Sentences with phrase «obese children found»

Another study of overweight and obese children found a 25 % increase in resting metabolic rate after drinking cold water (6).

Obese children found it significantly more difficult to differentiate between the different taste sensations, and were particularly insensitive to salty, umami and bitter tastes.

Not exact matches

Conventional wisdom suggests that the less children exercise the more at risk they are at risk of obesity, but a new study finds that the most overweight and obese children are actually members of ethnic groups that are some of the most active.

If children are only allowed to run, jump, and climb when strictly supervised, they aren't going to find it very fun and are likely to do less of it which can have detrimental consequences on both their physical and mental health (think unimaginative obese kids).

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.

In 2015 researchers for the Journal of Physical Activity & Health found that active children who spent more than two hours watching TV each day were just as likely as inactive children were to be overweight or obese.

Lastly, Belfield and Kelly (2010) found in their study that breastfeeding was negatively associated with obesity, that is children who were breastfed were 4.7 — 8.8 % less likely to be obese than mothers who formula feed (p. 23).

The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth found that obese children are more likely to live in father - absent homes than are non-obese children.

They found that, compared with people of normal weight, the 300 severely obese children in their study were far more likely to have large, rare deletions.

The ban's proponents see it as a modest victory in efforts to curb childhood obesity, citing the 2007 California Health Interview Survey that found 15 percent of 12 - to -17-year-olds in the greater Bay Area to be overweight or obese (8 percent of children under age 12 were found to be overweight for their age).

One team has found in two children mutations in the gene for the metabolic hormone leptin, which in mice tells the body it's satiated; defects in this gene had not previously been found in obese people.

«Babies born big more likely to become obese as children, study finds: By identifying at - risk infants early, doctors could work with parents to prevent weight gain.»

Research in children and adolescents has found frequent family meals lead to better dietary outcomes and lower chances the children will become overweight or obese.

These findings are important given the high prevalence of overweight and obesity worldwide, and suggest that preventing women of reproductive age from becoming overweight or obese is important to the health of their children.

Bartoshuk also found a link between tonsillectomies, which were a common treatment for ear infections until the late 1980s, and obesity: six - to 11 - year - olds who had their tonsils removed were 40 percent more likely to be obese as children than other kids were.

A new study conducted by researchers at the Child Study Center at NYU Langone Medical Center found men diagnosed as children with attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were twice as likely to be obese in a 33 - year follow - up study compared to men who were not diagnosed with the condition.

In the past 30 years, obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents, with more than one - third of children and adolescents found to be overweight or obese in 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Findings from this study may be generalized only to overweight and obese Latino children, mostly of a lower socioeconomic status, according to the study.

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.

«If we are using BMI to find out which children are obese, it works if the BMI is high, but what about the children who have a normal BMI but do have excess fat?

Nearly 40 % of the families practiced two of the three, which lowered the odds that a child was obese nearly as much as all three, the researchers found.

The study, which included 8,550 4 - year - olds from around the United States, found that children who ate dinner with their families more than five times a week, slept for at least 10.5 hours a night, and watched less two hours or less of TV a day were 40 % less likely to be obese than children who did none of those things.

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.

Disappointing new research finds that starting in first grade — we're talking about 6 - year - olds — obese children are teased and bullied more often than kids of normal weight.

A CDC National Center for Health Statistics study from the May 2008 Journal of the American Medical Association found that obesity rates have leveled off in school - age children, but more than 16 % of kids are still obese — a number that has nearly tripled since 1980.

By Anne Harding MONDAY, May 3, 2010 (Health.com)-- Children in grades three through six who are obese are more likely to be bullied than their normal - weight peers, a new study has found.

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.

Children in grades three through six who are obese are more likely to be bullied than their normal - weight peers, a new study has found.

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.

Also can't we find one culture that gets a lot of their calories from fat but their children aren't obese?

April 26, 2016 • A new study finds 33 percent of American children between 2 and 19 are overweight, and 17 percent are obese.

Given that the UK has amongst the worst levels of obesity in Western Europe — the latest Health Survey for England data found that more than one in 10 children under - 10 in England are obese — those numbers are particularly encouraging.

It is thought that this could partially account for the modest fall in obesity levels found by the National Child Measurement Programme in 2013 (33.3 per cent classed as overweight or obese, down from 33.9 per cent the previous year).

Amid reports that overweight pupils underperform academically — data obtained from at least six studies by Scottish PHD student Anne Martin show that children who are obese at 11 achieve lower than average marks in maths, science and English at 16 — and findings that there is a higher incidence of serious childhood obesity in London than New York, figures like the London Health Commission's Lord Darzi are claiming that the issue is «at breaking point.»

The researchers found that obese children were absent significantly more than the normal weight children.

Among 3 - and 4 - year - old children enrolled in the Vermont WIC Program, we found greater TV viewing in those whose mothers had either depressive symptoms or obesity and the greatest TV viewing in children whose mothers were both depressed and obese.

We found associations between maternal obesity and having any chronic condition and all subcategories of conditions; this association was strongest for child obesity (42.1 %; 95 % CI, 38.2 % -46.1 %, vs 23.3 %; 95 % CI, 21.6 % -25.1 %, of children with mothers who were not obese)(AOR, 2.07; 95 % CI, 1.70 - 2.51).

A new study found that parents who allow their children to snack freely and with no control are encouraging them to be obese or overweight.

That report found that most children were of «normal weight» but around one in five were overweight (including obese).