Sentences with phrase «obesity researchers looking»

«We believe this research has implications for a wide range of people, from basic scientists who are interested in how reward processing changes across the lifespan, to obesity researchers looking to devise interventions to curb childhood obesity, to parents and pediatricians trying to raise healthier and happier kids,» says Silvers.

Not exact matches

Researchers from Harvard Medical School and elsewhere published a study in 2016 in the journal Obesity looking at whether adults living with constant exposure to traffic are more likely to be overweight.

Schrock: Well, other researchers — I think there is a group at the University of Minnesota — are looking into the possibility of treating cocaine addiction with other kinds of rewards, so that's definitely an area they are going to look into and they also think it has implications for obesity because if sugar is this addicting and if we can treat it like an addiction, we may be able to curb this obesity epidemic.

Researchers have been trying to track down what causes obesity, looking at potential triggers such as artificial sweeteners and the almost inescapable prevalence of food for sale.

Maternal diet during pregnancy and lactation may prime offspring for weight gain and obesity later in life, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers, who looked at rats whose mothers consumed a high - fat diet and found that the offspring's feeding controls and feelings of fullness did not function normally.

Researchers at the Childhood Obesity Research Center at USC are looking at how maternal food intake affects fructose levels in breast milk as well as how specific elements in breast milk can alter a baby's developing gut bacteria, which neutralizes toxic byproducts of digestion.

Professor Byrne said while researchers in the past had shown that as dieting continued weight loss became more difficult, this latest MATADOR (Minimising Adaptive Thermogenesis And Deactivating Obesity Rebound) study looked more closely at ways to lessen the famine response and improve weight loss success.

In this study obesity overcame that survival disadvantage for men, leading researchers to now look at the possible impact of sex hormones in this effect.

Because maternal obesity has been linked with congenital malformations in offspring, researchers led by Ian Macumber, MD (Seattle Children's Hospital) looked to see if it might have an impact on CAKUT.

«It's a timely reminder that when contemplating the scene of a crime, it is wise to look beyond those potential culprits standing nearest to the body, some of whom may well be innocent bystanders, and to look for «motive» amongst those who may be standing a little distance away,» Mark McCarthy of the University of Oxford, a researcher who has worked on the connection between obesity and the FTO gene, told National Geographic's Not Exactly Rocket Science.

In the most recent study, presented last week at an annual conference of obesity experts, researchers gave 387 obese volunteers the balloon treatment or sugar - filled capsules, which were complete with catheters and designed to look like the real thing.

The researchers — who examined data on more than 8,000 children up to age 14 — did find that breast - feeding was linked to a reduced risk of obesity and hyperactivity and measures of higher intelligence, but that breast advantage evaporated once they looked at families where one child was breast - fed and one wasn't (my exact situation — my older son got the breast while the younger one had to settle for formula because I had low supply).

In recent studies, researchers at Montefiore Medical Center looked at breast cancer patient outcomesand found that, despite state of the art treatment, excess weight or obesity increased breast cancer recurrence by 30 % -50 %!

Researchers looked at the correlation between sugar availability and diabetes in 175 countries during the last ten years and controlled for such factors as obesity, calories consumed, diet, economic development, activity level, urbanization, tobacco and alcohol use, and aging.

Since the inception of the low - fat diet craze in the 1980's, obesity, diabetes and heart disease statistics have shown that the low - fat diet trend has not been entirely helpful, leading researchers to look more closely at dietary fats.

For example, researchers are looking for specific genes for schizophrenia in Finland, HIV in Gabon, obesity in Micronesia and alcoholism in Iceland.