Sentences with phrase «on obesity research»

Recent advances on obesity research.

Not exact matches

And most research on diet and health or PTSD comes from correlational studies, as no ethics committee will let you induce obesity or traumetize someone for an experiment.

As a scientist with a research background on obesity....

Ipsos research commissioned by the Australian Beverages Council shows around two - thirds of Australians agree that a tax on soft drinks would be ineffective in reducing obesity and the majority of those surveyed were against the introduction of such a tax.

Media Statement 10 November 2014 Australians don't support another tax on the supermarket trolley latest research shows Ipsos research commissioned by the Australian Beverages Council shows around two - thirds of Australians agree that a tax on soft drinks would be ineffective in reducing obesity and the majority of those surveyed were against the introduction of such a tax.

«Research has shown, most Australian parents agree that programs promoting healthy diet and lifestyle are the most effective way to tackle obesity, followed by nutrition information on packs and vending machines4.

9 April 2014 Media Statement Soft drink tax not the answer for WA The Australian Beverages Council has today slammed Live Lighter's research that a soft drink tax is supported by the public in WA, offering evidence that a tax on beverages has been proven as an ineffective measure to combat obesity, time and time -LSB-...]

In fact, research from the McKinsey Global Institute found that a 10 per cent tax on high - sugar products would be one of the least effective measures in combatting obesity, ranking 14th out of 17 intervention methods1.

The Australian Beverages Council has today slammed Live Lighter's research that a soft drink tax is supported by the public in WA, offering evidence that a tax on beverages has been proven as an ineffective measure to combat obesity, time and time again.

Research from the McKinsey Global Institute found that a 10 per cent tax on high - sugar products would be one of the least effective measures in combatting obesity, ranking 14th of 17 intervention methods, with portion control having the highest estimated impact with the most cost effective measures.

His research interests are in health policy, organizational change, health behavior during developmental transitions, influence of sports participation on health, social determinants of health, program evaluation, prevention of alcohol attributable harm, physical activity promotion, obesity prevention, and motor vehicle safety.

When infants and young children are not breastfed or when breastfeeding is suboptimal, children risk not only increased rates of infectious diseases such as gastric and respiratory infections, but increasingly research is documenting the impact of not breastfeeding on the prevalence of life long chronic diseases such as cancers, diabetes, obesity and cardio vascular disease.

Now a concerned parent can find in one source all of the prevailing scientific research arguing against the use of food as a reward, a chart showing every leading medical organization which has condemned the practice, generally useful statistics on childhood obesity and even some colorful quotes from experts.

More research on child nutrition has come down the pipe, and with high obesity rates and cardiovascular illness, we really can not get enough.

Here at Parenting Squad, we have been on board with childhood obesity prevention tips and research information for families.

Find helpful programs and the latest facts, statistics, research, and reports on the topics of physical activity, nutrition, and obesity in the United States.

It summarizes the research on SNAP's role in dietary quality, obesity, and other health outcomes, such as food insecurity.

To better understand the relationship between youth sport participation and obesity prevention, we systematically reviewed the existing research on the association between sport participation and body weight, plus two major determinants of obesity, physical activity, and dietary intake.

I came across your blog while doing research for our bi-weekly newsletter on childhood obesity called MDPA Minute.

Her research focuses on family and community contributions to child obesity and the development of sustainable obesity prevention programs.

For a summary of existing research, view Elsie's abstracts on childhood obesity risk factors and interventions in the first 1,000 days.

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.

The research is the largest study to date on breast - feeding and its effect on adult obesity.

Current research projects focus on the process and outcomes of food system localisation in a globalising environment, the sustainability implications of a large scale transition to agriculturally derived bio-fuels, the effects of school and community context on childhood obesity, and the micro-politics of animal welfare in alternative livestock systems.

Low - carbohydrate diets or low carb diets are nutritional programs that advocate restricted carbohydrate consumption, based on research that ties carbohydrate consumption with increased blood insulin levels, and overexposure to insulin with metabolic syndrome (the most recognized symptom of which is obesity).

