Sentences with phrase «obese children led»

This study has been published in the Neuroimage journal and is part of the ActiveBrains project, which is a randomized clinical trial involving more than 100 overweight / obese children led by Francisco B. Ortega.

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We know, for example, that inactivity is leading to an epidemic of obese children and disease complications.

Breastfed babies are less likely to develop diarrhoea, vomiting and chest infections, leading to fewer hospital visits; and they are less likely to become obese both as children and in later life.

I also heard that people get most of their calories from too much juice drinking and that it can lead to an obese child if you let them have too much juice.

When a child becomes obese at an early age, it can lead to a lifetime of weight problems.

Over one - third of children in this country are overweight or obese, which will lead to health problems with long - term consequences: shorter life expectancies, decreased productivity, and a massive strain on our already troubled health care system.

Young children's weight predicts their future health, says epidemiologist Ashleigh May, the lead author of the CDC report: «If they're obese at this age, they're five times as likely to become obese as adults.»

In addition to hyperactivity and inattention, heavily sugared beverages also impact childhood obesity, notes Ickovics, and sugar - sweetened beverages are a leading cause of added calories in the diets of obese children.

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.

They may lead to taste impairment, putting children at an increased risk of becoming obese.

Obese women tend to give birth to larger babies with more body fat, and these children are more likely to develop metabolic syndrome — the cluster of conditions including obesity and high blood sugar that can lead to diabetes and heart disease.

Those parallels — and the fact that osteocalcin can't currently be given directly — led Pollock to pursue his ongoing clinical trial in obese children with higher - fasting glucose levels.

Pollock, who is also leading a novel study of the cardiovascular impact of a vitamin K supplement on obese children already showing signs of diabetes risk, has early evidence that the vitamin levels are lower in obese and overweight children.

According to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), a lack of exercise is one of the contributing factors that has led more than 25 per cent of Canadian children to become overweight or obese.

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Annabel Karmel MBE, leading children's food expert and well - regarded parenting author, said: «With almost 20 per cent of children deemed obese by the time they leave primary school at age 11, healthy eating must become commonplace in the daily school routine.

• 31 % of children age 2 - 15 are overweight or obese, leading to long - term heart disease and other health implications

Linda Bailey, Consultant Lead for the Child Measurement Programme said: «The number of children that are obese at the age of four to five years old has been going in the wrong direction over the past two years.

Sugary beverages are the leading cause of added calories in children's diets, and that's a serious problem in a country where 1 out of 3 school - age children is already overweight or obese.

A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).