Sentences with phrase «study by the obesity»

A study by the Obesity Research Institute AT Colombia University College found that when comparing a low calorie diet to a meal replacement shake, the shake was able to:

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Some small studies have suggested that synbiotics could provide benefits to a range of other conditions influenced by the gut microbiome as well, including obesity, diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but larger - scale clinical trials focusing on each of those conditions are needed.

* Starts next phase of key obesity study next year (Adds comment by CEO, Victoza's market share, R&D spending in obesity)

I bet the Baptist group was indeed very big... A 2006 Purdue study found that the fundamental Christians are by far the heaviest of all religious groups led by the Baptists with a 30 % obesity rate compared with Jews at 1 %, Buddhists and Hindus at 0.7 %.

Although sales taxes on soft drinks in Ireland and France have both been associated with a reduction in consumption, the health effects have not been studied.15 16 No significant effect on obesity of US state sales taxes has been found, although the level of taxation there has probably been too low to affect health.13 17 The modelled estimates of the health effect of a 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in the United States vary, but such a tax has been predicted to reduce obesity by up to three percentage points.13 18 The effect of a sugar sweetened drink tax in the UK has not, until now, been formally estimated.

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

In fact, one of the primary studied benefits in this regard is the effect that cacao has on improving insulin resistance and downregulating inflammation caused by obesity (6).

Most people still cling to the old misguided «science» of saturated fats causing obesity and heat disease created by one flawed study and carried by the medical establishment and the media, enough to create a huge no or low fat industry that actually has contributed more to obesity and heart disease than any other dietary choice before.

In Australia only 1.8 % of the daily intake of kilojoules for adults comes from soft drinks.1 In fact, recent independent studies by the Australian Bureau of Statistics have shown the amount of sugar consumed through soft drinks has dropped while obesity continues to rise.

Australian Beverages Council CEO Geoff Parker today dismissed a study announced by the Cancer Council claiming that a sugar tax would boost the economy and reduce obesity rates.

21 June 2017 MEDIA RELEASE HEALTH LOBBY SHOULD GET SERIOUS ABOUT ADDRESSING OBESITY Australian Beverages Council CEO Geoff Parker today dismissed a study announced by the Cancer Council claiming that a sugar tax would boost the economy and reduce obesityOBESITY Australian Beverages Council CEO Geoff Parker today dismissed a study announced by the Cancer Council claiming that a sugar tax would boost the economy and reduce obesityobesity rates.

A study conducted by Mexican econometricians and researchers of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) on the impact of the tax on drinks with added sugars found that the measure failed in reducing calorie consumption and tackling overweight and obesity.

A 2006 study for Diabetes Australia by Access Economics considered the economic viability of imposing fat taxes on certain foods to reduce the incidence of obesity in general and reached the following conclusions:

Co-Authored by Brian & Bonnie Hershey The Chicago Tribune recently published the results of a study that sought to identify potential risk factors contributing to childhood obesity.

Some highlights from the study, which was led by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at the University of Connecticut:

If what we think may be the lifelong benefits for babies of being BLW'd (better eating habits, less risk of obesity etc.) are to be proven — or even disproven — by research, then studies need to define clearly and unambiguously what «true» BLW is.

That bizarre scenario was all I could think of when I received an email yesterday from the School Nutrition Association (SNA), relaying SNA president Julia Bauscher's refutation of a new, peer - reviewed study in Childhood Obesity finding that kids actually like the healthier school food mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA).

«The study, led by experts from the World Health Organisation and Unicef, said that child obesity, diabetes and infections could all be significantly reduced if more mothers could be persuaded to breastfeed.»

Louise: I'm aware of a study frequently cited by Poppendieck that showed that kids who ate school food did better nutritionally — i.e., were getting more nutrients / a more balanced diet --- but I don't believe that particular study looked at obesity.

In a fascinating new study published in the journal Obesity, researchers found that cutting sugar in children's diets for just ten days caused marked improvements in their metabolic health - despite the fact that the sugar was replaced by other... [Continue reading]

The CSPI study, «Kids» Meals: Obesity on the Menu,» arrived at its list of 13 restaurants by starting with the nation's 25 largest chains by revenue.

I didn't see any evidence (1) actually connecting the former to the latter, (2) that the differences at birth are lasting, (3) that the purported diseases associated with the microbiome in adulthood are the same ones associated with c - section (the author cites obesity, but we know that those observational studies re: c - section and obesity are deeply flawed by confounding)(4) that the «microbiotic» benefit of vaginal birth exists regardless of maternal health and matenral microbiome.

Per La Leche League, Dr. Nicholas Stettler (who headed up this study) «said that there is an easy way to prevent this obesity; simply follow the American Academy of Pediatrics» guideline — breastfeed the infant exclusively for six months, followed by the slow introduction of solids and continued breastfeeding to one year or beyond.»

There have now been many, many studies that link babies delivered by C - section with increased risk for obesity at any time in their life.

It was found that breastfeeding decreased the odds of type 2 diabetes and based on high - quality studies, decreased by 13 % the odds of overweight / obesity.

