According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in five US school-age children and young people ages 6 to 19 years suffers from obesity, a tripling of such numbers since the 1970s. For individual children, ...
Oct 9, 2018
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A healthy home environment could help offset children's genetic susceptibilities to obesity, according to new research led by UCL.
Oct 9, 2018
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New research presented at this year's annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Berlin, Germany, reveals that weight gain between the age of 10 and adulthood is associated with type 2 ...
Oct 2, 2018
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When assessing whether preschoolers are overweight, health professionals should use other measures such as waist-to-height ratio in addition to the Body Mass Index (BMI). A study published in the Springer Nature-branded journal ...
Sep 25, 2018
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(HealthDay)—In a Chinese adult population (ages 35 to 80 years), there is a positive association between body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure (BP), according to a study published online Aug. 17 in JAMA Network Open.
Aug 29, 2018
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Swinburne researchers are part of a new wave of health professionals challenging our perception of weight and health. While it's long been thought that fatness is unhealthy, and skinniness is healthy, research shows this ...
Aug 22, 2018
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People with prediabetes who go to bed later, eat meals later and are more active and alert later in the day—those who have an "evening preference"—have higher body mass indices compared with people with prediabetes who ...
Aug 15, 2018
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(HealthDay)—A responsive parenting intervention initiated in early infancy can reduce body mass index (BMI) z score; however, a 36-month multicomponent behavioral intervention does not change BMI trajectory, according to ...
Aug 8, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Obesity is associated with worse outcomes in skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents receiving post-acute care for hip fracture, according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American ...
Aug 2, 2018
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Your body mass index (BMI) indicates whether you are within a healthy weight range based on your height. Having a higher BMI – meaning more weight relative to height – can increase your risk of developing heart disease, ...
Jul 31, 2018
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