Sentences with phrase «obesity research under»
After 10 years with the Mid-Atlantic NORC and the cultivation of a broad range of experience in nutrition and obesity research under the leadership of Alan Shuldiner, M.D., Sara is delighted to rejoin her colleagues at Research Diets.
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With the prevalence of childhood obesity in this country and the abundance of research that corroborates that childhood obesity is a strong risk factor for adult obesity, children's diets and nutrition are under scrutiny.
Brownson, who also is director of the university's Prevention Research Center, and his co-authors set out to determine the effectiveness of three federal policies aimed at reducing childhood obesity: afterschool physical activity programs, a one - tenth - cent per ounce sugar - sweetened beverage excise tax, and a ban on fast food television advertising to children under 12.
Using cells from mice and human livers, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute researchers demonstrated for the first time how under specific conditions, such as obesity, liver CD8 + T cells, white blood cells which play an important role in the control of viral infections, become highly activated and inflammatory, reprogramming themselves into disease - driving cells.
Brownson, who also is director of the university's Prevention Research Center, and his co-authors set out to determine the effectiveness of three federal policies aimed at reducing childhood obesity: afterschool physical activity programs, a one cent per ounce sugar - sweetened beverage excise tax, and a ban on fast food television advertising to children under 12.
Under the alliance, deCODE and Merck will combine their cutting - edge research efforts in the genetics of obesity to identify, validate and prioritize a series of drug targets to take into development.
A study undertaken by researchers from Birzeit University in Palestine, published in the peer - reviewed Obesity Research and Clinical Practice Journal, put carbonation under the microscope for a period of six months.