Sentences with phrase «than obesity because»

Have there been any documented cases of children with ill effects due to chemically treated processed foods (other than obesity because that's our own fault for letting gluttony and sloth get to us)?

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Lately, I've been reading about obesity and low - carb diets because my brother Rick lost more than fifty pounds on the Atkins diet and is now a lot healthier.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

The film acknowledges that first lady Michelle Obama raised the issue of childhood obesity, but it pretty much declares her «Let's Move» campaign a failure because it focuses on exercise and because she has worked with food companies rather than opposing them.

DeCicco - Skinner and her colleagues assumed cancer proliferation would benefit from higher - than - normal BMI because of the epidemiological link between obesity and cancer.

This view of the protein makes both biological and evolutionary sense, Campfield says, because starvation is a greater threat to most organisms than are the long - term health effects of obesity.

«For an individual, it's probably still worse to smoke than be obese,» because smoking causes many acute health problems whereas obesity takes longer to corrode someone's health.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

The researchers — who examined data on more than 8,000 children up to age 14 — did find that breast - feeding was linked to a reduced risk of obesity and hyperactivity and measures of higher intelligence, but that breast advantage evaporated once they looked at families where one child was breast - fed and one wasn't (my exact situation — my older son got the breast while the younger one had to settle for formula because I had low supply).

«Our ancestors ate this way and didn't have many of the chronic diseases we do, but that doesn't mean the food they ate is the reason why; drawing that conclusion would be like saying we live three times longer than our Paleolithic ancestors because we eat fast food,» says Christopher Ochner, MD, research associate at the New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center at St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals.

Yes, it is true that some severely obese individuals have been documented to survive fasts much longer than 60 days, but only because their extreme obesity was also associated with greater underlying lean body mass (LBM) to begin with.

The energy balance model diverts responsibility back to the consumer because conventional wisdom says the spike in obesity is the result of people consuming more foods than ever before.

The energy balance model also diverts responsibility back to the consumer because conventional wisdom says that the spike in obesity and diet - related disease is the result of people consuming more foods than ever before.

In fact, in a study of 99,000 men and women followed over 30 years, people who average two homemade meals per day have a 13 % lower chance of diabetes than people who have fewer than six homemade meals per week.1 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/homemade-meals-may-help-reduce-type-2-diabetes-risk/; You lose weight over time, because out - of - home eating is associated with becoming overweight and obesity.2 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24499144; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25963602 When you dine with friends and are distracted, you eat as much as 35 percent more.3 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7826053; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11470720; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16757007 Yes, it sucks.

Dr. Lee points out that the productivity losses in the study were based on median wage — and that if a person makes a higher - than - average salary, they're likely to lose even more because of obesity - related problems.

The findings were baffling, because Latinos are burdened with all kinds of health risks: less education, lower income, more obesity than native - born whites.

There can be other causes of obesity but in most cases cats become obese because they are eating more calories than they can use.

So if you feel like your dog is growing slower than that, do not decide on feeding him more than the desired serving because it can lead to obesity which can actually cause harm to your dog's joints.

The Mandometer ® method is revolutionary because it ignores the standard approaches for treatment of eating disorders and obesity, focusing instead on eating behavior rather than on psychological issues in the case of eating disorders, or which specific foods are to be eaten in the case of obesity.

In the case of ewba, the rationale for engagement with Aboriginal people was partly because of the higher than average population of Aboriginal people in Community A. However, considering the higher rates of overweight and obesity in Australian Aboriginal people, and an equity approach which seeks to give attention to those who suffer the highest disparities in health [52], it would follow that considering how the needs and preferences of Aboriginal people will be met in all phases of a CBOPI from planning to evaluation (not just those with higher than average Aboriginal populations) is vital.