Sentences with phrase «rising diabetes epidemic»

Food, ingredient and drinks manufacturers are improving the content of food and beverages in response to the rising diabetes epidemic.

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Excessive sugar consumption has been linked to America's obesity epidemic and the vigorous rise of type 2 diabetes in the last several decades.

A new study by USC and University of Oxford researchers indicates that large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) found in national food supplies across the world may be one explanation for the rising global epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and resulting higher health care costs.

The Whole Child health report brings together a comprehensive picture of the effects to mind, body and spirit of the societal shift toward growing up indoors, including not only epidemic childhood obesity but also precipitously rising rates of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), childhood diabetes, and pediatric depression.

Segal says that the global rise in sweetener consumption — along with other major shifts in human nutrition — coincided with the dramatic increase in obesity and diabetes epidemics around the world.

When the prevalence of diabetes in New York City nearly tripled in a decade, rising from 3.7 percent in 1994 to 9.2 percent in 2004, the city declared it an epidemic.

«Obesity and Type 2 diabetes in children is on the rise and there is the argument that it is related to lifestyle and availability of high calorie foods and reduced physical activity, but our study has found that maternal antidepressant use may also be a contributing factor to the obesity and diabetes epidemic,» said the study's senior investigator Alison Holloway, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at McMaster University.

While obesity rates have risen to about 30 percent of the U.S. population — carrying with it an epidemic of diabetes — food stamp enrollment has also exploded.

This is a major step in reducing the rising epidemic of type 2 diabetes, which is projected to affect more than 30 percent of all Americans.

Diabetes rates are rising, in fact it is now considered an «epidemic» in the medical community.

The rising epidemic of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents clearly proves this concept false.

Only 1 in 1000 American children eats a healthy diet, a likely cause of the childhood obesity epidemic and the dramatic rise in childhood diabetes.

As the Baby Boomer generation is now turning 65 and incidences of diabetes are significantly on the rise in every age group across America, we're facing an epidemic, with nearly one third of the population diabetic or prediabetic.

Yet given rising obesity rates, the diabetes epidemic, and the multitude of health problems that accompany food addiction, we should probably start paying more attention.

Parents and non-parents alike have reason to be worried about children's health, due to the youth obesity epidemic, the alarming rise of type 2 diabetes and the growing number of children (estimated at close to 6 million) labeled as having ADD or ADHD and placed on prescription drugs.

The Journal of American Medical Association has shown that heart disease kills 800,000 people per year and cancer kills 700,000, while diabetes and childhood obesity are rising to epidemic proportions.

During this period, I witnessed firsthand (with the 18,000 dogs and cats under my company's care) the silent epidemic of pet obesity and the rapid rise of diabetes in dogs, and particularly in cats.

Much like diabetes is reaching near - epidemic proportions, those who are overweight or obese are also on the rise.