Sentences with phrase «rampant obesity»

When the staff health - care costs at Wesley Willows, a non-profit retirement community in Rockford, Ill., started getting out of hand due to rampant obesity, the company decided it had to convince its employees to lose weight.

In obesity, the problem of rampant obesity means that it is very obviously not the fault of the people.

There is rampant obesity in adults and children.

As a result, the identification of the gene could also lead to the creation of drugs to suppress appetite and fight America's rampant obesity.

Could added incentives and other changes to the federal food stamp program trim rampant obesity rates among low - income groups?

We got ourselves into this mess of poor nutritional habits, rampant obesity and declining health over the past five decades.

You also suggest that it's a lack of exercise over their exposure to highly processed, sugary foods like Tony the Tiger and McDonalds, that has led to such rampant obesity.

But as consumers have become more health - conscious, and rampant obesity set off red flags about the health effects of sugar, many food and agribusiness companies have begun searching for new ingredients.

Our culture's rampant obesity epidemic among men can be clearly traced to this departure from God's perfect design.

Not exact matches

(I'm thinking of a recent NPR report on Mississippi where obesity is rampant but it's not viewed as a real problem by many for cultural reasons.)

From upper respiratory infections and Type II diabetes to asthma, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and childhood obesity — these issues are rampant in our communities.

Rampant diabetes, extreme obesity, shorter lifespans for our children?

he does seem tall for his age, and hes a rail but, like i said, the stupidity of comparing a child to other children, especially, like you said, in a time where childhood obesity is rampant, is just nonsense.

Nutrition aside (these particular animal crackers do contain some whole grain), this seems like a terrible message to be sending our students about sound food choices, particularly in an age of rampant childhood obesity.

It's taken well over a decade to upgrade the nutritional content of NSLP meals in this era of rampant childhood obesity thanks to pushback from the food industry and other stakeholders.

Given the rampant child obesity rates, however, it's a reasonable question to ask.

My take - away message from this study is that any mother who supplements her newborn (whether with expressed milk, donor milk, or formula) should learn the appropriate amount to feed so she can prevent the kind of rampant oversupplementation that undermines breastfeeding and increases later risk of obesity.

A hormonal imbalance could lead to overeating; indeed, obesity runs rampant in certain human families that have a genetic deficiency in leptin.

Consider for one minute the possibility that excess carbohydrates, not excess fat (which the USDA only recommends 65 grams of a day) cause problems like obesity, diabetes and heart disease, and even if Americans are only following half of the advice set forth by the USDA, and its easy to see why these diseases are rampant.

Americans are now as unhealthy as they've ever been with obesity running rampant and all of the contingent health issues including widespread diabetes.

Diabetes, obesity, heart disease and countless other diseases are rampant in our modern world.

The MPs said: «In an age of rampant child obesity there has been a shock increase in the number of children starting their first and final years of school who are underweight.»

Obesity in cats is running rampant.

Obesity hasn't just gone to the dogs, Doc, it's rampant among humans in the U.S., too.

«Once again, our data shows that obesity is rampant and we are certainly setting up more and more dogs and cats for joint problems during their lives.

Feline obesity runs rampant, and is blamed mainly on diet.

Ailments like diabetes, cardiovascular anomalies, obesity, respiratory problems, etc. which were more commonly found in the middle to older ages are now rampant among the youth of India.