A 2013 study by Cheryl Watson at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston found that even picomolar concentrations (less than one part per trillion) of BPS can disrupt a cell's normal functioning, which could potentially lead to metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity, asthma, birth defects or even cancer.

A new Brazilian study has concluded that babies born by C section are not at risk of obesity and that their risk of piling on the pounds is no higher than that of babies delivered vaginally.

A study released in March by the University of Connecticut's Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity shows that students are eating more nutritious school foods and discarding less of their lunches under the healthier standards.

What was more surprising was another finding: that participation in the NSLP also reduced the rate of obesity by at least 17 percent among the children studied.

The 2005 study by Harder and colleagues (also mentioned in the comments section) looked at risk of obesity but didn't find a reduced risk associated with breastfeeding beyond 9 months: «From 1 month of breastfeeding onward, the risk of subsequent overweight continuously decreased up to a reduction of more than 30 percent, reaching a plateau at 9 months of breastfeeding.»

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But a recent study of 94 preschoolers by University of Missouri researchers found no relationship between infant feeding practices and childhood obesity.

That's the price tag for excess medical costs associated with the high rates of obesity in the Finger Lakes, according to a study by Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield.

A review of 7,000 studies by the World Cancer Research Fund found a third of cancers are attributable to diet and found at least six cancers for which obesity was a major risk factor.

A child's risk of obesity as they grow up can be influenced by modifications to their DNA prior to birth, a new University of Southampton study has shown.

Results from this study, and others related to obesity and pregnancy, will be presented today during an oral presentation by author Kellie Tamashiro, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University at 3:30 pm ET at The Obesity Society Annual Meeting at ObesityWeekSM 2014 in Boston,obesity and pregnancy, will be presented today during an oral presentation by author Kellie Tamashiro, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University at 3:30 pm ET at The Obesity Society Annual Meeting at ObesityWeekSM 2014 in Boston,Obesity Society Annual Meeting at ObesityWeekSM 2014 in Boston, Mass..

«Our finding that news reporting on obesity as a public health crisis brought on by bad personal choices can worsen anti-fat prejudice and increase people's willingness to charge obese men and women more for insurance» said David Frederick, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Chapman University and lead author on the study.

A study in this issue of JCI Insight demonstrates that mice lacking the proinflammatory signaling molecule TAK1 are protected from obesity and insulin resistance induced by a high fat diet.

The study, «Reducing Childhood Obesity Through U.S. Federal Policy: A Microsimulation Analysis,» was conducted by Brownson and partners from seven other institutions, and appears in the online Aug. 27 edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Soda consumers may be getting a much higher dose of the harmful sugar fructose than they have been led to believe, according to a new study by the Childhood Obesity Research Center (CORC) at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), part of Keck Medicine of USC.

«Obesity is a well - established risk factor for breast cancer in the general population and some studies suggest that maintaining a healthy lifestyle by exercising or avoiding obesity may decrease the likelihood of developing cancer in BRCA mutation carriers.Obesity is a well - established risk factor for breast cancer in the general population and some studies suggest that maintaining a healthy lifestyle by exercising or avoiding obesity may decrease the likelihood of developing cancer in BRCA mutation carriers.obesity may decrease the likelihood of developing cancer in BRCA mutation carriers.»

In an accompanying editorial, Anna Alisi, PhD, of the Liver Research Unit, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy, and Pietro Vajro, MD, of the Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, «Scuola Medica Salernitana,» Unit of Pediatrics, University of Salerno, Baronissi (Sa), Italy, commented, «This elegant observational study by Ayonrinde and colleagues is the first epidemiological evidence for the connection between maternal obesity, breastfeeding, and NAFLD.»

A new University of Iowa study in mice shows that drug - induced changes to the gut microbiome can cause obesity by reducing the resting metabolic rate — the calories burned while sleeping or resting.

Although obesity is considered a risk factor for heart disease, the study results suggest that focusing directly or exclusively on weight loss can be counterproductive by discouraging women from keeping health appointments, further reducing the chances that they will receive appropriate monitoring and counseling.

The chance of an obese person attaining normal body weight is 1 in 210 for men and 1 in 124 for women, increasing to 1 in 1,290 for men and 1 in 677 for women with severe obesity, according to a study of UK health records led by King's College London.

In other studies, obesity has been associated with a decreased risk of early death; however, follow - up studies suggest that this «obesity paradox» may be explained by unintentional weight loss in the few years preceding death, rather than a truly protective effect of obesity.

Obesity and a bigger waist size in older women are associated with a higher risk of death, major chronic disease and mobility disability before the age of 85, according to a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.

A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that heart failure patients who underwent bariatric surgery to treat morbid obesity had a significant reduction in the incidence of heart failure exacerbation — a dangerous, sudden worsening of symptoms — in the two years following surgery.

The study suggests that a less common version of the BDNF gene may predispose people to obesity by producing lower levels of BDNF protein, a regulator of appetite, in the brain.

The study — coordinated by University of Granada lecturer Ahmad Agil — showed that chronic administration of melatonin sensitizes the thermogenic effect of exposure to cold, heightens the thermogenic effect of exercise and, therefore, constitutes excellent therapy against obesity.