Sentences with phrase «one's lean counterparts»

While adjuvants improved the immune response to vaccinations in both lean and obese mice, the overall immune response was reduced in the obese animals compared to their lean counterparts.

Scientists are still hashing out the connection between bacteria and weight, but we do know that overweight people tend to have different gut microbial compositions than their lean counterparts.

Obese teenagers are only about 50 % as efficient at utilizing vitamin D as their lean counterparts.

A study published online in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood indicates that obese children and adolescents, as compared to their lean counterparts, have less sensitive taste buds.

This finding is consistent with the interpretation that obese individuals display greater compensation for a morning caloric deficit than lean counterparts.

But a large, lifetime study of Labrador retrievers has found that being even moderately overweight can reduce canine life expectancy by nearly two years compared to their leaner counterparts.

A large, lifetime study of Labrador retrievers found that a moderately overweight group of dogs lived nearly two years less than their leaner counterparts.

Pets with excess weight live an average of 2 to 2.5 years less than their lean counterparts.

The life expectancy and quality of life for dogs maintaining an overweight frame are often far shorter than their leaner counterparts.