

Although the observational studies that underlie our models all adjusted for multiple confounders, including known risk factors for the disease outcomes of interest, risk factors for early breastfeeding cessation such as preterm birth, preeclampsia, and obesity are also risk factors for metabolic disease in later life.

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

Early investments in prevention of low birth weight and stunting, and early initiation of and exclusive breastfeeding, contribute to reducing the risk of later obesity and chronic diseases.

A systematic review of some of the long - term effects of breastfeeding showed that there may be a link between breastfeeding and later - in - life healthy blood pressure, lowered chance of obesity and diabetes, and some studies showed a decreased risk of high cholesterol.

Breastfeeding lowers your baby's risk for childhood obesity and for type 2 diabetes later in life.

Brabeck - Letmathe's profession of concern over the obesity epidemic in North America is ironic, and frankly disingenuous, considering Nestlé is the world's largest producer of infant formula — a product which has been shown to substantially increase the risk of obsesity later in life.

Formula - fed babies are at risk for the introduction of solid food too early in life (3 to 4 months old), and early solid food introduction places children at a higher risk of obesity later in life.

Tired kids are more emotional and more at risk of developing obesity and chronic disease in later life, so you really want to address that.

But did you know that formula feeding increases the risk that a child will develop obesity later in life?

A mounting body of evidence suggests that breastfeeding may also play a role in programming noncommunicable disease risk later in life (2 - 13) including protection against overweight and obesity in childhood (2 - 6).

By moderating the impact of physiological processes that promote weight gain during infancy, breastfeeding might assist in «programming» an individual to be at reduced risk for overweight and obesity later in life (20).

What's more, being attentive and nurturing with your baby at any time of the day — mealtime or not — helps little ones to develop emotional, cognitive and behavioral self - regulation skills that, later in life, have been linked to handling stress better and lower risk of obesity.

Breastfed babies can gain «lots and lots» of weight in the first year, explains Gourley, but they'll still have a lower risk of obesity later in life, because of the powerful protective factors of breast milk.

Pregnant women and breastfeeding mums eating a diet rich in junk food are placing their babies at risk of obesity and early - onset diabetes in later life.

My take - away message from this study is that any mother who supplements her newborn (whether with expressed milk, donor milk, or formula) should learn the appropriate amount to feed so she can prevent the kind of rampant oversupplementation that undermines breastfeeding and increases later risk of obesity.

The increase in breastfeeding moms is good news for babies — it means they're less likely to experience gastrointestinal or ear infections, be at risk for obesity later in life and develop diabetes.

In January 2010, «Start4Life» was launched with the aim of helping frontline staff deliver the Healthy Child Programme, supporting pregnant women and the parents of 0 - 2 year olds in establishing good feeding and activity habits for babies, to help reduce the risk of obesity in later life.

The findings are now helping us to trial new nutritional interventions before and during pregnancy to reduce the baby's risk of obesity in childhood and later life, and strengthen the view that effective prevention of childhood obesity has to begin before the baby is born.

Compared with newborns of non-diabetic women, children of diabetic mothers with poorly controlled glycaemia show neurophysiological impairment and have a higher risk for metabolic syndrome, obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus in later life.»

Early to mid-life obesity appears to be linked to heightened risk of dementia in later life, researchers report.

«Early to mid-life obesity linked to heightened risk of dementia in later life.»

«The benefit of the study is it may help in the identification of a high - risk group of children who may require specific interventions to prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes later in life,» she says.

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 is known that accelerated growth in the first years of life may increase the risk of obesity in later childhood.

However, this risk is much lower than that associated with other factors such as obesity, alcohol consumption and later maternal age.

Professor Peymané Adab, Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology & Public Health, said: «This study contributes to existing evidence for sleep duration as a risk factor for obesity in childhood, and later bedtime as an additional risk factor — regardless of sleep duration.

Some colleagues have told him they can't worry about a later risk of asthma or obesity when their patient might not make it out of the NICU alive.

The authors pointed out that earlier studies have indicated that the higher risk of overgrowth seen in newborns of obese women may predispose these infants to obesity and cardiovascular disease later in life.

But as a group they're at a higher risk for low birth weight, which is associated with obesity, hypertension and type 2 diabetes later in life.

After analyzing the medical records of more than 1,000 women who gave birth between the ages of 15 and 24, investigators from the University of Michigan conclude that physicians caring for adolescent women should use BMI before pregnancy as a strong predictor of whether a young mother will gain too much weight during pregnancy, a risk factor for later obesity.

«Eating a high fat, high sugar diet has long been known to be a major risk factor for obesity and pre-diabetes and our latest work brings us one step closer to understanding how and why,» Professor James explained.

«Our theory is that the mother's metabolism programs her child's metabolism in a manner that may have consequences for the child's obesity and diabetes risk later in life.»

Researchers emphasize that, despite comparably lower PAR values, the importance of obesity as a risk factor may be seen in later years and could be through its mediating effect on diabetes.

A growing number of analyses have found a convincing link among a heavier mother - to - be, increases in her baby's birth weight, and the child's later risk of obesity.

Interrupting their development with antibiotics disturbs the metabolism of young mice and boosts their risk of obesity later on.

As in prior studies among older adults, we found that obesity was associated with a decreased risk of dementia, consistent with the hypothesis that, while obesity in mid-life may increase risk for later - life cognitive decline and dementia, obesity at older ages may be associated with cognitive and other health advantages.25 - 27 The trend toward a declining risk for dementia in the face of a large increase in the prevalence of diabetes suggests that improvements in treatments between 2000 and 2012 may have decreased dementia risk, along with the documented declines in the incidence of common diabetes - related complications, such as heart attack, stroke, and amputations.11 Our finding of a significant decline between 2000 and 2012 of the heart disease - related OR for dementia would also be consistent with improved cardiovascular treatments leading to a decline in dementia risk.

Delayed puberty has been associated with psychosocial problems, as well as, with a risk of later obesity and cardiovascular disease.

Currently, she is using imaging techniques to explore the effects of glucose on brain responses to food cues in children who are at - risk for developing obesity and / or diabetes later in life.

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.

(Those who are overweight have a BMI of 25 to 29.9) Obesity increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, some types of cancer, and even dementia later in life.

Studies show late - night noshers increase their obesity risk, plus let's face it: you're probably not eating wild - caught salmon and Brussels sprouts at 11 p.m.!

So morning sunlight helps you out in two major ways: It makes you feel alert and cheery now, and it promotes sleep later, which itself is associated with a bevy of benefits (from better memory and brain development to decreased risk of diabetes, colds, heart disease, and obesity).

Obesity increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, some types of cancer, and even dementia later in life.