Sentences with phrase «obese adults found»

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The science doesn't lie: A 2011 Harvard study found that adults with the highest concentration of BPA in their urine had significantly larger waists and odds of being obese than those in the lowest quartile.

Meanwhile, in Haywood County, 61 % of the adults were overweight or obese in 2013 and in 2011 (I could find no more recent data), 39 % of its children were overweight or obese.

It found that the number of obese Americans will not plateau until it reaches 42 percent of adults (the rate has been about 34 percent for the past five years).

Racial disparities in obesity rates among the third of U.S. adults considered obese are often blamed on socioeconomic status because of its influence on diet and physical activity, but new findings from the University of Alabama at Birmingham published in Obesity suggest otherwise — particularly for women.

Nutrition scientists at the University of Illinois analyzed the findings of eight randomized controlled trials to investigate the impact of diets that provided similar amounts of calories, but high amounts of either saturated or unsaturated fats, on the blood lipid levels and body composition of overweight and obese adults.

Adults who don't flip on the TV during dinner and those who eat home - cooked meals are less likely to be obese, a new study has found.

For the first time, the findings also indicate that adults who drop a BMI category — from obese to overweight, or from overweight to normal — at any time during adult life, even if they regain weight, can reduce these cardiovascular manifestations.

They found that a change in body mass index from overweight to obese (equivalent to an average size adult woman increasing in weight from 150 to 180 pounds) was associated with an increase of about 40 % in the risk of MS.

Before you know it, you may eventually find yourself like 34 % of U.S. adults — obese.

Senior author Professor Jane Wardle, director of the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Centre at UCL, says: «A recent UK survey found that 60 % of overweight and obese adults in the UK are trying to lose weight.

Rat studies at the University of Auckland in New Zealand bolstered the findings: mothers who were undernourished during pregnancy gave rise to obese adults.

The findings, he says, could also help explain the obesity epidemic in countries like China, where the children of poorly nourished mothers are now obese, middle - aged adults.

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.

In a recent study in the International Journal of Obesity, researchers found that obese adults who ate three servings of fat - free yogurt a day as part of a reduced - calorie diet lost 22 % more weight and 61 % more body fat than those who just cut calories.

A study published in the Journal of Medicinal Food found that obese adults who ate half a grapefruit before each of their three main meals of the day lost about 1.4 kg more than those who didn't during a 12 - week period.

«We found that adults consuming calories during regular meals — at similar times from one day to [the] next — were less obese than people who have irregular meals, despite consuming more calories overall,» says Gerda Pot, PhD, a visiting lecturer in the Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences Division at King's College London who worked on both papers.

For example, a brand new UK study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition looked at obese adults who ate the a.m. meal and those who skipped it, and found no differences between the two groups in weight change, or most health outcomes.

A study last year found that obese children and teens have as much plaque in their arteries as a 45 - year - old adult, setting them up for heart disease and other serious health conditions much earlier than their parents.

And in perhaps one of the most eye - opening studies, researchers found that obese children have as much plaque in their neck arteries as middle - aged adults.

In a large analysis of the link between sleep and fat loss, researchers looked at 36 studies, including 635,000 people around the world, and found that adults who didn't get enough sleep were 50 percent more likely to be obese, and children who didn't get enough sleep were 90 percent more likely to be obese, compared with those who got more sleep.

«Although an association between exercise - induced irisin and body composition change was found in obese adults, we could not evaluate their causal relationship in this study.

In an analysis involving 347 healthy adults, researchers from the Mayo Clinic found that study participants who skipped breakfast were more likely to be obese than those who ate it frequently, defined as five to seven times a week.

For millions of adults in the United States who are obese or overweight, trying to find a diet that provides lasting results in a healthy way can be difficult.

Researchers at a university in Mexico found that regular banana consumption in obese adults was linked to more weight loss than those who didn't consume bananas.

For example, this study found that intermittent fasting was an effective strategy for weight loss in obese adults and concluded that «subjects quickly adapt» to an intermittent fasting routine.

Additionally, Dr. Page and team found that obese young adults reported more hunger and a greater desire to eat when they viewed pictures of high - calorie foods such as chocolate cake (Luo et al., Obesity 2013 [PubMed]-RRB-.

The findings also claimed that obesity becomes less dangerous with age, and obese adults with a grade 1 obesity BMI of 30 to 34.9 did not have a greater mortality risk than someone of a healthy weight.

To find these numbers, Dr. Lee and his colleagues developed a computer model to represent the U.S. adult population, and estimated lifetime health effects for people who were obese, overweight, or healthy weight at ages 20 through 80.

The fifth annual veterinary survey found 53 percent of adult dogs and 55 percent of cats to be classified as overweight or obese by their veterinarian.

The study of nearly 4,400 U.S. adults treated for colon cancer conducted by researchers at the Mayo Clinic found that obese patients were one - quarter to one - third more likely to die over the next eight years than their normal - weight counterparts.