Sentences with phrase «obesity researchers who»

Obesity researchers who included measures of binge eating in studies on obesity treatment concluded that BWL was effective and that there was no need for specialty therapies.12, 13 Limitations of these studies included small sample sizes, lack of longer - term follow - up, and self - report measures of binge eating rather than the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) semi-structured interview.14 Potential advantages of BWL are that it results in clinically significant short - term weight loss and can be implemented by a wider range of health professionals than a specialty psychological therapy.

And I bet obesity researchers who typically work with rodents would believe it, too, since peanut butter is often used in these studies as a high - reward, obesogenic comfort food that rats and mice will readily and consistently overeat.

Not exact matches

David Derbyshire, freelance environment and science writer talks to Julian Mercer, a leading UK obesity researcher, who heads a European team exploring how to create healthy foods that are more filling.

Overall, the researchers found students who received free or reduced - price lunches were more obese than students who did not take part in the USDA program, but the gap in obesity prevalence was much smaller in states with strict lunch standards.

To learn more about acetate's role, Shulman, who is also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a team of Yale researchers conducted a series of experiments in rodent models of obesity.

In a new study published in the Journal of Health Psychology, researchers from the University of Surrey have found dieters who eat «on the go» may increase their food intake later in the day which could lead to weight gain and obesity.

A team in Japan is testing it in people who are at high risk of diabetic kidney disease, and researchers hope to launch clinical trials in the United States for conditions such as obesity.

That's the question being raised by a team of researchers from the University of Adelaide, who say meat in the modern diet offers surplus energy, and is contributing to the prevalence of global obesity.

«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.

To further investigate the role of obesity in kidney cancer, South Korean researchers identified 1,543 patients who had undergone surgery to remove a kidney tumour between 1994 and 2008.

«This question has been around for at least 40 years,» says David Allison, an obesity researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), who was not part of the research.

Researchers in Australia gave activity monitors to 782 men and women, aged 36 - 80 years, who were taking part in the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study.

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.

In the same study, for those who were sleep deprived, «self - reported hunger and appetite ratings significantly increased by 24 percent and 23 percent, respectively,» noted the authors of the review paper, which was led by Julie Shlisky, a researcher at The New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center at Saint Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center.

«Our study shows that individuals with obesity who consume artificial sweeteners, particularly aspartame, may have worse glucose management than those who don't take sugar substitutes,» says Professor Jennifer Kuk, obesity researcher in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science.

«In addition to the researchers, surgeons and clinicians attending ObesityWeek, we encourage journalists to attend the session to learn more about how the media can participate in being part of the solution,» said Kyle, who also serves as Chairman of the Obesity Action Coalition National Board of Directors, a group representing individuals affected by the disease of oObesity Action Coalition National Board of Directors, a group representing individuals affected by the disease of obesityobesity.

A team of researchers studied adult volunteers with severe obesity (body mass index greater than 40) who participated in a comprehensive weight loss program.

Clearly, lupus erythematosus is a dominant factor over obesity as regards its influence on the activity of intestinal bacteria, explains researcher Moya, who is also a member of the Joint Research Unit of the University of Valencia and FISABIO.

In the meantime, the researchers say, middle - aged people who are fighting obesity should not abandon common practices of reducing calorie intake and boosting exercise, even if it takes a while to see results.

The researchers assert that findings from a variety of studies of juvenile obesity in humans show that children who are inactive in childhood are significantly more likely than those who engaged in exercise when young to continue this habit into adulthood.

The Joslin researchers bred new generations of the three mice models and then tested whether germ - free mice who were given microbes from these three strains of mice were prone to diabetes or obesity like the donors.

«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.

October 19, 2011 Moving poor women to lower - poverty neighborhoods improves their health Low - income women with children who move from high - poverty to lower - poverty neighborhoods experience notable long - term improvements in some aspects of their health, namely reductions in diabetes and extreme obesity, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and partner institutions.

After controlling for factors such as age, gender, smoking status, and physical activity, the researchers found that people who had normal BMIs but who also had «central obesity» — defined as a high waist - to - hip ratio — had a 22 % increased risk of death from all causes, compared to people with normal BMIs and healthier waist - to - hip ratios.

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.

The researchers didn't use body mass index (BMI) to measure obesity and overweight, since BMI, a simple ratio of height to weight, doesn't differentiate between muscle and fat — a crucial shortcoming when it comes to professional athletes who may be unusually muscular.

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).

He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.

There are many researchers and food writers who believe that the addition of significant amounts of refined carbohydrates is largely to blame for most «diseases of civilization» — such as diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.

Researchers, who conducted a study in 2015 showing the relationship between low levels of Vitamin D and obesity, suggested all overweight and obese people get their vitamin D levels tested.

In the wake of America's obesity epidemic and an effort to better understand the disease, researchers have tirelessly studied individuals who fall into the obese weight range.

Except for academic obesity specialists and researchers, who is foolish enough to think that 100 calories of brownies is equally fattening as 100 calories of kale salad?

The researchers, who based their study on the old chestnut that environmental conditions have a hold over the growing obesity epidemic by affecting physical activity and nutrition.