Sentences with phrase «major factor in»

Sugar has proved to be one of the most damaging substances to health and is a major factor in premature aging.

Addictions may be the cause of 90 % of prison incarcerations, 50 % of psychiatric admissions and 25 % of admissions to general medical hospitals, as well as a major factor in the incidence of suicides, murders, vehicular homicides, spouse battering, divorce and other kinds of social and occupational upheaval.

Insulin plays a lot of roles in the body, but excess insulin results in fat storage and has been fingered as a major factor in numerous chronic diseases.

An early - 90s study at Britain's Royal College of Surgeons concluded that the 52 - plus toxins produced by the bowel were the major factor in controlling human disease.

An early -»90s study at Britain's Royal College of Surgeons concluded that the 52 - plus toxins produced by the bowel were the major factor in controlling human disease.

Selenium deficiency is a major factor in thyroid disorders.

My job in functional medicine is to get to the root cause of health issues, and our love for all things sugary and sweet is a major factor in losing weight, balancing your mood, and gaining freedom from food addictions.

If wine is consumed properly, it is a major factor in the preservation of health and the cure of many illnesses.

And while a stellar, clean, plant - based diet is certainly a major factor in the New England Patriots quarterback's health regimen, it turns out there's a lot more to it than just what he's eating.

Coal emissions are a major factor in this public health crisis, the study authors said.

This is a major factor in how much testosterone can actually reach different tissues.

Most people are well - schooled in the knowledge that excess cholesterol is a major factor in creation of artery - clogging plaques.

Woods described how learning — conditioning — is a major factor in determining when an animal eats and what it eats.

A major factor in recommending genOway is the flexibility of their approach; each project is able to evolve such that the relationship between researcher and the genOway team is more like that of a true collaboration.»

These data implicate CMV as a major factor in driving oligoclonal expansions in old age.

A major factor in that acceleration of knowledge is the astronomer's primary research tool — the telescope.

As recently as five years ago, I can remember reading that East Antarctica would not be a major factor in sea level rise in this century.

In HD, the length of a person's CAG expansion is a major factor in the age of disease onset.

In line with this, tissue inflammatory mediators were strongly associated with the accumulation of fCD8 + cells, pointing to tissue inflammation as a major factor in this process.

«Because degradation of photoreceptors is believed to be a major factor in retinal diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa and Leber's congenital amaurosis, this finding, that horizontal cells are necessary for the normal survival of photoreceptor cells, is novel and significant,» says Mu.

And three - quarters of AAAS scientists say too little STEM education is a major factor in the public's limited knowledge about science — which an overwhelming majority of scientists see as a problem for science in general.

Precipitation, while not considered a key variable, can cause chick plumage to become damp or wet and is generally a major factor in egg and chick mortality and slow growth.

«A major factor in choosing this image as the winner is that it manages a seemly impossible task: to visualise an immensely long - term ecological process in a single static shot.

In her otherwise excellent article on the rise of bitter craft beers (25 December 2010, p 60), it was a shame that Lizzie Buchen didn't mention a major factor in understanding the increase: some people, myself included, don't taste bitterness.

In addition, the poor quality of the standard U.S. diet — including high levels of red and processed meat and low levels of fruits and vegetables — is a major factor in a number of preventable diseases.

«These have been the major factor in fragmenting the habitat.

In a letter to the British Medical Journal, New Zealand researchers say the trend supports their argument that fenoterol, a drug used to relieve acute attacks, was a major factor in the epidemic of asthma deaths in the country in the 1980s.

A major factor in the increase has been the growing numbers of livestock across the continent, which has allowed vampire bat populations to more than double in some places.

While environmental issues are often cited as a major factor in cities and towns in pursuing sustainability, a new study shows that economic concerns can be just as important to local governments in adopting concrete sustainability plans.

It is an extremely old sort of infection, and sadly it's one that is has not gone away, even though it's not much of a factor in our lives here in most of the industrialized world today, it's still a major, major factor in a lots of parts of developing world and, of course, it still hasn't even disappeared from places like here in the United States.

«Heredity a major factor in ADHD, binge eating and alcohol dependence.»

Aside from dietary issues, the CMAH gene also proves to be a major factor in whether or not a transplanted organ from an animal would be accepted by a human because of the gene.

Thus the very diversity of the economic web is almost certainly a major factor in creating the conditions for its own further expansion.

«Temporary oilfield workers are major factor in increased water use in North Dakota Bakken region.»

It tries to turn a major factor in the uncertainty in climate sensitivity estimates — the behavior of clouds — into a strength.

However, more than 10 billion gallons of ethanol will be transported and blended in 2009, and the earlier limitations in ethanol distribution and blending are no longer the major factor in the growth of the industry.

Excuses, excuses: Historically, women were often excluded from clinical studies because sex wasn't considered a major factor in health or illness.

That water stress has been a major factor in the turmoil tearing apart the Middle East, but Bar - Zeev believes that Israel's solutions can help its parched neighbors, too — and in the process, bring together old enemies in common cause.

«New findings about the deformed wing virus, a major factor in honey bee colony mortality.»

«The major factor in the jobs game is how much buzz there is around a job seeker,» she asserts.

A «funneling» effect has been a major factor in severe flooding on the River Clyde in recent years, according to a study by mathematicians at the University of Strathclyde.

«A large portion of the flowering plants, or angiosperms, depended on the insects for pollination, and insects were a major factor in creating the soil conditions on which the plants grew,» Wilson says.

That may seem like a forbidding intellectual curiosity, but large prime numbers have become a major factor in encryption technologies, especially those that govern financial transactions over the Internet.

Austin is sure that this lesson, which he learned just the day before the interview, was a major factor in winning the job.

Chronic inflammation is a major factor in a wide range of problems from arthritis to cardiovascular disease, and DHA (found in fish oil) is known to temper this problem.

Researchers said rivers can cut through bedrock and this process is thought to be the major factor in controlling mountain erosion, however, the long - term preservation of some mountains is at odds with some of the underlying assumptions regarding river erosion rates in current models of river - based landscape evolution.

Climate change is a major factor in biological invasions and its impact is likely increasing, Faillace said.

Previous studies comparing proteins in related species have shown very few mutations, so PTMs have not been considered to be a major factor in generating diversity.

It's a major factor in deciding what doctors should do next for them.

Another major factor in this study was the scope of Operation IceBridge's measurements across Greenland, which included flights that covered distances of tens of thousands of kilometers across the ice sheet.