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In 2008, researchers in Quebec reviewed a stack of studies to find what they called «unsuspected determinants of obesity.»

«There is almost certainly a level of physical activity... that would be effective in reducing or preventing obesity,» the researchers write.

That's one reason researchers think the microbiome might be a crucial part of not only obesity and diabetes, but also some of society's most pervasive mental health problems — the very illnesses that, too often, leave doctors stuck and patients frustrated.

The researchers were surprised with the findings: «This was a major surprise for us — that soybean oil is causing more obesity and diabetes than fructose — especially when you see headlines everyday about the potential role of sugar consumption in the current obesity epidemic.

Researchers and thought leaders weigh in on cutting - edge strategies that may help drive down rates of obesity

The researchers also examined the waist to height ratio of the teenagers in the study to evaluate obesity and found no link between the type of dairy eaten and obesity.

18 July 2017 MEDIA RELEASE LOW - kJ SWEETENERS DEEMED SAFE BY ALL LEADING GLOBAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES The CEO of the Australian Beverages Council, Geoff Parker, today dismissed claims by researchers from the University of Manitoba that low - kilojoule (low - kJ) sweeteners increased the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

However, the interests of the food industry (increased sales of their products) are very different from those of most researchers (the honest pursuit of knowledge), and recent randomized trials support a positive association between SSB consumption and overweight / obesity.

In this systematic review, the researchers investigate whether the disclosure of potential financial conflicts of interest (for example, research funding by a beverage company) has influenced the results of systematic reviews undertaken to examine the association between the consumption of highly lucrative sugar - sweetened beverages (SSBs) and weight gain or obesity.

A study conducted by Mexican econometricians and researchers of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) on the impact of the tax on drinks with added sugars found that the measure failed in reducing calorie consumption and tackling overweight and obesity.

Prenatal exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), a common chemical used in plastic water bottles and canned food, is associated with measures of obesity in children at age 7, according to researchers from the Columbia Center for Children's...

Dr. Ruth Lawrence, a breastfeeding researcher from the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, said she still believes that starting breastfeeding in the first place can help ward off obesity.

Researchers across the UT System are working hard to gain a clearer picture of what works best to encourage and support children and adults in overcoming obesity.

In fact, some researchers believe sleep deprivation to be a factor in the rising rates of obesity.

Rapid weight gain in an infant's first six months of life is a risk factor for child - and adulthood obesity, according to researchers.

The researchers carefully controlled for several known risk factors for stillbirth: obesity, smoking, low socioeconomic status, maternal age, and number of prior children.

The researchers concluded that encouraging kids to sleep longer, with more regular schedules, could reduce their risk of obesity and improve their health.

What can be done: Researchers believe that the uptick in the U.S. maternal mortality rate is due mainly to three factors: a decline in overall health, including increased rates of obesity and cardiovascular disease, inadequate prenatal care, and inadequate postpartum care.

Researchers on this project included lead author Ian M. Paul, Jennifer S. Savage and Michele E. Marini, Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Penn State College of Health and Human Development and others.

In most recent news, researchers have found that childhood obesity can quadruple the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

But a recent study of 94 preschoolers by University of Missouri researchers found no relationship between infant feeding practices and childhood obesity.

Involvement in sports, for example, was tied to a lower risk of obesity in boys but not girls and drinking milk was linked to lowered risk among girls but not boys, according to researchers from the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor.

The researchers computed a genetic risk score for each participant based on 76 common variants known to be associated with elevated risk of obesity, and analyzed this score in the context of accelerometer data and participants» BMIs.

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 Nature, a Yale - led team of researchers has identified how an altered gut microbiota causes obesity.

Poor diet and a lack of physical activity are major contributors to the world's obesity epidemic, but researchers have also identified common environmental pollutants that could play a role.

With regard to the prevention of obesity, the overall nutritional behavior beyond the consumption of fruit and vegetables should be taken into account, according to the researchers.

The researchers had previously shown that blocking FSH could halt bone loss, raising the intriguing prospect of a medical twofer: one drug to combat obesity and osteoporosis.

Considering the urgency of addressing the current diabetes and obesity epidemics, their article is also a call to action for researchers and health systems to develop successful interventions to increase physical activity among women of reproductive age.»

Researchers at Chapman University, UCLA, and Stanford have just published work on how news media coverage shapes perceptions of obesity.

The researchers wanted to see if improving the body clock would reduce one of the hallmarks of metabolic syndrome — 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.

In a bit of good news — bad news the researchers claim that whereas the U.S. may not reach the 42 percent obesity rate for another 40 years, their projection is a best - case scenario — it could be higher.

Experiments with a compound called TNP [N2 -(m - Trifluorobenzyl), N6 -(p - nitrobenzyl) purine], which researchers often use to study obesity and diabetes, show that in mice the therapy can promote the formation of new bone.

A tax on sugar - sweetened beverages such as sodas, energy drinks, sweet teas, and sports drinks would reduce obesity in adolescents more than other policies, such as exercise or an advertising ban, and would also generate significant revenue for additional obesity prevention activities, say researchers writing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Finally, the researchers observed this same mechanism in men where CCL7 secretion is also higher in case of 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.

The researchers identified notable spikes between 2014 and 2016 in obesity for preschool boys, which rose from 8.5 percent to 14.2 percent, and girls aged 16 to 19, whose rates of obesity jumped from 35.6 percent to 47.9 percent.

An international team of researchers has identified eight additional types of cancer linked to excess weight and obesity: stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, ovary, meningioma (a type of brain tumor), thyroid cancer and the blood cancer multiple myeloma.

Researchers are now finding that more than the lungs are at risk, as dirty air may in fact be an accomplice to some of the greatest threats to public health, including diabetes, obesity and even dementia.

Using the body mass index, a ratio of weight to height, of more than 30 million 5 - to 19 - year - olds, researchers tracked trends from 1975 to 2016 in five weight categories: moderate to severe underweight, mild underweight, healthy weight, overweight and obesity.

A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show how obesity increases risk of 13 different cancers in young adults.

Preliminary work by other groups, similarly made up of both biomedical researchers and microbial ecologists, suggests that imbalances in the microbiome might also be linked to allergies, diabetes, and obesity.

The researchers fed mice samples of this bacterium from the volunteer's gut to determine whether the pathogen was a cause or a result of his obesity.

Three decades of rising childhood obesity continued their upward trend in 2016 according to a new analysis from Duke Health researchers.

The researchers then tested the influence of obesity on this mechanism.

«The need to educate customers about the nutritional content of restaurant foods is acute because consumers increasingly eat away from home, restaurants serve large portions of energy - dense and high - sodium foods, and obesity and the prevalence of other diet - related diseases are high,» according to lead researcher Amy Auchincloss, PhD, MPH, of the Drexel University School of Public Health.

With rising rates of inactivity and obesity, the researchers wanted to know if there was a relationship between clusters of risk factors for cognitive decline, and how lifestyle factors might help prevent or delay it.

«Palatable functional and medical foods can be made with GMP, and such foods may be beneficial in the management of phenylketonuria, obesity and inflammatory bowel disease,» the researchers wrote.