Sentences with phrase «overweight children compared»

As a result, no meaningful associations between body weight and the perceived parent — child relationship were apparent except for slightly less perceived parental confidence in overweight children compared to normal weight children.

Not exact matches

The study, which was published in the American Journal of Public Health, discovered that children who consumed two cups full - fat milk everyday, compared to those who either drank two cups of low - fat or skim milk, were less than half as likely to be overweight.

Some babies simply are skinnier than others and it is far more of a concern from a health perspective if a child in overweight compared to skinny.

21 percent of severely obese children experienced physical victimization compared to only 5.4 percent of normal weight children and 8.7 percent of overweight kids.

Conversely, many researchers have observed a greater risk of overweight in children and adolescents who had not been breastfed compared with those who had16, 17 or who were breastfed a shorter rather than longer duration.18 — 25 On the basis of a review of 11 studies, Dewey26 concluded that «the evidence to date suggests that breastfeeding reduces the risk of child overweight to a moderate extent.»

The results also suggest that physically active overweight children have better fitness compared to their inactive peers.

The findings, which appear Feb. 26 in the journal Pediatrics, show 35.1 percent of children in the U.S. were overweight in 2016, a 4.7 - percent increase compared to 2014.

A woman being obese (BMI of 30.0 or higher) prior to getting pregnant increased the odds of her child being overweight at age 2 by more than two-fold compared to women who had a normal pre-pregnancy weight (BMI between 18.5 and 25), after adjusting for weight gain during pregnancy, gestational diabetes and breastfeeding.

• Overall, the likelihood of being overweight was higher in populations of South Asian children (36.9 per cent), compared to non-South Asian populations (23.0 per cent)

Children whose parents considered them to be «overweight» tended to gain more weight over the following decade compared with children whose parents thought they were a «normal» weight, according to analyses of data from two nationally representative studies published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Children whose parents considered them to be «overweight» tended to gain more weight over the following decade compared with children whose parents thought they were a «normal» weight, according to analyses of data from two nationally representative studies published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological children whose parents thought they were a «normal» weight, according to analyses of data from two nationally representative studies published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

«Basically, we compared parents of overweight children who recognized their children were overweight with parents of overweight children who did not recognize their children were overweight to see if knowing your child is overweight is associated with better behavior,» Neumark - Sztainer said.

More than 10 % of children between the ages of 2 - 5 years old are overweight; this has doubled in proportion when compared to 1980 reported studies.

Overweight five ‑ year - olds are four times as likely to become obese later in life, compared with children who are a healthy weight at this age.

The children whose parents received the intervention were less likely to be overweight (23 % compared to 41 % in the control group) and had fewer behavioural problems (2 % compared to 17 % in the control group).

Child weight status was also examined as «overweight» compared with «not overweight» based on an adiposity z score ≥ 85th percentile for age and sex.

Regarding the child, the importance of the intrauterine and early postnatal environments for metabolic programming and modifications of the epigenome is increasingly recognised, 12 — 14 particularly for metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes.15 Thus, GDM is related to macrosomia at birth (> 4 kg), to excess body fat and (central) obesity and to insulin secretion in infants and children, the obesity being in part mediated by maternal body mass index (BMI) or birth weight.16 — 23 Intrauterine exposure to GDM also doubles the risk for subsequent type 2 diabetes in offspring compared with offspring of mothers with a high genetic predisposition for type 2 diabetes, but with normal glucose tolerance during the index pregnancy.24 Maternal prepregnancy overweight and excessive gestational weight gain also predict high birth weight and adiposity during infancy.12 25 This is highly relevant, as up to 60 % — 70 % of women with GDM are overweight or obese before pregnancy.26 Finally, maternal lifestyle behaviour such as a high fat diet or lack of physical activity during pregnancy can influence offspring adiposity independent of maternal obesity.12 27

Children of authoritarian mothers (n = 298) had an increased risk of being overweight, compared with children of authoritative mothers (nChildren of authoritarian mothers (n = 298) had an increased risk of being overweight, compared with children of authoritative mothers (nchildren of authoritative mothers (n = 179).

South Australian data indicates that a significantly greater proportion of four year old Aboriginal children were overweight or obese in 2009 compared with their non-Aboriginal peers (27.9 % and 18.3 % respectively)[8].

47... (T) he Committee remains concerned at Indigenous children malnutrition and under - nutrition compared with over-nutrition, overweight and obesity at national level.

Results Compared to the MEND - eligible population, proportionally more children who started MEND were: obese rather than overweight excluding obese; girls; Asian; from families with a lone parent; living in less favourable socioeconomic circumstances; and living in urban rather than rural or suburban areas.