Research on the causes of obesity, though valuable, will not solve this public health crisis; what may, is behavioral science, which tells us how to change our habits and our «food environment.»

Four levels of overweight and obesity used in research on how news media influences perceptions on obesity.

On the research front, meanwhile, investigators are making some progress in grasping obesity's causes.

Commissioned by the Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) the report, entitled «A «Watershed» Moment: Why it's Prime Time to Protect Children from Junk Food Adverts», is based on data collected and analysed by Drs Emma Boyland and Rosa Whalen from the University's Appetite and Obesity research group.

A tax on sugary drinks that depends on the number of calories or amount of sugar per liter could help fight obesity, suggests new research published in Social Science & Medicine.

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.

The U.S. attorney's office in Indianapolis had alleged that Guoqing Cao and Shuyu Li, both naturalized U.S. citizens and senior biologists at Eli Lilly, passed research on tailored therapies for cancer and drugs to treat diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic disorders to Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine, a company in Lianyungang, China.

Previous criteria obscured the problem and the data Data are scarce on the extent to which anorexia might affect teens who have a normal, overweight or obese body mass index (BMI) because most research into eating disorders and obesity lately has focused on binge eating disorder, the newest eating disorder addition in the DSM - 5.

It's well known that dairy products contain calcium and minerals good for bones, but new research has shown that dairy consumption may also have beneficial effects on metabolic health and can reduce risk of metabolic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Previous research has largely focused on dietary components and which diet would be best to lower the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes, but so far there is no clear evidence from epidemiological or clinical trial data that a specific diet is optimal for long - term weight - loss or lowering the risk of diabetes.

«Researchers widely acknowledge that receiving inadequate sleep is a serious problem and can potentially contribute to a variety of health complications, such as a weakened immune system or an increased risk for obesity and diabetes,» says Dr. Laura Scheinfeldt, lead author on the paper and a research scientist at Coriell.

There is growing evidence that obesity is linked to dementia, but the research indicates that risk may be heightened or lowered, depending on age.

Professor Martin Gulliford, senior author from the Division of Health and Social Care Research at King's College London, said: «Current strategies to tackle obesity, which mainly focus on cutting calories and boosting physical activity, are failing to help the majority of obese patients to shed weight and maintain that weight loss.

10:19 p.m. on a Monday evening in October, I sat in a booth at Chevys Fresh Mex in Clifton, New Jersey, reviewing the latest research into the neurobiology of hunger and obesity.

However, James notes, a review of data by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer last February concluded that between a quarter and third of all colon, breast, endometrial, kidney, and esophageal cancers globally may trace to excess weight, especially obesity.

The statement is based on a review of existing scientific research published in peer - reviewed medical journals that documents a strong association between adverse experiences in childhood and teen years and a greater likelihood of developing risk factors such as obesity, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes earlier than those not experiencing adverse experiences.

Based on the research, it seemed that doctors might soon be able to treat obesity the way they treat diabetes, with a simple metabolic drug.

Although Ribeiro's research into kidney fat is too new to have borne results, his earlier work on prostate cancer could hold some clues about the kidney - cancer obesity paradox.

«This research clearly demonstrates the impact of smoking and obesity on cancer risk.

On the other side of the world, Furberg and kidney specialist Ari Hakimi, also at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, came across the obesity paradox in their research.

Research on microbiome links to obesity, for instance, suggests that a new «skinny» microbiome has to be accompanied by a switch to a diet lower in fat and calories, or else the new microbes will just be outcompeted.

Further, there has been little research on the long - term effects of gestational weight gain on childhood obesity risk in vulnerable populations.

Hired as a lab director in 2006 at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw, Dobrzyn has won several prestigious grants in the past year, and her five - person lab is publishing their research on obesity - related diabetes regularly.

New research provides the first glimpse of weight - gain guidance for pregnant women with various classes of obesity based on body mass index (BMI), and suggests that they not gain any weight until mid-pregnancy or later.

«The link between increases in sugar intake, particularly fructose, and the rising obesity epidemic has been debated for many years with no clear conclusions,» said Catarina Rendeiro, a postdoctoral research affiliate at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and lead author on the study.