Sentences with phrase «to obesity»

In 2008, researchers in Quebec reviewed a stack of studies to find what they called «unsuspected determinants of obesity.»

Increased concerns about health and wellness, along with research linking sodas to obesity and health problems, have driven the drop.

According to research by the International Journal of Obesity, a cold body's thermoreceptors activate Brown adipose tissue (BAT), known as «good fat,» which in turn burns white fat, «bad fat,» to produce heat.

He is concerned about the issue of childhood obesity in the U.S., and raced to raise $ 1 million for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, which helps schools develop and improve programs focused on food and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donations).

Novo is advancing its clinical study of its next big hope in treating obesity: semaglutide, a new drug in the so - called GLP - 1 category which imitates an intestinal hormone that stimulates the production of insulin.

In each analysis, we controlled for other risk factors for the outcome, including smoking, obesity, and comorbid conditions.

This keeps your body moving and active so that you lower your risk of heart disease and obesity.

Danish pharma company Novo Nordisk (nvo), best known for its insulin - based treatments for diabetes, said Tuesday it's going to shift its focus slightly to fighting obesity, one of the primary causes of that disease.

Superficial, distant, and less than meaningful relationships can lead to feelings of insecurity and loneliness, which can increase your risk of illness and death just as much as obesity, alcoholism, and smoking.

«Very thin men, conversely, are punished relative to their average - weight peers, and men are rewarded for gaining weight until the point of obesity,» explain Judge and Cable of their findings.

In a research and strategy update, Novo said it will initiate a phase 3 clinical trial program with once - weekly subcutaneous semaglutide in obesity in the first half of 2018.

Michelle Obama took on childhood obesity and other projects.

According to a study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, artificial sweeteners have been linked to obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease.

This year, the United States ranked No. 18 — falling four spots from last year and five from two years ago — «in part because of the ongoing epidemics of obesity, substance abuse and untreated depression,» according to World Happiness Report co-editor and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs.

As instances of obesity, diabetes, cancer and other chronic illnesses are on the rise, a subculture where eating less is prized can seem farfetched and against the grain.

Global warming and obesity are problems of global proportions.

The consumption of added sugar in foods and beverages has been linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes.

They're really heavily intertwined with our metabolism and have an enormous impact on our processing of food and on our health and disease and they've been linked to many different diseases to obesity, to diabetes, to heart disease, and even to cancer and Urological disease.

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.

Salt Lake City residents have easy access to financial services, cultural and recreational amenities, and low rates of diabetes and obesity.

The Center for Human Sleep Science found that getting less than seven hours of sleep a nigh can be linked to medical ailments like cancer, obesity and poor mental health.

A growing collection of research suggests that excess added sugar in the diet has strong links to cancer, and is already strongly tied with obesity, diabetes, and heart and other deadly cardiovascular diseases.

But outlining the problem (high levels of obesity) and its solution (motivating people to be more active and eat more healthily) is important.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, calories from added sugars in soda are down 39 percent since 2000 as Americans worry about skyrocketing obesity rates.

American fast - food chains have also been wrestling with a wider range of health concerns at home, as many consumers are changing domestic eating habits in response to an ongoing obesity epidemic.

Lately there seems to be a lot of dialogue and articles written about getting up and moving, the importance of exercise for health, stress reduction and the specific benefits of standing up while working (fairly atrocious if you ask me) and the omnipresent topic of obesity.

And so the resulting sales pitch tends to be as garbled as the public's own feelings about issues surrounding weight and obesity.

The incidence of many illnesses, including diabetes and high blood pressure, increases with lack of sleep, and a growing amount of research suggests that poor sleep may be a key factor in the rising rates of obesity.

With most modern pet foods being highly processed, particularly with corn gluten, pets are also seeing upticks in issues such as obesity and diabetes.

With its traditional insulin treatments in the firing line due to U.S. price pressure, Novo Nordisk is pinning hopes for growth on new obesity drugs and a once - weekly injection and tablet version of its semaglutide drug.

«Our teenagers consume nearly a bathtub of sugary drinks each year on average, fuelling a worrying obesity trend in this country,» Public Health Minister Steve Brine said.

An earlier Italian study (ahem) clears eating pasta of any link to obesity.

This technique has been used, as Arnold reports, to trace the progress of cancers, advance our understanding of obesity and diabetes, and prove that brain cells continue to form through a human being's lifetime.

«When your brain is firing off these synapses of anger, you're weakening your immune system; you're raising your blood pressure, increasing your risk of heart disease, obesity and diabetes, and a plethora of other negative ailments,» he says.

Claiming that your new fitness app is going to «solve the obesity problem in the U.S and save millions of lives» will likely be met with sneers by skeptical journalists.

They also saw an obesity rate of 32.6 % and a diabetes rate of 12.2 %.

Meanwhile, long - term health effects include increased risk for diseases like hypertension, diabetes, depression and obesity.

Suggested new targets include such things as mandated biodiversity, worldwide employment equity, more female politicians, lower obesity and greater Internet access.

Prior to Obamacare's passage, many insurers were free to deny people with pre-existing conditions (including some as common as diabetes, heart disease, epilepsy, obesity, or even arthritis) access to any kind of insurance and could hike rates once a customer got sick.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating patient deaths following an obesity - fighting procedure which involves the use of balloons that fill up inside the stomach and remain for about six months.

Obesity research at Brown University found similar trends.

Nevertheless, Rhinehart believes his invention could one day be an antidote to world hunger and obesity.

While most of us have higher cortisol levels in the morning, different people's hormones rise and fall at different times, and medications like hormonal birth control pills and medical conditions like obesity can influence when an individual's levels are highest.

Before China started buying lamb flaps, they were mostly sold to South Pacific islands for around $ 1 per kilogram, and were blamed for contributing to an obesity epidemic.

As for the relationship between skipping breakfast and obesity?

And brewers risk finding themselves on the «receiving end of anti-drinking campaigns focused on fighting obesity,» much like the soda industry has, Stirling says.

This year, those social issues included the obesity epidemic in the U.S., U.S. veterans» affairs and the rising popularity of technology - driven education.

And plenty of studies indicate that skipping breakfast correlates with obesity.

Or McDonald's #McDStories that ended up being less about the local food producers it was meant to put a spotlight on and more about obesity and bandaids in burgers?

While Kallyope hasn't given too many specifics about its drug programs, the company's initial focus will be in metabolic conditions, like obesity, as well as neurologic conditions like Parkinson's disease.